Engineering - Page 4

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Victoria breakthrough completes Crossrail tunnelling

Crossrail confirms that final tunnel was completed on May 26, ahead of fitting out.

4 Jun

Feature

Electrification apprentices: engineers for the future

Network Rail’s apprenticeships develop the electrification engineers of the future, as PAUL PRENTICE discovers.

Staff and employment 27 May

Feature

Plugging the skills gap for generations

The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is leading the way in recruiting a new generation of railway engineers.

Staff and employment 27 May

News

Network Rail deploys 14,000 strong army to tackle network improvements

Great Eastern, Great Western, Midland and West Coast Main Lines will all be subject of Bank Holiday engineering work

22 May

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Bank Holiday: 14,000 engineers upgrade network

More than 14,000 rail staff worked over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, with work focused on London and the South East and on the West Coast Main Line.

8 May

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Network Rail deploys 14,000 strong workforce over May Day bank holiday weekend

West Coast Main Line and Waterloo among locations that will be worked on.

22 Apr

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NR to ‘live Tweet’ Easter engineering work

Twitter account will track progress of Great Western Main Line work.

31 Mar

Feature

NR’s fight to eradicate engineering overruns

Infrastructure Projects Managing Director FRANCIS PAONESSA talks to PHILIP HAIGH

Engineering 31 Mar

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New approach to railway apprenticeships

The government has announced new set of learning standards for rail engineering apprentices.

13 Mar

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Network Rail marks ten years of apprenticeship scheme

Network Rail’s Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme reached its ten year milestone on March 12.

13 Mar

News

LU promises 36 trains per hour for Victoria line

Summer work will allow a train every 100 seconds during peak hours.

17 Feb

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NR’s poor contingency plan at fault for Christmas chaos

Regulator says Network Rail did not properly account for the impact of failing to hand back the railway on time.

12 Feb

News

VIDEO: Dawlish - a year on

Time-lapse footage of the repairs to the Dawlish Sea Wall line.

5 Feb

News

Network Rail consults on tram-train chord

Plans for chord to link Sheffield Supertram network and railway are out for consultation.

3 Feb

News

Weekend engineering work begins on GEML

Engineering works begins on the Great Eastern Main Line on weekends from January 31 until March 22.

30 Jan

News

Anglian work for High Output Ballast Cleaner

Network Rail’s High Output Ballast Cleaner (HOBC) has begun work on the Great Eastern Main Line, between Norwich and Stowmarket.

30 Jan

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Network Rail releases report into Christmas engineering overrun

A report into the problems that caused the effective closure of King's Cross and Paddington stations on December 27 has been released.

12 Jan

News

NR chief orders inquiry into festive overruns

Chief Executive Mark Carne orders inquiry into the overrunning engineering during the festive closures

29 Dec

Feature

The hard work continues at Dawlish

RICHARD CLINNICK meets some of Network Rail’s engineers and contractors involved in re-building Dawlish

Engineering 22 Dec

Feature

Aerospace technology on the Tube

STEFANIE BROWNE reports on the winners of the Stephenson Award for Engineering Innovation at RAIL’s National Rail Awards

Engineering 12 Nov