BOSSES at a Bolton[1] blast door maker say a new £36m contract for the HS2 rail line will generate 50 new jobs.Mark Thurston, chief executive for the high-speed rail bid, visited the Nelson Street factory of Booth Industries, where 303 safety doors for…
The HS2 link from Cheshire to Manchester was recently rubber-stamped by the Government as part of its integrated rail plan.
While many of the promised plans for high speed rail in other parts of the north were scrapped, Crewe[1] is still planned to get…
For many of us living in Wales, long train journeys are the norm.
This is largely the result of historic under-investment in Welsh railways by the UK Government and the way in which responsibility for the network in Wales is managed.
Over the eight yea…
There’s no doubt that the UK’s railways have been hit hard by the pandemic. Recent figures[1] from the Office of Rail and Road show a huge drop in passenger numbers, from April 2020 to March 2021. Over that period numbers fell at some previously busy s…
Boris Johnson has been challenged about Wales being excluded from the biggest-ever rail infrastructure investment in the UK[1].
WalesOnline recently exposed the sheer scale to which Wales was losing out because of the UK Government’s decision to class …
A statement issued by the UK Government demonstrates how they simply don’t understand the sheer extent of how badly Wales is missing out from a lack of HS2 funding — and why people here are angry at being short-changed.
WalesOnline recently published[1…
The headlines after the UK government’s latest High Speed 2 rail announcement were largely critical: ‘Deliver what you promised’, they demanded.
Boris Johnson’s administration was reshaping its promises, scrapping the eastern leg of HS2 from Birmingham…
(CNN) — The romance of rail travel has seduced many travelers over the years. Sitting in a train as it slips quietly out of a city, along tunnels and viaducts, sneaking glimpses of people’s backyards before rolling into open countryside is one of life’…
A joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Vinci (BBV) has begun preparations for an innovative ‘box-slide’ railway bridge to carry High Speed 2 trains over the M42 in North Warwickshire – the first of its kind in the UK.
The ‘Marsdon box’ structure …
In the newly-published Integrated Rail Plan, ministers said they would seek parliamentary approval for the HS2 Phase 2B Western and Eastern Legs, as well as the Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) programme, using a series of hybrid bills.
The UK parliament…
Leeds Council has demanded an urgent review of the development protection that remains in place along the former HS2 eastern leg route, which was scrapped last week.
The local authority is understood to want the opportunity to develop land in the Yorks…
Turner & Townsend has secured a two year contract to provide project controls services for the Network Rail Crewe programme, which will connect the existing rail network with HS2 in the future.
The company has been asked to ensure effective control…
Orion High Speed Logistics, the parcels and light loads division of Rail Operations Group, has confirmed departure this morning of their much anticipated high-speed service, bringing mass-market parcels traffic back to the British railway scene. A morn…
HS2 was meant to be a brand new Y-shaped line first going from London to Birmingham and then branching west to Manchester and east to Leeds.
The government’s Integrated Rail Plan which was published on Thursday, November 18, set out plans to axe the pl…