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Laing O’Rourke, the international engineering and construction group, has today announced that in a three-way joint venture with leading Chinese contractors Hsin Chong and Paul Y, it has secured a £260m rail infrastructure contract as part of the construction...

12 January marked one month since the launch of the high-speed Allegro train service between St Petersburg and Helsinki. In their first month, Allegro trains transported over 23,000 passengers. During the New Year holidays, average seat occupancy was over...

Once upon a time, there was a railway bridge in Llantwit Major that carried the two tracks of the Vale of Glamorgan line over a narrow residential single-lane carriageway. Originally constructed in 1896, Eagleswell Road underbridge had a span...

In her delicious north-east accent, the elderly lady waiting for her train at Seaham exclaimed, “Oh, a’ve ernly just nerticed tha’ signal’s gone.” She was referring to the prominent cantilevered semaphore that had graced the end of the Up...

I had my first encounter with Birmingham’s Moor Street Station in the early 1970s when, as a very green junior civil engineer with British Rail, I was given the job of gauging its terminal platforms in preparation for the...

DB Schenker has accepted a new fleet of 12 wagons from Nottinghamshire based manufacturer WH Davis to be used on rail freight services for Tarmac, the UK's largest quarrying company and leading supplier of construction materials. The...

South West Trains passengers will welcome the start of the second phase of a £1.4 million programme to improve Honiton station. This project, financed by South West Trains, Devon County Council, Network Rail and the National Station Improvement Programme...

Of the many truisms of times past, two came readily to mind recently. One is that training was carried out in a hut ‘round the back of the offices’. It was delivered earnestly and competently, but in rather spartan...

Container shipper, DFDS, is one of the first to sign a contract with GBRf and Europorte Channel to haul a mixed goods multi-modal train from Daventry through the Channel Tunnel to France and then on to Novarro in Northern Italy....

BBMV, an integrated London-based joint venture comprising Balfour Beatty, ALPINE BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction, announces today it has been awarded the £235 million Whitechapel and Liverpool Street Station Tunnels contract, as part of the Crossrail project. Connecting...