Light Rail
Manchester orders a further 10 new trams
A Bombardier/Vossloh Kiepe consortium has received an order for 10 new Manchester Metrolink trams after the city's transport authority exercised an option from an £18 million contract signed in 2007.
This latest order takes the total number of new trams...
Infrastructure
São Paulo signs Line 6 construction contract
São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin has signed a BRL $9.6 billion contract for the construction and operation of the city's new Line 6 - Orange Line.
The Move São Paulo consortium, which consists of Odebrecht, Queiroz Galvão, UTC Participações and investor...
Infrastructure
NSW awards second North West Rail Link construction contract
The New South Wales (NSW) Government has awarded a $340 million construction contract for an elevated 'skytrain' section of the region's North West Rail Link project.
An Impregilo-Salini joint venture will build a 4-kilometre section, including a 270-metre cable-stayed bridge,...
Light Rail
First Dubai tram delivered
The first of 11 new trams for Dubai's Al Sufouh Tramway has arrived in the city from Alstom’s La Rochelle plant in France.
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) welcomed the new Citadis vehicles which, following a period of testing,...
Infrastructure
Test trains running on Gotthard Base Tunnel
The first test train has taken to the western tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, marking 900 days until the official opening of the world's longest rail tunnel.
AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd chief executive Renzo Simoni, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) chief...
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EIB agrees £500m loan for new Crossrail trains
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a £500 million loan to finance the future fleet of Crossrail trains.
Six hundred carriages are being procured to operate on the new Crossrail route from 2018 at a cost of around £1...
Infrastructure
Final contract awarded for BBT access shaft construction
Swietelsky Bau GmbH has been awarded a €104 million contract to deliver the second package of works to construct the 'Wolf' access shaft of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) in Austria.
The Wolf II package will complete the 4-kilometre access...
Infrastructure
International consortia preparing bids for world’s longest immersed tunnel
Nine consortia are currently submitting proposals in the hope of winning a contract to build the world's longest immersed tunnel between Denmark and Germany.
Femern A/S said international companies were 'in the process of submitting tenders' for the main construction...
Rail News
‘World’s longest’ metro tunnel section completed in Rio
Contractors have blasted the final section of a five kilometre tunnel segment on Rio Metro's Line 4 extension.
The Rio de Janeiro government said the tunnel, which connects two of the line's six future stations - Leblon and Sao Conrado...
Infrastructure
Electric train services to begin between Manchester Airport and Glasgow
Completion of phase one of the North West electrification project has been marked with the commissioning of the newly-electrified route between Newton Le Willows and Castlefield.
Siemens-built Class 350/4 EMUs will soon begin operating on the route, allowing direct electric...
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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...