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Britain's busiest airport has revealed it lost almost three-quarters of its passengers last year due to 'lockdowns and border closures'. Only 22 million passengers travelled through Heathrow in 2020; 73 per cent less than the previous year.
11,000 tonne tunnel to be installed on the railway in first for UK engineering
Massive concrete structure to be pushed under the East Coast Main Line as part of £1.2bn upgrade
Brittany Ferries unveils gigantic new gas driven vessel
Salamanca has taken to the water at a shipyard in China and will enter service between the UK and Europe in 2022
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
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- Crossrail is a memorial to another London – one that expected to prosper for everThe £18bn Elizabeth line was designed for an ever-growing city. After Brexit and Covid, it looks like a white elephant
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- Exclusive: TfL took legal advice on cancelling First Group tram contract after fatal Croydon crashTransport for London (TfL) was considering cancelling Tram Operations Limited’s (TOL) contract to run the Croydon tram network in the The post Exclusive: TfL took legal advice on cancelling First Group tram contract after fatal Croydon crash
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- 11,000 tonne tunnel to be installed on the railway in first for UK engineeringMassive concrete structure to be pushed under the East Coast Main Line as part of £1.2bn upgrade
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- 11,000t tunnel to be ‘pushed’ under East Coast Main Line in UK engineering firstAn 11,000t curved concrete box is to be installed beneath the East Coast Main Line in Werrington as part of the line’s £1.2bn upgrade.
- HS2 construction clashes with East West Rail are causing ‘complete chaos’Construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) is clashing with work on the East West Rail programme, leading to “complete chaos” on the roads of Buckinghamshire, according to local leaders.
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