Monthly Archives: June 2015

26 June 2015

Plans to upgrade significant sections of the railway network at a cost of £38.5bn have been shelved by the Government. Upgrades to the Leeds-Manchester line, and the Midland main line from London to Sheffield via Nottingham and Derby, have been cancelled. Upgrades …

18 June 2015

It’s easy to forget sometimes how small an island we live on: unless we are really unlucky, our railway journeys rarely take more than a day. So how about this monster journey across the world’s biggest landmass? This Trans-Siberian railway journey …

12 June 2015

This weekend, Saturday, 13th June, is expected to see the start of several weeks of major upgrades taking place to track across Scotland. Work will begin on the Winchburgh tunnel near Linlithgow in West Lothian, and will cause severe delays to services …

4 June 2015

  Love it or loathe it, the plans for HS2 – the high-speed rail link between the north and the south of England – are underway. It was a key Conservative election pledge and made its way into the recent …

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