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Don't get your hopes up from the thread title! This is not the long-awaited "refresh", originally due in spring 2023, of the 2020 traction decarbonisation plan, nor is it a rolling stock plan. We'll have to wait more months for those. Network Rail and ScotRail have published a 5-year Climate...

What the thread title says. The electric service to East Kilbride is supposed to start in December 2025. The electrification is on schedule as far I can see. No new trains have been ordered in recent years. If some were ordered tomorrow (not likely as far as I know) they wouldn't be...

From the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/04/japan-train-robot-maintain-railway-lines

Report on rail reform by Public Accounts Committee, published 27 May 2024 PAC report News report in the Guardian

I've just discovered this two-week-old article from the Observer. I've seen similar stuff in other places. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/05/why-labour-leapt-on-board-with-private-open-access-train-providers

Are there many viaducts that were built as four or more tracks from the start? I would guess there are very few. This question is prompted by a post in the TRU thread: I hadn't examined Huddersfield viaduct, but I know that many main lines were originally built as two tracks. Also I think...

It's two years and five months since the publication of the IRP. Since then we've had two new prime ministers, one new monarch, the cancellation of much of what remained of HS2, and numerous other policy reversals. The Transpennine upgrade has been plodding on and serious work has got going on...

This press release has appeared on the DfT website: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-next-steps-onnorthern-powerhouse-rail-between-liverpool-and-manchester

NR press release https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/md-of-scotlands-railway-alex-hynes-appointed-director-general-for-rail-services and on the DfT website https://www.gov.uk/government/news/alex-hynes-appointed-director-general-for-rail-services

Report now out https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/rail-reform-the-rail-transformation-programme/

Please move if there's an existing thread more suitable for this, or if this new thread should be in a different subforum. From the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/14/cheshire-east-council-says-it-faces-bankruptcy-due-to-hs2-link-cancellation

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/edinburgh-tram-line-cost-public-inquiry-report

Press release https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/hi-tech-air-purifying-totem-trials-planned-for-new-street-station-platforms

Almost a year after the Commons Transport Select Committee wrote a report on the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands, the Government's response has been published. No summary is provided. The response is too long for a meaningful quote...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/haymarket-to-dalmeny-electrification.225171/ The BBC has this fairly recent report, not about the electrification itself but about the political row: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65915929.amp

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/nuneham-viaduct-shut-didcot-oxford.246310/ The ideal solution, in view of discussions in other threads, but taking a few years, would be to build a new 2-track bridge alongside, divert the railway on to it, demolish the old bridge...

Network Rail press release https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/whaley-bridge-residents-invited-to-railway-bridge-overhaul-meeting And here's a piece from the Buxton Advertiser for a couple of weeks ago:

There doesn't seem to be any still-open, recent general thread for enhancements in Scotland, so I'm creating one. A few years ago there used to be regular published updates to Network Rail's Enhancements Delivery Plan. This process seems to have ended with respect to England and Wales, but...

Where is the longest stretch of electrified track in GB that is normally fed from one end only? This could be (1) a stretch from a feeder station to the end of a line or (2) a stretch from a feeder station to a point where electrification ends and the line continues unelectrified or (3) a...

I think this i the thread in which platform lengthening in Cumbria has been discussed previously. Now a press release: https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/multi-million-pound-platform-extensions-for-passengers-in-cumbria