Infrastructure

It was an unlikely venue for a chance meeting that would change popular music forever – the less than salubrious surroundings of a dingy nightclub beneath a Liverpool fruit warehouse. It was here of course, in the Cavern Club, that Brian Epstein, a local record-store owner and music columnist, first encountered The Beatles. The rest […]

Passengers have been warned to avoid travelling into Euston station across the August bank holiday as vital HS2 work takes place.

Alstom has inaugurated a repair centre in Astana, Kazakhstan - its first in the country.

As a result of replacing rails, sleepers and signalling, train speeds on this section have been increased from 50km/h to 90km/h.

Britain's Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, have said they will work together to progress Crossrail 2. In a joint announcement this morning, Chris Grayling gave his backing to the project but said it needed...

Downer York Joint Venture - a partnership of Downer EDI Works and York Civil - is to deliver the City Tram Extension Project in Adelaide. The one-kilometre East End extension includes four new stops and will serve the city's new Riverbank precinct....

US officials have broken ground on the long-awaited Caltrain electrification project. Work to electrify the 84-kilometre Caltrain rail corridor between San Francisco and San Jose in California - known as the Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project (PCEP) - will now begin. A groundbreaking ceremony...

The UK government has abandoned plans to electrify the railway between Cardiff and Swansea, the Midland Main Line north of Kettering and the line between Windermere and Oxenholme in favour of bi-mode, or 'alternative-fuel', trains.

A consortium comprised of Astaldi, FCC Construccion, Salcef and Thales has been awarded two contracts by the Romanian National Railway Company.

The UK government has revealed its finalised route for the final two phases of HS2. Notable changes include adopting the new 'M18/Eastern route' between Derbyshire and West Yorkshire and proposals for a new hub station in Crewe. HS2 had originally proposed...