Rail Projects

The historic Old Curzon Street station is set to be brought back to life after the city council approved plans to develop the site. HS2 and Atkins will now be able to make alterations to the vacant Grade 1-listed building...

The European Commission is to put €24 million towards the electrification and double tracking of the railway linking Heerlen in the Netherlands and Aachen in Germany. The grant has been included in the latest round of funding provided through the...

The firm in charge of delivering the Kuala Lumpur to Singapore high-speed railway is preparing to launch the line's rolling stock tender. MyHSR, along with the Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA), held an industry briefing with almost 400 national...

Engineers have continued upgrade work at New York's Penn station to improve the reliability of services. Station owner Amtrak said that 125ft of track and around 600 railway sleepers on a number of tracks have recently been replaced and preparatory...

Workers have started building the southern section of Moscow's Third Interchange Contour (TIC) line with work expected to be complete by December 2019. The Ulitsa Novatorov, Vorontsovskaya and Sevastopolsky Prospekt stations are now under construction. The new 66km metro line will feature...

India's minister of railways Suresh Prabhu has initiated the final surveys before construction of the Bilaspur–Mandi–Leh line can begin. Once it is operational, the 498km broad gauge line will be the highest track in the world according to the ministry...

SNCF celebrated the launch of two new high-speed lines in France at the weekend. In a statement on its website, the state-owned company said the new lines will cut journey times in the west of France, boost regional tourism and...

The Philippines government has committed to building a 106km elevated railway line from the capital city of Manila to Clark, with work expected to start later this year. Philippine National Railways general manager Junn Magno said the project will help...

A new high-speed line is set to launch on France's TGV network this weekend. On July 2, the new Océane line will open between the French capital and Bordeaux. Alstom will supply 110 Euroduplex train sets for the service, following an initial...

The UK's rail minister has told parliament that Crossrail is almost 85 per cent complete. In a written statement, Paul Maynard - who recently saw HS2 added to his portfolio - said that all central tunnel section platforms have been complete,...