Category: Permanent Way

North Devon services to be affected by late March engineering work

Network Rail will carry out essential track renewals, structural surveys and other work on railway lines in North Devon later this month. For a week between Saturday 21 and Sunday 29 March, train services will be affected between Exeter and Barnstaple, and on the Okehampton route, while vital maintenance is completed. The work is needed […]

Network Rail begins next phase of upgrades on Portsmouth Direct Line

Network Rail is continuing its major investment in the Portsmouth Direct Line and will carry out the next phase of signalling and track upgrades later this month. While this work takes place, buses will replace trains between Havant, Fareham and Portsmouth Harbour from Saturday 28 March to Thursday 2 April. This latest phase will see […]

Train services resume between Yeovil Pen Mill and Weymouth after improvement programme

Train services are running again between Yeovil Pen Mill and Weymouth on the Heart of Wessex Line after Network Rail spent the past nine days continuing its upgrade programme for the line. Engineers worked around the clock to strengthen the embankments between Chetnole and Maiden Newton around the Evershot Tunnel. The team cut through soil […]

Passengers warned of disruption ahead of key London Marylebone upgrades

Passengers on the Chiltern Main Line have been warned to check before travelling next weekend (14 and 15 March) as key upgrade work is completed. Engineering teams will be working on a mile-long section of track around West Ruislip station, replacing old rail sleepers with new concrete equivalents, updating track and renewing ballast on the […]

Interim findings show breakthrough in real-time rail adhesion monitoring

Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems UK and Chiltern Railways presented interim findings from their year-long Low Adhesion Monitoring System trial to attendees at this week’s ADHERE (ADHEsion REsearch) Seminar in Birmingham. Developed by Knorr-Bremse and jointly engineered with Chiltern Railways, with support from Angel Trains, the system has been installed on Class 165 unit 165004 – the first in class (FiC) […]

Interim findings show breakthrough in real-time rail adhesion monitoring

Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems UK and Chiltern Railways presented interim findings from their year-long Low Adhesion Monitoring System trial to attendees at this week’s ADHERE (ADHEsion REsearch) Seminar in Birmingham. Developed by Knorr-Bremse and jointly engineered with Chiltern Railways, with support from Angel Trains, the system has been installed on Class 165 unit 165004 – the first in class (FiC) […]

Vital track upgrades between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction planned for Easter

A reduced service will operate between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction over the Easter Weekend, Friday 3 to Monday 6 April, while engineers carry out vital engineering work. Engineers will replace track at London Waterloo used by trains that run towards Reading, Weybridge via Staines, and Windsor & Eton Riverside. Trains for these destinations will […]

Passengers advised of major upgrade work starting this weekend

Passengers are being reminded that a programme of major improvement work is taking place on the East Coast Main Line from this weekend (Saturday 7 March). A range of railway upgrades are planned for various sites between York and Newcastle for four weekends: 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-29 March. There will also be digital signalling […]

Charing Cross and Waterloo East stations to close for 22 days for major upgrades

South Eastern Railway is advising customers of major engineering work taking place this summer which will affect journeys into London between Sunday 26 July and Sunday 16 August 2026. During the 22 days, trains will continue to run, and routes into London will remain open. However, journeys will be different and may take longer, and […]