Kier Wins Barbour ABI Contracts League
Going from strength-to-strength Kier has come back to be one of the UK’s leading contractors after collecting the highest tally of work for the second month in August. £516m spread between 16 projects was secured by the firm as it strengthened its grip on the 12-month Barbour ABI contracts league. Indeed, Kier have been in
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Should the Queen’s final journey have been by the Royal Train?
The Queen and her modest approach loved to travel on the Royal Train. The train provided a relaxed way for her to comfortably travel, whilst enjoying the scenery and removing the hassle of flying. Queen Victoria was the first Monarch to ride the train in 1841, after which she said she was “quite charmed.” Two
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Blinded by the sun causes rail machines to collide
The accident happened on 2 May 2021 when two road-rail vehicles collided while travelling on the same track towards Wickford station from a location of work near Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex. Network Rail’s principal contractor – J Murphy & Sons was working on overhead lines whilst the accident victims were working for a subcontractor SPL Powerlines
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Amazing New £250m Wellbeing Water Resort for Manchester
Preparation to clear Manchester’s Event City is currently taking place to make way for the UK’s first city-based wellbeing water resort. Peel L&P have submitted plans to demolish the former soccer dome building at Trafford Way on Barton Dock Road. The demolishing plans will then make way for a landmark tropical complex. Demolition works could
Read More£100m Project for Darlington Station
Major civils works have begun on Darlington Railway Station with the first buildings alongside the station starting to be demolished. Tees Valley Combined Authority, the Council, Network Rail and LNER have forged a partnership to plan out the major civils works required for the improvement and re-development of Darlington Station. Land to the east and
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Mark Earl Awarded IRSE Principles Design Licence
The team at Digisig Rail are delighted to announce that one of its talented Signalling Design Engineers Mark Earl has been awarded his IRSE Railway Signal Engineers 1.1.550V.6 Principles Design License. The IRSE operates a competence certification scheme to provide assurance about the competence of individuals to carry out technical safety-critical or safety-related work on
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Capturing CO2 from the air while running a train
CO2 Rail Company is a US based firm which was founded as recently as 2020. Since then, the company has managed to develop rail-based, self-powered direct air capture (DAC) technology. The technology developed actually works by removing excess carbon dioxide from the ambient air using the rail network, purpose-built rail equipment and sustainable, train-generated regenerative
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30% Increase in Trading Revenues for Taziker
Founded in 1969 by Tom Taziker this Chorley based firm saw revenues to 31/3/22 soar to £73m a rise of more than 30% as the company expanded its operations outside of its core railway operations. This huge spurt in growth has driven the number or recruits from 80 to 366. Taziker has embarked on numerous
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Changes at the Top for Story Contracting
As Story Contracting enters its 35 years in business it has revealed that Andy Joy, Story England, Managing Director, will take over as CEO from April next year. Joy joined Story Contracting last year after having had a very successful career with Amey, and being responsible for their £400m rail business. Story Homes was founded
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Network Rail Delivers £90m of Rail Upgrades
Network Rail will deliver £90m worth of upgrades to the railway over the August Bank Holiday. Although the vast majority of the network (95%) will be open for business some routes will be affected by the upgrade works taking place. However, most passengers travelling over the Bank Holiday to visit friends of family shouldn’t be
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