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Network Rail
09:57, 24 FEB 2022
Global Centre of Rail Excellence scheme gets £50m funding boost
Welsh Government
The Welsh Government has provided a £50m loan for the project to Powys Council
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Okehampton to Exeter railway line to restart daily services after nearly 50 years
Transport
A regular service was withdrawn in 1972
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Wales is being 'robbed' on rail investment to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds
Transport
If rail was devolved there would have been far greater rail investment says the Wales Governance Centre
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Work starts on £80m upgrade of Plymouth railway station
Transport
Construction and relocation work under way on main concourse and in office tower block as shops, offices, car park, hotel and medical campus will be created
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What is the £150m Global Centre of Rail Excellence scheme in South Wales
Transport
The Welsh Government project aims to create a world first in testing trains and rail infrastructure at the same facility
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£9m South Bank drainage scheme starts in April as next steps towards Able Marine Energy Park taken
Construction
Flood protection works have been awarded £4.3 million of government cash as part of last summer's Getting Building Fund
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Fresh calls to reopen Leicester to Northampton passenger line which closed under the 1960s Beeching cuts
Transport
Calls to reverse cuts drawn up in 1963 Beeching Report which saw almost a third of passenger tracks taken out of service
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Upgrade on Sheffield to Manchester rail line secures £137m funding package
Transport
The Hope Valley line also serves a number of villages in the Peak District
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º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government commits funding to assess new rail projects in Wales
Boris Johnson
It ha also launched a consultation on cutting Air Passenger Duty on internal flights
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RSK Group in Cheshire buys Loughborough's CR Civil Engineering
Ministry of Defence
CRC has a turnover approaching £40 million and employs 250 staff working on motorway, rail and airfield projects
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Housing Secretary signs off £130m Birmingham regen project
Birmingham City Council
Eutopia Homes wins appeal after city planning chiefs throw out scheme to build 480 homes amid concerns over planning rail infrastructure work
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Bristol businesses to be consulted on Temple Quarter regeneration which could create thousands of jobs and homes
Construction
A new 'vision' for the transformation of the city's enterprise zone and St Philip’s Marsh has been laid out
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Swansea Station is getting a new platform
Network Rail
Work is under way on a £7.1m new and longer platform four
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New Kirkby train station plans get £66m boost as proposals move a step closer
North West
Proposals include 300 park and ride spaces as well as a bus interchange and step-free access
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The 16 women leading Britain's top firms in the FTSE 350 in 2021
International Women's Day
For every female boss in the FTSE 350 there are more than 20 men - these are the women leading the way
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Network Rail name new MD for its Wales & Western rail network
Economic Development
Michelle Handforth will take up her new role this summer
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348 apartment build-to-rent development gets underway in Nottingham
Construction
£55.6m Queens Road scheme will meet growing trend of professionals and graduates moving into city centres
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Global Centre of Rail Excellence project in South Wales expected to get £30m Budget funding boost
The Budget
Rishi Sunak is expected confirm investment of near £100m in projects aimed at boosting the Welsh economy with a low carbon focus
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£27m East Yorkshire steel fabrication company buy-out as Severfield makes tracks to rail industry
Engineering
DAM Structures acquired in county deal by FTSE-listed Severfield Plc
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South Humber Bank's direct Manchester Airport rail link review met with muted responses from region
Transport
Chamber, LEP and pan-Humber place marketing board all tight-lipped ahead of March 10 consultation deadline
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Manchester Airport link at risk for South Humber Bank as rail bosses tackle city's train congestion
Transport
New consultation proposes switching destination to Liverpool with Piccadilly change from May 2022
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Cornwall's Carbis Bay 'G7' line to St Ives reopens after £3million upgrade
South West
In 2019 more than 660,000 journeys were made on the stunning coastal stretch between Carbis Bay to St Ives - Cornwall's tourist summer hotspot
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Wanted: East Midlands Railway apprentice engineers
Transport
They will help a team of more than 250 maintenance staff look after a fleet of more than 100 trains
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Dawlish £80million sea wall work set to reach new phase
South West
The iconic 'wavewalker' platform will complete its pile work in the next couple of weeks
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