Rail Projects

Three companies - Balfour Beatty, Carillion and VolkerFitzpatrick - have been shortlisted to build London Overground's 4.5 km Barking Riverside extension. The extension of the Gospel Oak to Barking line, which is currently closed for electrification works, will serve the...

Managing risk on a project isn’t just about being the safety police, says Sarah; it is much more important to support and encourage safe practice. On something like the Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) project, probably one of the largest and most complex resignalling programmes in the world, that philosophy is being put to the test. […]

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Italy's transport minister, Graziano Delrio, has attended the opening of a new high-speed line between Treviglio and Brescia. The transport minister and other officials were on board a Frecciarossa 1000 for the maiden trip on December 11 - the day the...

Passenger and freight trains have begun scheduled services through the Gotthard Base Tunnel, marking the completion of a record-breaking project. The first two trains to use the tunnel left Zurich and Basel for Lugano, a city in the Italian-speaking Ticino...

Hitachi is celebrating the completion of the first Class 800 IEP train to be built in the UK. An event is being held at the company's factory in Newton Aycliffe today to mark the milestone. It is the first of...

Route-based management teams which include representatives from Network Rail and the train operator will run Britain's railway in the future under reforms announced by the Transport Secretary today. The changes, which appear less radical than many earlier reports had suggested, will...

MPT, a Thales, VolkerRail and Laing O'Rourke consortium, has been retained by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) to design and build the city's Trafford Park line. The consortium will work with the authority's delivery partner, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff, to deliver the extension...

Network Rail and its main contractor, J Murphy & Sons, are close to completing the £133 million electrification of the Gospel Oak to Barking line. Work on the London Overground line is 80 per cent complete and on schedule to...

As autumn approached, Crossrail announced that, following a very intense and busy period, the project had reached yet another milestone – declaring that 75 per cent of the work was now complete. To understand better just what “75 per cent complete” actually means for the engineers involved, Rail Engineer caught up with Chris Binns, chief […]

Overheard at last year’s Most Interesting awards in Derby was this brief snippet of conversation: “Really?”… “That’s an intriguing concept.” Perhaps this would have been lost in the general hubbub of networking going on but for the obvious height- of-eyebrow-raising on the “Really?”, the splutter on the gin-and-tonic and the narrowing of the eyes accompanying […]