Fatal track work was ‘due to start after line closure’
Railway maintenance work which saw two people struck and killed by a train was not due to start until the line was closed, investigators have found.
Railway maintenance work which saw two people struck and killed by a train was not due to start until the line was closed, investigators have found.
Services between Aberdeen and Edinburgh had to be cancelled yesterday after the hole, which was a metre deep, opened on the East Coast Main Line southbound close to Leuchars in Fife.
Train services between Aberdeen and Edinburgh have been cancelled due to a sinkhole.
The new timetable will be introduced from December 15 and means dozens of extra trains stopping at Inverurie.
Parking restrictions are set to be imposed while repair work is carried out on a railway line in Aberdeen.
A new railway station in the north-east is beginning to take shape.
Network Rail is investing an additional £4.5 million to improve the performance of the network in the north-east.
Thameslink has warned that its services could be disrupted into the afternoon following earlier damage to overhead electrical wires.
Two track workers were killed by a train while there was no official lookout in place, a report has found.
Plans to redevelop a north-east freight yard into a transport interchange have been handed a boost.
This timelapse video shows the new double track laid down as part of upgrades on the rail line between Aberdeen and Inverurie.
Months of bus replacement misery for rail passengers in the north-east has finally ended.
Months of bus replacement misery for rail passengers in the north-east is set to end.
Trustees of a museum group have thanked members of the public for the response received to a public appeal.
The section of railway between Aberdeen and Inverness is set to reopen next week.
A community campaign to save a historic Aberdeen railway signal box has reached the end of the line – and demolition has started.
The Aberdeen to Inverness track will be closed from today until Monday, which will affect all train stations between the two cities.
Permission has been given for a railway station signal box to be demolished – despite a campaign to save it.
The access road at Dyce Cemetery, between Caskieben Road and the concrete plant, is currently unadopted, meaning that no one is responsible for its upkeep.
Groups who want to save a historic signal box have until the end of today to put ideas forward for uses for the building.
Aberdeen city councillors are to meet with Network Rail representatives this week to discuss the future of a historic signal box.
Works to improve the rail network in the north-east are taking shape, with the project now past the halfway mark.
A public drop-in event will be held next week to discuss the future of a road bridge.
Trains travelling between Aberdeen and Dundee were delayed today after a lorry was reported to have crashed into a bridge.
A north-east rail line will be disrupted for more than a month, starting this weekend.
North-east commuters are being warned of two road closures set to take place as part of multi-million-pound rail improvement works.
A rail operator has successfully completed the first phase of signalling upgrades.
An eleven-week closure of a level crossing in the north-east is to take place for essential rail works.
An Aberdeen MSP has claimed there is a “case to take action” on the oversupply of short-term lets.
A north-east MSP has called on his political rivals to back full devolution of rail services to the Scottish Government.