An investment of £5.46 million in railway improvements in the East Midlands will affect passenger journeys over two weekends. Network Rail teams will be carrying out engineering work in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Saturday 22, and Sunday 23 August. Northern will have rail replacement buses running between Sheffield and Nottingham. East […]
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East Midlands upgrades to affect journeys in August
An investment of £5.46 million in railway improvements in the East Midlands will affect passenger journeys over two weekends. Network Rail teams will be carrying out engineering work in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Saturday 22, and Sunday 23 August. Northern will have rail replacement buses running between Sheffield and Nottingham. East […]
East Midlands upgrades to affect journeys in August
An investment of £5.46 million in railway improvements in the East Midlands will affect passenger journeys over two weekends. Network Rail teams will be carrying out engineering work in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Saturday 22, and Sunday 23 August. Northern will have rail replacement buses running between Sheffield and Nottingham. East […]
East Midlands upgrades to affect journeys in August
An investment of £5.46 million in railway improvements in the East Midlands will affect passenger journeys over two weekends. Network Rail teams will be carrying out engineering work in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Saturday 22, and Sunday 23 August. Northern will have rail replacement buses running between Sheffield and Nottingham. East […]
East Midlands upgrades to affect journeys in August
An investment of £5.46 million in railway improvements in the East Midlands will affect passenger journeys over two weekends. Network Rail teams will be carrying out engineering work in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire on Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Saturday 22, and Sunday 23 August. Northern will have rail replacement buses running between Sheffield and Nottingham. East […]
Peak District and Manchester Victoria rail upgrades this August
Multi-million-pound railway upgrades will take place in Greater Manchester and the gateway to the Peak District from this weekend to improve future journeys for passengers and freight. From 8 to 16 August, Network Rail will be carrying out the work in two locations as part of its ongoing summer improvement projects. On the weekends of […]
Major Lancashire rail renewals completed
Impressive photos and video has been released of a major project to upgrade railway lines between Wigan and Southport. On Saturday 1 August the route reopened for passengers after a five-day closure for the £2 million project in Parbold to improve future journeys. Between Monday 27 and Friday 31 August, Network Rail and its contractor […]
Metro track recycled for new South Tyneside war memorial
A donation of used Metro track will be used to create a new memorial to British soldiers who served in the Far East during World War Two. The track, 10metres in total, will commemorate a North East solider and his fellow prisoners who built the so-called ‘Death Railway’ between Thailand and Myanmar, formerly Burma, from […]
Metro track recycled for new South Tyneside war memorial
A donation of used Metro track will be used to create a new memorial to British soldiers who served in the Far East during World War Two. The track, 10metres in total, will commemorate a North East solider and his fellow prisoners who built the so-called ‘Death Railway’ between Thailand and Myanmar, formerly Burma, from […]
£6 million summer rail upgrades reach halfway point in Sunderland
Significant strides have been made on an extensive £6 million package of rail upgrades being delivered by Network Rail in the Sunderland area. Progress will continue at Sunderland station and several other sites over the weekends of 11-12 and 18-19 July, building on the engineering work carried out over the last two weekends. The work […]