Infrastructure

A video has been released which gives an insight into the workings of the huge new site that will manufacture the 70,000 tonne segments for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel. The site at Rødbyhavn, Denmark, which will be equivalent to the size of...

A John Holland CPB Contractors Ghella Joint Venture has been awarded the $2.81 billion contract to construct a twin-bore tunnel beneath Sydney Harbour for the Sydney Metro project. Work will begin straight away, says Transport for NSW, with the first...

Arcadis and Ramboll have won a contract which will see them partner with Network Rail on the development of the Digital Railway. The two companies will become programme partners and will help to create the Digital Railway Toolkit which will...

RZD International has started laying track in the Bela Reka tunnel as part of a $80 million repair works contract. Making use of sub-ballast mat technology - which is being used to modernise Serbian railways for the first time - the engineering...

United Wagon Company (UWC) is set to open a carriage service centre in Estonia. An agreement has been reached so that the company's Baltic States cargo fleet can now be serviced at Skinest Rail's depot in Valga. Depot staff have undergone a...

The first new railway line in almost 150 years on Stockholm's commuter rail system is set to open. On July 9, Sweden's Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, will be joined by key stakeholders to inaugurate the Stockholm City Line (Citybanan), which runs...

Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has announced a $1.09 billion funding package for Stage 2 of Ottawa's fast-growing light rail network. Last week's announcement will be backed up with similar funding contributions from the Province of Ontario and the City of...

Next year will mark the 170th anniversary of the opening of the first cross-border railway between Austria and Slovakia. The histories of the two countries are closely intertwined and the arrival of the railway in 1848 coincided with political...

Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels has renewed its confidence with Thales with two new contracts for fare collection systems on the Cairo metro. The French firm was previously awarded contracts to upgrade the fare collection systems on Lines 1 and 2...

Passenger train operator Amtrak has announced plans to build a locomotion service facility in Seattle, Washington, USA. Amtrak - which operates across 46 states - said that it is the third major investment in its Seattle maintenance facility, which services the Empire...