Infrastructure
£43m capacity expansion for Peterborough station
A £43m upgrade of Peterborough station to improve facilities and accommodate longer trains has been announced by Network Rail. The scheme includes platform lengthening, two new platforms, the footbridge extended and lifts installed. Work...
Infrastructure
Government plans £50bn infrastructure boost
The government is planning to make housing and infrastructure the centrepiece of a £50 billion growth plan that it will unveil later this month.Chancellor George Osborne yesterday said that he accepted the need for the government to go further...
Infrastructure
MPs back high speed rail linking London, Midlands and North
The House of Commons transport committee said a high speed rail network, beginning with a line between London and the West Midlands, could provide a "step change" in UK rail services. But the committee's approval came...
Infrastructure
BAA still hopes for third Heathrow runway
The Labour party rang the political death knell for Heathrow expansion yesterday by joining the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in declaring that building a new landing strip is "off the agenda". Shadow transport secretary, Maria Eagle...
Infrastructure
Network Rail picks six for £750m civils framework
Contractors Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall and Carillion have been named amongst six chosen for Network Rail’s £750m mixed works framework.The framework, which combines signalling track and other civils work, is split in to five regions and is known as...
Infrastructure
High Speed 2 ‘fundamentally flawed’ say Tory MPs
Conservative Transport Group says HS2 route should avoid open countryside and connect directly with Heathrow Tory MPs have urged the Government to abandon its current plans for High Speed 2. The Conservative Transport Group said the...
Infrastructure
Green light for £25m Northampton station
West Northamptonshire Development Corporation is now seeking funding for BDP-designed railway station.A plans for a £25m station scheme in Northampton have been approved. The castle station would form the ’Station Gateway’ which could see the...
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