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This screengrab shows AIVR’s automatic classification of lineside equipment - in this case, a signal and a location cabinet. ONE BIG CIRCLE/NETWORK RAIL.

Feature

The tech that takes the legwork out of basic visual track inspections

Philip Haigh joins one of Network Rail’s video inspection units, to learn how the technology is improving detection, efficiency and safety.

Engineering 8 Jan

Railvac vacuum excavators in use

News

Huge ‘vacuum cleaners’ cut ballast replacement time

Network Rail engineering teams are deploying industrial-sized ballast excavators on the West Coast main line on four successive weekends in August as part of track upgrades through Stoke-on-Trent.

Infrastructure 9 Aug

Network Rail new track panel being installed

News

Disruption expected this weekend during East Coast Main Line upgrade

Changes planned for LNER, Lumo, Cross Country, TransPennine Express and Northern services as Network Rail replaces track at Darlington.

Track 1 Feb

News

Global Centre of Rail Excellence targets private investors

Investors from around the world are being invited to consider a stake in the business planning to build a £400 million test track and facilities

6 Dec

News

Track and drainage work at Water Orton

Major track alterations and lineside drainage are due to take place at Water Orton (North Warwickshire) and Duddeston (Birmingham) from February 19-27

31 Jan

News

RAIB recommends competency framework after Rowlands Castle near miss

Network Rail Mobile Operations Manager (MOM) involved had not arranged protection from train movements before going on the track.

9 Oct

News

ANALYSIS: The heat is on… and stress management is the key

Why does hot weather still pose the same challenges for our railway, and what is being done to improve things? GARETH DENNIS explains

24 Jul

News

Widening the horizons…

PHILIP HAIGH looks at the history of rail services through King’s Cross, Farringdon and Moorgate

19 Oct

DCRail 31452 and 56303 are stabled as Colas Rail 37099 propels a Crewe-Derby test train into Derby on May 20. PAUL ROBERTSON.

News

£200m track and signalling upgrade at Derby

Network Rail plans a 79-day programme of work at Derby as part of a £200 million track and signalling upgrade in the area.

10 Jul

News

ANIMATION: Crossrail track construction

Video shows how Crossrail's multi-purpose gantries lay sleepers and rail track in their tunnels

16 Dec

News

£14 million Darwen doubling complete

The Network Rail project to double sections of track around Darwen in Lancashire has been completed

8 Sept

Gallery

Walthamstow engineering work

London Underground engineers are halfway through renovations on the Victoria line at Walthamstow.

20 Aug

News

Consortium appointed to deliver increased Waterloo capacity

Contractors will support delivery of extended and re-opened platforms.

18 Mar

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LNER Azuma 800104 and ScotRail Inter7City HST 43145 stand in Aberdeen station. CONRAD LANDIN.

Scottish main line will "end up with discontinuous electrification"

Electrification 14 Jul

Artist's impression of a Class 222 in Lumo colours. LUMO.

FirstGroup explains why Class 222s were "only option" for Lumo Euston-Stirling service

6 Jun

DB Cargo UK 66139 shunts wagons at Cemex's Dallam Freight Depot, Warrington. DAVID STUBBINGS.

16 DB Cargo UK drivers switching to rival

DB Cargo UK 11 Jul

The sliding canal bridge at Keadby has required numerous repairs and maintenance in recent years, including a nine-day closure in February 2024. It failed 16 times between April 2024 and March 2025. NETWORK RAIL.

Repeated bridge failures force TPE to consider diversionary route

TransPennine Express 21 Jul

90021, hauling the 1610 Deepcar-Finsbury Park ‘Last Chance’ charter (which it worked from Doncaster RMT), stands at Peterborough on April 8 2023. The ‘90’ has been acquired by Freightliner from DB Cargo. PIP DUNN.

DB Cargo sells three more Class 90s for reuse

DB Cargo UK 7 Jul

An East Midlands Railway Class 222 approaches Braybrooke on the Midland Main Line. PAUL BIGGS.

Further MML electrification and York capacity projects paused

Midland Main Line 8 Jul

Stored SWR Class 701s and former West Midlands Railway Class 323s at Long Marston. JACK BOSKETT/RAIL.

UK "fails to provide trains people want or like"

Rail Live 2 Jul

Off-lease 221104 passes Wellington as part of a driver training run between Central Rivers TMD and Wrexham. ALISTAIR COX.

All three West Coast Main Line open access bid rejected

Open access 3 Jul

An enforcing regulator that is independent of the government will be needed to protect the interest of sectors such as open access and freight, says one industry source. Colas Rail 70813 passes Plawsworth (near Durham) on the Wast Coast Main Line on September 17 with the 1541 Jarrow Prax to Lindsey Oil Refinery Colas empty bogie tanks. PAUL BIGGS.

Drivers' jobs safe after refinery owners enter administration

Colas Rail 8 Jul

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