BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has placed a £50m order with Plasser & Theurer for a new ballast cleaning machine, taking its total to five. Dubbed BCS5, this is the first unit to ...

British Railways shows off some new equipment, including an automatic ballast cleaner, a track-laying machine ... Video, 00:04:281969: Model Trains 1975: British Rail unveils High Speed Train.

Work to clear weeds from a heritage railway line in Dorset has been carried out with the help of specialist equipment. A ...

National Rail, who are using a High Output Ballast Cleaner (HOBC) to freshen up gravel under railway sleepers, said they take overrunning seriously, but could not rule out it happening.

Lopez acknowledged in his email the risks of the maintenance cuts to seven programs along the BNSF rail system, with cost ...

Rain has "significantly hampered" efforts to build a protective wall, Network Rail added. Water was running down the ...

I took an 8′ 2 x 4 and cut a groove down the middle of one side, just wide enough to hold the rail. Then I cut a wide ...

South Central Railway GM inspects flood damage, oversees rescue operations, and reviews safety measures on railway bridge and ...

The cutbacks, Cardwell warned the STB, reflect a “disturbing trend” in the rail industry ... of high-speed surfacing and shoulder ballast cleaning along its system could lead to ...