This week, to coincide with International Women in Engineering Day, Amey has launched its 2022 Challenge Cup. The Amey Challenge Cup is a series of competitions held across the UK to inspire girls from underprivileged areas into STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) careers. While girls study STEM subjects at school just as much as […]
21-year-old Harry Roberts from Crudgington in Shropshire has reached the finals of HS2’s Inspiration Awards and is now in the final three vying to be crowned HS2 Apprentice of the Year. Harry, who works as an apprentice engineering surveyor with Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), HS2’s civils construction partner for the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, […]
Milestone Marks Key Step Forward on the New Frederick Douglass Tunnel Last week, Amtrak kicked off procurement phase for the $1+ billion Southern Approach construction package, which is the first of three major construction contracts for the B&P Tunnel Replacement Program in Baltimore. Amtrak has issued a Request for Letters Of Interest (LOI) to the […]
New ‘Connected Mobility Hub’ is just the ticket to help Local Authorities enhance public transport. Better ticketing and fare offers for passengers could be a little nearer thanks to the launch of a new support service for the North’s non-mayoral local authorities being offered by the sub-national Transport Body, Transport for the North. Transport for […]
Updated HS2 designs at Streethay near Lichfield result in 80% less concrete, cutting carbon on the project They also significantly reduce visual impacts and mean less disruption to local communities More planting will blend with the area’s natural landscape character HS2’s designers have reduced the length of wall structures for the railway at Streethay from […]
METALLIANCE is responsible for the design, manufacture, delivery and commissioning of the vehicles, scheduled for mid-2022 for the first two TSPs. METALLIANCE, a company specialized in the design and manufacture of industrial equipment andmobile machinery, announces an order for 4 rubber-tired trains (TSP) from the Hirpinia AV Scarl joint venture, made up of the companies […]
Picture: CargoBeamer AG Greenhouse-gas neutral transport of semi-trailers by rail CargoBeamer, a leading logistics service provider for the intermodal transport of non-craneable semi-trailers in Europe, is officially carbon neutral. The corresponding certificates were issued by the renowned service provider TÜV Nord Cert. All services offered by CargoBeamer and the company itself are carbon neutral retroactively […]
HS2 Ltd has been granted Schedule 17 consent by Birmingham City Council for two viaducts which will take the new high speed railway into Curzon Street Station in the city centre. Curzon Viaduct No.3 and Lawley Middleway Viaduct are part of the Curzon Street Station Approach area, which is made up of four connected viaducts […]
The CAF Group has achieved further success in France on being selected to supply the new fleet of trams for Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, a French metropolitan area located in the Occitania region, surrounding the city of Montpellier. This region encompasses 31 different municipalities, with a total population of close to half a million inhabitants. Specifically, […]
Vital rail upgrades are to be carried out at the end of July to extend platforms for new trains and provide power for the Elizabeth Line ahead of the next stage of opening when services from Shenfield will be connected to Paddington station via the City of London and the West End. The works will […]
