Infrastructure - Page 2
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Light Rail
Trams offer vital solution to UK’s decarbonisation challenge
UK Tram’s new chairman Steve Edwards discusses the role of light rail in a modern-day successful railway
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Trackside
Green pioneers: NR’s 'big step' to net zero
Nick Brodrick stays up with Network Rail’s 'night owls' to witness the industry’s first ever zero emissions site.
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Electrification
Why £1bn isn't enough for North Wales Main Line electrification
Mel Holley chronicles the halting progress of plans to electrify the North Wales coastal route.
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Infrastructure
ANALYSIS: Managing our earthworks - the task gets harder each year
The derailment at Stonehaven has put the condition of earthworks into sharp focus. GARETH DENNIS examines how weather can have an impact on earthwork resilience
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Trackside
Coping with the foraging of species
STEFANIE BROWNE looks at what is being done to mitigate the problems caused when the presence of ‘creatures great and small’ delay railway enhancement projects
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Signalling
The need for Northern collaboration
TOBY CUTHBERTSON offers RICHARD CLINNICK an insight into the challenges local authorities will face in taking greater control of rail services in the North
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Trackside
Summit Tunnel: from fire to ice
PAUL STEPHEN recalls the day when a derailed freight train caught fire in Summit Tunnel, which has recently chalked up 175 years of continuous use
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Major Projects
You’ve got Mail Rail…again
STEFANIE BROWNE reports as work begins on bringing a secret slice of the capital’s subterranean history into the 21st century
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Trackside
Dover: once more unto a breach…
PAUL STEPHEN examines the engineering challenge that Network Rail faces repairing the sea wall at Dover
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Stations
New-look station will be fit for a queen
Network Rail is about to start remodelling Glasgow Queen Street station, to accommodate electrification and improve the station’s appearance