BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has awarded contracts for the first phase of its new national traffic management system (TMS), a key element of its operating strategy, which will see control of the network consolidated from more than 800 signalboxes to just 12 Regional Operating Centres (ROCs) over the next 15-20 years.

THE main line linking London, Plymouth and Penzance reopened today following repairs costing £35m to damage caused by major storms in February to the coastal section at Dawlish between Exeter and Plymouth.

GB Railfreight yesterday successfully completed tests of the first freight train to operate on the Ipswich Chord, a new 1km link north of Ipswich freight yard that provides a direct link from Britain's Great Eastern main line to the East Suffolk line. The link is due to officially open to commercial traffic on March 31.

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail has awarded an £87m design and build contract to a joint venture of Carillion and Buckingham Group Contracting to carry out infrastructure works on Chiltern Railways' new London Marylebone – Oxford link.

BRITAIN's infrastructure manager Network Rail says it will now take until mid-April to repair the storm damage to the southwest main line at Dawlish rather than its original estimate of six weeks.

BRITAIN's infrastructure manager, Network Rail (NR), has agreed to spending and performance targets laid down by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for 2014-2019 known as Control Period 5 (CP5).

ALL three lines connecting London and Bristol with southwest England have now been severed by flooding and a landslide in addition to the track wash out at Dawlish between Exeter and Newton Abbot.

THE London – Penzance main line has been badly damaged by a severe storm which washed away the track along the coastal section of railway at Dawlish west of Exeter.

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has awarded six regional framework contracts to four suppliers as part of a £2bn electrification programme covering more than 3200 route-km over the next seven years.

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail has awarded Robel, Germany, a contract to supply eight 69.7/4 Mobile Maintenance System (MMS) trains, which will be delivered from July 2015 onwards.