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The efforts to construct HS2 have reached a highlight of the completion of the first of 13 viaducts at a key rail, Projects managers said.

An article on the BBC site says 472m (516yd) single-track river Tame West Viaduct has been built on the Delta Junction site near Water Orton, Warwickshire.

When everyone is completed, the 13 structures will take the railway over highways, rivers, flooding places and local roads from London to Birmingham and on to Staffordshire.

“Momentum on HS2 is absolutely incredible at the moment,” said Matt Young, the project’s client director in Midlands.

“On the civil engineering part of the project we are at Peak Construction; We remain on top through 2025 and into 2026. ”

TFL has spent more than estimated 942 million. Pounds on new DLR trains – but most of them are currently stuck in Spain.

An article on the standard site says the 54 air conditioners were intended to start using in April, but the project has been hit by difficulties, with 36 of the 40 already built in Spain.

These trains remain in the CAF factory, where they were built after signaling the difficulties and the collapse of a TFL contractor behind a depot required to store the trains in London.

They were ordered to replace 33 existing trains on the DLR network, some of which are more than three decades old.

Network Rail has opened bid for a program of £ 100 million. In support of the delivery of its Transpennine Route upgrade.

An article on the Construction Index Web site says Network Rail is taking a single team approach to the Transpennine Route upgrade (Tru) to break down barriers not only within the construction team but between the various stakeholders -including the Transport Department for Transport, Train – Operating companies, routes and project delivery team.

To help make Team Tru ‘a high -performance, integrated program delivery team’, the Network Rail is looking for a program partner. The eight-year contract includes project, program and construction management.

A new railway station will finally be built at Ashton Gate, home to Bristol City FC and Bristol Bears, the regional mayor has said.

An article on the BBC website says new stops can also be opened in St. Anne’s and Saltford, West of England Combined Authority (WECA) Mayor Dan Norris said Tuesday after Monday’s announcement that Bristol to Portishead Line will be reopened.

In a speech with the BBC, he described plans to bring the line back into use as “really exciting”.

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