Major Projects

Network Rail’s recovery programme to stabilise performance between Reading and London Paddington has reached half time. Paul Clifton joins the project leaders.

There’s been much debate about the high cost of both heavy rail investment and new light rail lines. But how about combining the two?

Out of sight in the London clay, engineers have built a five-mile tunnel for HS2. Tom Edwards goes underground.

A small project at Euston could lead to bigger things… and help to build a legacy. Tom Edwards reports.

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Richard Foster presents an overview of how the railway responded to the nation’s First and Second World Wartime needs.

Why is HS2 ‘so expensive’, and is it being ‘gold-plated’? Mel Holley investigates.

Ian Yeowart was instrumental in setting up the Grand Central Railway he's still submitting successful applications. He talks to Peter Plisner.

Unfunded Access for All works at Britain’s stations has left Department for Transport ministers ‘considering their options’. Mel Holley unpicks the detail.

Andrew Mourant reports on the growing optimism for reopening to passenger services the rail link between Taunton and Bishops Lydeard.

It got the go-ahead late last year to resume turning London Euston into the southern terminus of HS2. But, as Chris Howe discovers, the work never stopped…