The North Tyneside Steam Railway, along with the Stephenson Steam Railway at North Shields in County Durham, is gearing up for its end-of-season festival.
HS2 completes 320-metre-long Westbury viaduct
Engineers working on the HS2 project have put the finishing touches to a major viaduct that will carry high-speed trains across a floodplain of the River Great Ouse near Brackley. Set low in the landscape to the east of the town, the 320-metre-long Westbury viaduct was built using an unusual ‘double composite’ approach inspired by […]
HS2 completes 320-metre-long Westbury viaduct
Engineers working on the HS2 project have put the finishing touches to a major viaduct that will carry high-speed trains across a floodplain of the River Great Ouse near Brackley. Set low in the landscape to the east of the town, the 320-metre-long Westbury viaduct was built using an unusual ‘double composite’ approach inspired by […]
RIA publishes checklist to test coherence of the UK’s rail strategies
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has published A Checklist for Rail Strategies, a practical framework designed to help Government, Great British Railways (GBR), devolved authorities and industry test whether the UK’s growing family of rail, transport, and place strategies work together as a coherent, deliverable system. As GBR is established, an expanding suite of national, […]