The Railway Magazine
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Public consultation opens for Ely rail capacity
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Network Rail have opened their first round of public consultation for proposals to upgrade the railway in and around Ely and will run for six weeks.
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Rail franchising ‘ended’ as Covid support extended
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The government has announced an end to rail franchising in a major shake-up for the rail network.
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COVID-19 heroes to be honoured with their names on GWR trains
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Community heroes who selflessly helped others during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic will have their names added to the side of Great Western Railway trains in the coming weeks.
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Network Rail and Highways England publish New Station Guidance
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Network Rail and Highways England publish joint document to improve development of parkway stations and help communities access the places most important to them.
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UK railway news round-up
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Rail bosses have been told to do more to crack down on graffiti on the UK rail network. Here’s this week’s round-up.
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HS2’s biggest tunnel site reaches milestone
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HS2 has passed a major milestone at the high speed rail project’s first tunnel site, with the completion of structural work on the temporary pre-cast factory which will produce wall sections for the 10-mile long Chiltern tunnels.
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Grant Shapps calls for crackdown on graffiti across UK railway
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Rail bosses have been told to do more to crack down on graffiti on the UK’s rail network.
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Network Rail publish decarbonisation strategy by 2050
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Network Rail has outlined its vision to decarbonise thousands of miles of rail lines across the UK by 2050.
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UK railway news round-up
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This week, Grand Central scraps plans for a North West route between Blackpool and London due to COVID-19. Plus, a report into the Stonehaven derailment raises questions over the UK railway’s response to climate change.
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Stonehaven report: Climate change impact on railways ‘accelerating’
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A report into the Stonehaven derailment has found that the impact of severe weather events due to climate change is “accelerating faster than our assumptions”.
