We’ve just completed a big project in the Clacton-on-Sea area in Essex to bring its signalling system into the 21st century. The vital upgrade will give you more reliable journeys. How? Our team has installed a new signalling system, which gives trains the information they need to move forward safely. It’s replaced the Victorian equipment, … Continued
We just completed more than £100m of vital railway upgrades and maintenance projects over the this Easter weekend to give you better journeys across Britain. Our teams carried out 600 projects around the country between Friday 2 and Monday 5 April 2021. They included vital improvements to give you better and more reliable train services for … Continued
We look at our bank holiday plans in London as we count down to our huge Easter railway works. They range from essential improvements to signalling to keep your journeys safe and reliable to work that will help us get ready for a brand-new station for the capital. Our Easter works around Britain will take … Continued
Communities in Devon will soon benefit from the reopening of the railway between Okehampton and Exeter as part of the Government’s ‘Restoring your Railway’ initiative. Following confirmation of government funding, we expect services to restart later this year on the 14-mile stretch of railway – known as the Dartmoor Line. You’ll be able to catch … Continued
This Easter bank holiday our team will work hard to make more progress on the £1.2bn East Coast Upgrade. The huge project will give you more trains and quicker journeys along the East Coast Main Line, which runs from London to Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. Our Easter works around Britain will … Continued
It’s 11,000 tonnes, weighs more than the Eiffel Tower and is a first for UK engineering. Last month we pushed this huge curved concrete box under one of Britain’s busiest railway lines, near Peterborough. Actually, we pushed this concrete box inside guide tunnels – at just 150cm an hour. What for and why? This exciting … Continued
Better rail links in the North of England, reconnecting Oxford and Cambridge and a big upgrade for the Transpennine Railway … all in our North West and Central region. We’ve carried out lots of improvements for your journeys in this region since we launched big plans last summer to bring our people closer to the … Continued
We’re busy strengthening the near the railway around Britain, including in Cumbria, where a £3.5m investment will lead to more reliable journeys for passengers. What causes landslips? How do we try to prevent them? And how do we respond when they happen? Landslips happen on the railway when soil, rocks and earth fall on to … Continued
The railway has undergone huge changes in response to coronavirus, to keep vital services running for key workers and freight operators and ensure people using the railway and working on it can stay far enough apart from each other. However, we are doing everything we can to continue our day to day work for everybody in … Continued
We’re working hard to improve the railway in the Bristol area to give you better journeys. Our Bristol Rail Regeneration project will mean better services and connectivity. We’re providing this by installing new track, signals and an extra railway line. Removing a bottleneck in Bristol is an important part of this work. We’re improving a … Continued