Category: Network Rail
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York’s oldest railway structure to be refurbished into brass band HQ
Mike Stancliffe, Network Rail’s principal development manager, said: “This Queen Street site was historically associated with the development of the railways and is now a focus of educational, sporting and recreational activities associated with the York Railway Institute, so this site is well-suited to re-house the band practice room. View the original article and our…
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Network Rail fined £3.75m after two track worker deaths
Network Rail has been fined £3.75m and ordered to pay costs of £175,000 after the deaths of two track workers in 2019. The rail infrastructure operator pleaded guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, which followed an investigation and prosecution by industry regulator the Office of Rail and…
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Refurbishment of London’s iconic Hungerford Bridge begins
Network Rail kicked off works to refurbish the 161-year-old Hungerford railway bridge on Saturday (18 January). The structure takes trains over the River Thames between the South Bank, near Waterloo, and London Charing Cross station. The project, which will be carried out in two phases, involves engineers preparing and painting the bridge, testing the truss…
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Video | Balfour partnership upgrades track in narrow Victorian tunnel
The Central Rail Systems Alliance – a partnership between Network Rail, Balfour Beatty, Atkins and TSO – has completed a complex track renewal through a narrow Victorian railway tunnel on the West Coast Main Line. Engineers began working on New Year’s Eve to replace 400m of railway line through the Northchurch Tunnel between Berkhamsted and…