Infrastructure

EDZL, the state-owned organisation established to implement Rail Baltica in Latvia, has awarded the construction design and supervision contract for Riga International Airport's new railway station and related infrastructure. The winning party of the international tender was the PROSIV consortium, which...

The Heathrow airport rail project will be one of the first under government plans to call for market led proposals from the likes of local authorities and private sector companies to invest in the rail network.

In total the infrastructure plan is set to cost around $7 billion with the remaining funding expected to come from federal and provincial sources.

Four bidders have pre-qualified to compete for the contract to build an extension of Edinburgh's tram network to Newhaven.

On March 5 Russian Railways completed the second bore of the 6.7 km-long Baikal tunnel on the Baikal Amur mainline.

TfL Rail and Bombardier have launched operations at the new Elizabeth line depot at Old Oak Common.

The line will connect St Marys, a suburb in western Sydney, to Western Sydney Airport ahead of its planned 2026 opening. 

A new West London Orbital rail line has been included in a revised 25-year Transport Strategy for the city.

A joint venture between Siemens and Rasma Corporation are to provide the signalling and train control system for a new driverless light rail line in Kuala Lumpur.

Cross River Rail involves the construction of a 10.2km underground rail line through central Brisbane.