Rail Business

The development is one of a number of major announcements made by Infrastructure Ontario in recent days.

Two prequalified consortiums have been asked to make proposals for the Toronto Union station enhancement scheme.

The chosen consortium, Mosaic Transit Group, is expected to be awarded the contract in spring 2018 with construction to follow shortly after.

Twelve stories below street level, workers have now begun installing a yellow waterproofing barrier to get the station ready for the project's December 2019 opening.

PKP Cargo, the largest rail freight operator in Poland, has awarded Newag a contract to modernise 60 SM48 series diesel locomotives.

Open access operator MTR Express has complained to the Swedish Competition Authority about SJ's refusal to allow MTR to sell its tickets through the SJ.se website.

British rail operator FirstGroup has rejected a takeover bid from US equity firm Apollo Management.

Four Mark 5 carriages are currently out for testing on the West Highland Line from Glasgow to Arrochar & Tarbet.

The rail link was first mooted in the 1960s and will run from Melbourne's central business district to the second busiest airport in Australia.

The governments of Canada and Quebec have announced a multi-million dollar investment to develop plans to extend the blue line of the Montréal metro to Anjou.