Rail

Career story: Chris Montgomery, Network Rail Birmingham New St project director

The overhaul of Birmingham New Street is already a huge success with the public. Chris Montgomery can enjoy the accolades after years of hard work rebuilding the station while that same public walked through his site.

7 years 4 months ago
Epic Birmingham New Street 'shows economic power of infrastructure'

Birmingham New Street’s stunning new look station was completed today with the opening of the Grand Central shopping complex, a project cited by the Chancellor this week as an example of how infrastructure can help reshape local economies.

7 years 4 months ago
Expanding the horizons for composites in construction

Industry body Composites UK will launch a new construction sector group next month to support and promote the growth of fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) in the industry.

7 years 4 months ago
Birmingham New Street in numbers

Here are the project’s vital statistics.

7 years 4 months ago
Birmingham New Street station: five years of construction in five minutes

Video: Birmingham’s New Street station has undergone an incredible £750m transformation, which means that the stations can now handle 300,000 passengers per day.

7 years 4 months ago
Newly opened Birmingham New Street station gives property market a boost

Record investment activity in commercial property underpinned by infrastructure investment in Birmingham.

7 years 4 months ago
Station Masterpiece: Birmingham's rebuilt New Street Station

Technical excellence, flexibility and a collaborative approach were all crucial requirements explains the Atkins’ design team who engineered the award winning Birmingham New Street Station which opens this weekend. Like any epic journey, turning Birmingham’s...

7 years 4 months ago
Victoria Line handed back early

A 4D BIM model, first use of a new type of track and the efforts of over 300 people meant work to increase trains running into Walthamstow by 50% coming in a whole two days ahead of schedule reports David Waboso.

7 years 4 months ago
Ring fenced Network Rail schemes not immune from Hendy’s “re-planning” of CP5

Mantra will be is it efficient, deliverable, affordable? If not scheme will be moved to post 2019.

7 years 4 months ago
Borders Railway reopens – the start of a post-Beeching regional rail revival?

As the £294M Border Railway scheme reopens to relink Edinburgh to Tweedbank almost 50 years after the 50km line was axed by the Beeching review, Campaign for Better Transport proposes its top 12 lines that should be brought back into service next.

7 years 5 months ago