Infrastructure - Page 5
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Infrastructure
Why are UK rail projects so expensive?
Every major rail project of recent years - HS2, Crossrail, East West Rail, Great Western Electrification Programme and others - has blown its budget and timetable, reducing trust in the industry’s ability to deliver its promises.
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Light Rail
Trams offer vital solution to UK’s decarbonisation challenge
UK Tram’s new chairman Steve Edwards discusses the role of light rail in a modern-day successful railway
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Trackside
Green pioneers: NR’s 'big step' to net zero
Nick Brodrick stays up with Network Rail’s 'night owls' to witness the industry’s first ever zero emissions site.
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Electrification
Why £1bn isn't enough for North Wales Main Line electrification
Mel Holley chronicles the halting progress of plans to electrify the North Wales coastal route.
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Infrastructure
ANALYSIS: Managing our earthworks - the task gets harder each year
The derailment at Stonehaven has put the condition of earthworks into sharp focus. GARETH DENNIS examines how weather can have an impact on earthwork resilience
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Trackside
Coping with the foraging of species
STEFANIE BROWNE looks at what is being done to mitigate the problems caused when the presence of ‘creatures great and small’ delay railway enhancement projects
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Signalling
The need for Northern collaboration
TOBY CUTHBERTSON offers RICHARD CLINNICK an insight into the challenges local authorities will face in taking greater control of rail services in the North
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Trackside
Summit Tunnel: from fire to ice
PAUL STEPHEN recalls the day when a derailed freight train caught fire in Summit Tunnel, which has recently chalked up 175 years of continuous use
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Major Projects
You’ve got Mail Rail…again
STEFANIE BROWNE reports as work begins on bringing a secret slice of the capital’s subterranean history into the 21st century
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Trackside
Dover: once more unto a breach…
PAUL STEPHEN examines the engineering challenge that Network Rail faces repairing the sea wall at Dover
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Stations
New-look station will be fit for a queen
Network Rail is about to start remodelling Glasgow Queen Street station, to accommodate electrification and improve the station’s appearance
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Signalling
The sun sets on Barnetby’s signals
RICHARD CLINNICK presents a selection of images taken during the last days of semaphore signals in greater Lincolnshire
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Stations
Cooling the Tube
PAUL STEPHEN explains how London Underground is tackling its extreme temperature problems
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Stations
A major achievement for Liverpool Street
Liverpool Street station claimed Major Station of the Year prize at National Rail Awards 2015. RICHARD CLINNICK meets the team who have made it such a success
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Light Rail
Sheffield Supertram’s logical progression
RAIL marks 21st anniversary since trams once again graced the city’s streets, and looks at what awaits the pilot vehicle when it arrives in south Yorkshire
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Light Rail
Making Metrolink accessible for all
RAIL reports on how TfGMs work with the Disability Design Reference Group has culminated in it deservedly claiming the NRA Putting Passengers First prize award
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Trackside
Maintenance excellence
STEFANIE BROWNE reports on AMCO Rail’s recent achievements, and how the essential maintenance work of such companies often goes under the radar
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Light Rail
On the trail of the tram-train
RAIL visits Vossloh’s plant in Valencia, and is given a guide tour of the prototype vehicle that is being developed for Sheffield
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Stations
A triumph of effective collaboration
The Reading redevelopment is proof of how several contractors working in harmony can result in a spectacular success
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Stations
Manchester Airport hits new heights
From small beginnings to a position of vital importance in the North West, Manchester Airport is a deserving winner of the NRA 2015 Large Station of the Year
