Infrastructure
Winchburgh’s 44-day blockade
A legacy of the rapid early growth of Britain’s railway network is that the UK has one of the world’s most restrictive loading gauges. As a result, typically half of the cost of British electrification projects is the civil engineering work to adapt structures to provide clearance for wires and...
Infrastructure
Milestone for Portishead-Bristol line restoration
Network Rail has appointed Arup to help reinstate the rail link between Portishead and Bristol city centre.
The first phase of the MetroWest project involves restoring the disused Portishead branch line, building a new station at Portishead and reopening the...
Depots
Wabtec makes offer to buy Faiveley Transport
Wabtec Corporation has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Faiveley Transport for €1.7 billion.
The combined company, which would continue trading as Faiveley Transport and keep its headquarters in Gennevilliers, would become one of the world's largest rail equipment suppliers,...
Infrastructure
Construction starts on Barcelona airport rail link
Construction of a new rail link between Barcelona-El Prat Airport and the city centre, which involves tunnelling beneath a live runway, has begun.
Delayed by several years, the 4.5-kilometre, double-track link - 2.8 kilometres of which will be excavated by TBM...
Infrastructure
London Underground extends maintenance contract
London Underground has extended a four-year structures maintenance agreement with Skanska for an extra two years.
The deal, which covers around two thirds of the Tube network, includes the maintenance of more than a thousand bridges and 125 tunnels on...
Infrastructure
The train now arriving
Yorkshire is a county blessed with many great things, not least wrinkled stockings and the Chuckle Brothers. It also enjoys some uniquely characterful place names: Upperthong, Mankinholes, Wetwang, Crackpot. A little more mundane is Idle, three miles north of Bradford, but this name – with its obvious connotations – has...
Infrastructure
Paris begins work on Line 4 extension
RATP, alongside the Mayor of Montrouge, launched the start of civils works on an extension of the Line 4 metro.
The 2.7-kilometre extension will add two new stations, in Montrouge and Bagneux, to what is the second-busiest metro line in...
Infrastructure
OHL to build Follo Line Ski station
Spain's Obrascon Huarte Lain (OHL) is to build a new station in Ski - the company's first contract in Norway.
The station, which will have six tracks and three central platforms, is part of the Follo Line project - a new intercity...
Infrastructure
Rail Baltica wins CEF backing
Rail Baltica has successfully bid for funding through the European Commission's Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).
The project's aspiration is to open a new standard-gauge railway line to link the cities of Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas and Warsaw, removing the current mismatch of...
Infrastructure
Implenia to build second Bözberg railway tunnel
Swiss contractor Implenia is to construct a new, larger tunnel to replace the Bözberg railway tunnel.
Implenia has been awarded a CHF 145 million contract by SBB to construct a new twin-track railway tunnel to replace the existing Bözberg tunnel in...
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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds
New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge...