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The Top Employers Institute has named London North Eastern Railway (LNER) as a UK top employer for another year. The award recognises LNER for its excellent work in areas including employee health and wellbeing, work environment and performance development. Achieving Top...

Walsh, London’s leading provider of river, road and rail freight solutions, has signed a 20-year agreement with the Port of Tilbury to help to meet the capital’s demand for construction materials in the most sustainable way. As a result, Walsh...

HS2 main contractor EKFB, a joint venture of Eiffage, Kier, Ferrovial and BAM, has appointed Peter Bimson as its new project director. Peter, who previously held the roles of deputy project director and operations director for EKFB, has been appointed...

In a first for UK engineering, an 11,000-tonne curved concrete box has been successfully pushed under the East Coast main line at Werrington near Peterborough. A team from Network Rail and its contractors reached this major milestone in the project...

The new chairman of the Urban Transport Group has been named as Laura Shoaf, the managing director of Transport for West Midlands (TfWM). Previosly the vice-chairman, Laura has over 20 years’ experience leading in urban transport planning in the UK...

A new £29 million Intermodal Rail Freight Terminal, that is being constructed by Winvic Construction for Prologis at its DIRFT intermodal logistics park in Northamptonshire, will feature a bespoke rail traverser, supplied by Mechan. The Sheffield-based rail depot equipment specialist...

A tractor driver has been filmed dumping a tank full of slurry onto the West Coast main line in Cheshire. A member of the public filmed the brazen act at Hartford Station near Northwich in Cheshire on Wednesday 20 January...

Network Rail has released CCTV footage of a woman lying on a level crossing on a live railway to pose for photographs. The clip, of Tidemills level crossing in Sussex, is the latest in a series of dangerous incidents on...

FirstClass Safety & Control, the Essex-based safety control system specialist, which was created following a management buyout of the safety control division of Beck & Pollitzer back in 2017, has been supplying safety control systems for over 20 years. The...

As part of its new action plan for sustainable vegetation management, Network Rail is using cutting-edge technology along Britain’s 20,000-mile rail network, Scientists from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) have used high-resolution imagery from satellites and aircraft...