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A specialist HS2 engineering team is preparing to move a 112 m long, 1,631 tonne steel structure over a section of Lawley Middleway - part of Birmingham’s ring road this August.

In January 2025, Virgin Group announced that it planned to order “a dozen high-speed trains to challenge Eurostar’s ‘monopoly’ in the Channel Tunnel”.

DB Cargo UK has started work on the fitment of ETCS OBUs to nine of its Class 66 locomotives.

Eurostar announced that from 15 December 2025, it will operate five direct trains daily in each direction, offering passengers even greater flexibility and convenience when traveling between the UK and the Netherlands. 

Alstom announced that the latest exhibit confirmed for The Greatest Gathering is Eurostar Class 373 power car 3999.

The new Piccadilly line trains will begin operating in the second half of 2026.

The Royal Train will be decommissioned ahead of the current contract expiring in March 2027.

On 27 June 2025, Getlink has introduced a refreshed Group brand identity and revealed a new brand architecture for its entities.

Eurostar has announced positive year-end results and growth for the third year running, alongside brand-new destinations the business intends to serve with its new trains. 

Maritime Transport, the UK’s leading provider of integrated road and rail freight logistics, has launched a new rail freight service connecting DP World Southampton with its Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton (SLPN). 

On 29 May 2025, HS2 has revealed the first section of platform to be installed for Britain’s new high-speed railway.

The construction of two parallel viaducts that will carry HS2 trains over the M6 near Birmingham Airport has taken a major step forward, with the first section of structural steelwork now complete. 

On 9 May 2025, HS2’s giant tunnelling machine Mary Ann broke through, marking the end of her mission to excavate the first bore of what will soon become the longest railway tunnel in the West Midlands.

The company has recently signed two new servicing contracts in the UK and Colombia, with a total worth of almost 400 million EUR.

Trains will soon be arriving in one of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods, after plans for the 100 million GBP Liverpool Baltic station were given the green light!