A. Samuel

A major scheme to strengthen the 160-year-old Britannia bridge, which spans the Menai Strait, has started today. A joint effort by Network Rail, the Welsh Assembly Government and the UK Highway Agency, the investment of nearly £4m will help...

London Midland’s IT department has raised almost £2,000 by leaving their razors on the bathroom shelf for a month and growing moustaches - all in the name of charity.  The department took on the challenge of growing facial...

OTN Systems, the global market leader for fibre optic-based telecommunications backbone systems in metros, has been awarded several multi-million Euro contracts from various Chinese metro lines. The newest OTN Systems flagship product OTN-X3M, with a transport capacity...

The 'Cooling the Tube' programme has been established to minimise the problem of increasing temperatures across the London Underground network, which can surpass 30°C at some locations through the summer months. As part of this programme,...

Engineers building the Metrolink line to Rochdale have installed a 52 metre long viaduct in the town, which will carry trams over the Manchester-Leeds railway when the new Metrolink opens next year. This major construction project, which involved 400 tonnes...

London Midland’s innovative Stourbridge branch line service has recorded 99.5 % reliability in 2010 while providing nearly seventy thousand services for passengers. In the first full calendar year of operation for its lightweight, low-energy Class 139 railcars, the proportion...

Poems on the Underground have been delighting customers on the Tube for a quarter of a century. Judith Chernaik, the brainchild behind the idea of displaying poems in Tube carriages, continues to choose the verses with her colleagues...

Passengers on the Boston to Skegness line are to benefit from the second phase of track improvement works along the route – as well as improvements at Skegness station. Work begins this weekend on the next phase...

Statement by CEO Roelof van Ark: On behalf of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, I commend Robert "Bob" Doty for his service to the development of a statewide high-speed train system linking San Francisco to Los Angeles. As the Director of...

The annual Channel Tunnel bi-national safety exercise will take place during the night of Saturday 8 to Sunday 9 January 2011 and will involve emergency services from both the UK and France. This is the only initiative on this...