News & Safety

Specialist divers are pouring underwater concrete to protect two major railway viaducts carrying the West Coast main line in Carlisle.

Network Rail is today (23 August) reminding passengers that the vast majority of Britain’s rail network (over 95%) will be open for business as usual this coming Bank Holiday weekend, allowing them to reconnect with family, friends and their favourite holiday destinations.

British reserve may be internationally renowned but a new survey by Samaritans shows how much we rely on small talk as a nation, even with the limiting social restrictions of the pandemic.

More than three in five 18 to 24-year-olds in England have had their first dose of the #COVID19 vaccine.

Engineers working on Britain’s new high-speed railway have begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the 10-mile long tunnels they are digging under the Chiltern hills.

Network Rail engineers have constructed what is believed to be the first ‘beaver pass’ in the country under the Highland mainline. The new tunnel has been constructed to help the protected species pass under the railway and to help prevent flooding issues caused by the animals.

Lines into Euston station will be taken out of service from 17 July to 31 August – to enable the new HS2 terminus to be built. Weekend work will also take place between mid July and the end of August. Most train services will continue running while this work takes place, but there will be some timetable and platform alterations.

Manchester Piccadilly station staff have joined forces with the housing charity Shelter to help people sleeping rough around the major transport hub.

New safety warning as a third of British adults say they would risk all by stepping onto the railway track to retrieve their mobile phone

Network Rail and Highways England have today published the first phase of the Solent to the Midlands Multimodal Freight Strategy.

RPC Supporting a key client with Skilled Operatives and Skilled Bricklayers at Kemble Station.

We’re passionate about safety: for our employees, our contractors, the passengers who travel on our network and members of the public who interact with the railway at places such as level crossings and shops at our stations.

Space-age technology is being trialled at Manchester Piccadilly station to give passenger escalators added protection from COVID-19.

Trains in Wiltshire are now running on top of old bottles, food packaging and other unwanted plastics, with the introduction of the first composite railway sleepers on Network Rail’s main line tracks.

The £45m Great North Rail Project investment by Network Rail will see 56 signals between Prestbury, Macclesfield and Congleton upgraded to the latest technology.

RPC Senior Construction manager supporting the completed OLE & platform works at Wickford for its valued clients.

RPC & there Senior Construction Management team supporting on-going OLE works at Wickford Station.

In the Construction Industry alone, two people a day take their own lives, and the sector has reported some of the highest levels of mental ill health.

Next month, railway engineers will be undertaking a two-week, round-the-clock improvement blitz between Manchester Victoria and Rochdale and Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge.

RPC Senior Construction Manager overseeing the continued works at Wickford Station.