NETWORK RAIL
-
Port operator criticises ‘short-sighted’ trans-Pennine route upgrade plans
Posted
by
PD Ports, which operates Teesport in Middlesbrough, has criticised the lack of provision for freight growth in Network Rail’s £3 billion trans-Pennine route upgrade. It called the decision to upgrade the 76-mile route between Leeds and Manchester without any provision for freight traffic “unwelcome” and “deeply troubling for the economy and businesses in the North…
-
Mangapps expands its collectionwith former Network Rail Class 31s
Posted
by
THE Mangapps Railway, Essex has acquired two former Network Rail Class 31s – Nos. 31105 (D5523) and 31233 (D5660). The privately owned railway has lost all of its big diesels of Classes 31, 33 and 47 in recent times, after being transferred to new homes with longer operating lines. The Class 31s are in good condition,…
-
Footbridge of the future?
Posted
by
A JOINT entry by Danish and Czech designers beat more than 120 designs from 19 countries to triumph in a competition to create a new generation of passenger footbridges for British stations. Gottlieb Paludan Architects, of Denmark, and Strasky, Husty and Partners, of the Czech Republic, presented a bridge which was judged to have “convincingly…
-
Light at the end of the tunnel in Sevenoaks
Posted
by
A TWO-YEAR, £21million programme of repairs and improvements to Sevenoaks Tunnel in Kent is almost complete. The 150-year-old tunnel is one of the longest in southern England and has long been a source of delays because of its poor condition and flooding, caused by inadequate drainage. However, Network Rail has installed new drainage systems since…
-
Norfolk Broads swing bridges to be replaced by Network Rail?
Posted
by
NETWORK Rail is considering a bid for Government funding to replace four elderly swing bridges on the Norfolk Broads. The bridges at Oulton Broad, Reedham, Somerleyton and Trowse are considered increasingly unreliable, especially in hot weather, and NR does not now open them to water traffic if it suspects they may not close correctly afterwards.…
-
NR hails success of £148million festive engineering programme
Posted
by
MORE than 330 engineering projects took place across Britain over the Christmas and New Year holidays in a £148million programme delivered by 25,000 Network Rail staff and contractors. Projects ranged from major blockades running right through the holiday period to smaller interventions designed to repair or upgrade the railway at important locations. Among the larger…
-
‘Polar Express’ success spurs Vintage Trains to bigger things for 2019
Posted
by
THE incredible success of running ‘Polar Express’ services on the main line between Birmingham Moor Street and Tyseley has led Vintage Trains (VT) to outline an ambitious programme of steam specials and other charter possibilities for 2019. What is also remarkable is just two months before the ‘Polar Express’ specials started, VT was granted its…
-
Poignant farewell to semaphore signals in north Humberside
Posted
by
THE use of semaphore signalling came to an end in north Humberside on November 23 when the old system was finally switched out on the line between Ferriby, Gilberdyke and Saltmarshe. The delayed decommissioning of the old system took place after the passing of the final train that evening. It forms part of Network Rail’s…
-
New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment
Posted
by
LEEDS station will receive an additional platform as part of a £161million investment programme to improve train journeys and the functionality of the station. Current platforms 1-6 are to be lengthened to cater for longer trains, but it is the creation of a new platform 0 in the site of the current long-stay car park…
-
MPs savage “system-wide failures”for last year’s timetable change fiasco
Posted
by
A CROSS-PARTY committee of MPs has severely criticised train operators, Network Rail, the DfT, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and the complex structure of the rail industry in a scathing report on last May’s timetable chaos, which affected around 20% of UK rail users. “The statistics cannot do justice to the severe effects on people’s lives,”…
