A review of Network Rail's (NR) £38bn 2014-2019 investment programme conducted by its chairman Sir Peter Hendy has found it to be "unrealistic and undeliverable," with the result that extra funding is needed to complete some projects while others will be delayed.

BRITAIN's infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has finally installed the first kilometre of wiring on the delayed project to electrify the Great Western Main Line between London and Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford and Newbury.

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has approved Ricardo Rail's PanMon pantograph monitoring system for a wider rollout across the country's railway network following a successful trial on the West Coast Main Line (WCML).

LOCAL authorities in southeast England backing the East West Rail (EWR) link from Oxford and Aylesbury to Milton Keynes and Bedford are warning that the project could be delayed by between three and seven years under a review of infrastructure manager Network Rail's (NR) enhancement programme.

CHILTERN Railways began operating London Marylebone - High Wycombe - Oxford Parkway services on October 26 following the completion of a £320m project to create a new link between the capital and Oxford.

NETWORK Rail (NR) CEO Mr Mark Carne told the British parliament's Public Accounts Committee on October 21 that the cost of completing electrification of the Great Western Main Line (GWML) has increased to at least £2.5bn and could reach £2.8bn.

NETWORK Rail (NR) has installed a fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) pedestrian footbridge across the Plymouth - Penzance line at St Austell, the first structure on the British railway network to be constructed entirely from FRP material.

NETWORK Rail has appointed BAM as principal contractor for a £170m project to upgrade Scotland's 174km Aberdeen - Inverness line.

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has cast doubt over plans for more open-access inter-city passenger services on the East Coast Main Line (ECML), claiming there may be insufficient capacity on the London - Edinburgh route to accommodate the required eight long-distance trains per hour.

THE Planning Court in London has rejected a legal challenge against the construction of Manchester's £85m Ordsall Curve, a key component of the Northern Hub programme of capacity enhancements, which will enable the operation of 700 more trains per day on the railway network in northern England.