Infrastructure - Page 7

Electrification apprentices: engineers for the future

Network Rail’s apprenticeships develop the electrification engineers of the future, as PAUL PRENTICE discovers.

Firms take stock of the market

The gathering pace of electrification is attracting foreign train manufacturers to eye up the UK market - even if that means they must proceed with caution

A new lease of life for wartime ‘ghost’

STEFANIE BROWNE reports on plans to put Down Street Underground station back on the London map… under a commercial lease

Why electrification? The Network Rail perspective

Network Rail has a plan for the electrification of many routes across the UK, after a gap of a quarter of a century

Focus on collaboration - ABC

What do Alstom, Babcock and Costain bring to the National Electrification Programme? How do they collaborate? PAUL PRENTICE spells out ABC

High-wire act

COLIN PRESTON explains how SYSTRA is conquering the challenges faced in the £742 million Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Queen Street electrification project

Investing in skills

Plugging the skills gap for generations

The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is leading the way in recruiting a new generation of railway engineers.

Inside Three Bridges

Siemens is close to completing its Class 700 maintenance depot at Three Bridges. RICHARD CLINNICK visits the site to examine the work that is taking place

Wonderful Waverley

Much of the work to transform Edinburgh Waverley station is now complete. PAUL PRENTICE details the work that has been done so far, and what happens next

Coming soon…to a Tube station near you?

Manufacturing companies are already discussing their plans for the New Tube For London deal that will bring air-conditioned trains to the Deep Tube

It will be all right on the nightshift

RICHARD CLINNICK meets members of the nightshift team who service trains for four different operators

Sign on for the Neville Hill nightshift

RICHARD CLINNICK spends the night at the busy Leeds depot, and discovers a hive of activity as trains are maintained and prepared

Make haste at Hastings

All parties are agreed that better connectivity from Hastings to London via High Speed 1 is a sound idea. But when will it happen and is it even a done deal?

Hay big spenders!

RICHARD CLINNICK reports on the newly transformed Edinburgh Haymarket, which has earned the station one of the top accolades at RAIL’s National Rail Awards

The hard work continues at Dawlish

RICHARD CLINNICK meets some of Network Rail’s engineers and contractors involved in re-building Dawlish

There’s no place like Holme

STEFANIE BROWNE reports on the Holme Tunnel reconstruction project by Network Rail and AMCO

Manchester: a united city

Manchester Metrolink is expanding, and remains the blueprint for a successful tram network.

Breckland’s signalling strife

The Breckland Line has suffered in recent months, following the introduction of Modular Signalling. But performance is seemingly on the way up.

Reading reborn

Nowhere on the UK railway network is undergoing such a massive transformation as Reading. PAUL BIGLAND visits the station