Rail Projects

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 […]

The last train of the new S Stock fleet has been delivered from Bombardier's site in Derby to London Underground's Ruislip depot. The new fleet is one of the components of a major upgrade of the sub-surface lines, known as the...

The Borders Railway connects around 20,000 people in Galashiels and another 20,000 in Midlothian to Edinburgh. It’s had a strong start, carrying over a million passengers in its first year. The line’s construction, which cost the equivalent of £11.7 million per mile, required 30 miles of new railway built on an old track bed with […]

John Holland has been awarded a contract worth almost $600 million to extend the South Morang line to Mernda, north of Melbourne. The long-awaited Mernda Rail Extension includes eight kilometres of new railway between South Morang station and Mernda. As well as...

The preferred route for Phase Two of HS2 from Crewe and the West Midlands to Manchester and Leeds has been presented by the UK government. Today's announcement, though not throwing up any major surprises, is an important step for the...

South Korea's rail infrastructure manager, Korea Rail Network Authority (KRNA), has appointed Nokia to establish an LTE-R communications network on its new high-speed railway between Wonju and Gangneung. Nokia, which has been at the forefront of developing LTE-R technology for the rail...

A new rail franchise has been created which will combine both the InterCity West Coast franchise and HS2, the UK government has announced. The West Coast Partnership franchise will start in 2019 and will incorporate HS2 services when the line...