British Steel has secured a five-year contract worth £500m to supply train tracks for Network Rail, in a move which could help safeguard the short-term future of the Scunthorpe steelworks. The company will forge more than 337,000 tonnes of track, securing thousands of jobs, two months after the government used emergency powers to prevent the...
After 17 years, California still has no tracks for its high-speed rail. However, the gravy train has run on time in every single fiscal year — until now. A new report from the Department of Transportation reveals that nearly $7 billion in federal funds resulted in exactly zero feet of high-speed track laid in the...
Royal Navy ships based in Plymouth and Portsmouth were deployed to track Russian warships through British waters this week, a navy spokesperson has said. Plymouth-based HMS St Albans, a Type-23 frigate, monitored the Admiral Golovoko as it sailed east through the English Channel and launched a Merlin helicopter to gather information from the air. Portsmouth-based...