A massive 11,000 tonne curved concrete box is to be pushed under the East Coast Main Line (ECML) in a first for UK engineering. The structure, which weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, is being installed in a painstaking nine-day operation as part of the £1.2 billion East Coast upgrade. Related articles:

HS2 may now be under construction, but the debate about it continues in no uncertain terms. The problem with HS2 is that it is quite simple to make a case for or against the idea. AFTER more than ten years of discussion, work is finally underway on Phase 1 of

A TUNNEL which will take a railway under the East Coast Main Line near Peterborough will be ‘pushed into place’ at the rate of 1.5 metres an hour, said Network Rail. The engineering feat will be a first in the UK, and involves pushing an 11,000 tonne curved concrete box under

Crossrail has introduced an innovative way to give the public a tour around the Elizabeth line station. From January 6, Crossrail has released a 360 degree virtual website tour of the new Farringdon station. Click here to take a look: https://360.crossrail.co.uk/far/ The tour is made up of 21 panoramic 360 degree images

THE transport minister responsible for HS2 has dismissed suggestions that HS2 should be cancelled, along with an allegation that the government ordered work on Phase 1 between London and Birmingham to start early last year to ‘bail out’ the construction industry. Giving evidence to the Commons Transport Committee, Andrew Stephenson said

Britain’s best-selling rail title The Railway Magazine is back for another month of award-winning photos, news, features and exclusives from the rail industry, past and present. This month’s The Railway Magazine covers doubts cast over HS2 Eastern leg, plus Tier 4 chaos on the railways. Here’s what is coming up in the January

Photo: Rail Delivery Group Rail operators are “working closely” with the Government to ensure adequate rail services throughout England’s fresh national COVID-19 lockdown. It comes as a rail operator announced it is to suspend all its services for the next two months in what it described as a “hugely disappointing” start to

Photos: Bob Sweet The Severn Valley Railway has welcomed back the overhauled boiler of its flagship locomotive 4930 Hagley Hall, following extensive works at Northern Steam Engineering. The return of the boiler marks 18 months of work by Northern Steam Engineering, who previously built a brand new tender tank for Hagley Hall

OPEN access operators Grand Central and Hull Trains are withdrawing their services in response to the new lockdown in England. Grand Central says it plans to ‘hibernate’ services to Sunderland and Bradford from 9 January until at least 1 March. Hull Trains will also withdraw all its services from 9 January

TRAIN operators have started to react to the new national lockdown announced by the Prime Minister last night by reviewing their services again. GWR had already introduced an amended timetable in late December to respond to higher than usual levels of staff absent or self-isolating, and lower demand from changes to