Rail Projects

Testing has begun on the first of São Paulo's new monorail vehicles M01 made the way from its depot to Oratory station on Friday 10 on the first of a series of test runs to trial the first phase of...

The challenge – deliver £2.3 billion of infrastructure investment, all of which is on the operational railway in close proximity to Central London, and deliver it at a rate of half a billion pounds a year for the next three years. Writes Grahame Taylor That’s the task for Network Rail, working with Crossrail in readiness [...]

Engineering firm Egis has won a €12 million contract to oversee systems management and integration on a new metro system being delivered in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Egis will work alongside build-and-operate concessionaire Companhia de Concessões Rodoviárias (CCR) which...

Italferr has been awarded a €7.7 million project management contract to oversee works on the southern portion of a 55-kilometre railway tunnel between Austria and Italy. The contract will see the consulting arm of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned...

Work at Nottingham’s station has been continuing apace. Although last covered only in issue 106 (August 2013), it was already time to go back and see how far the works had progressed. Writes Chris Parker A lot of work has been carried out behind the hoardings which have been a feature of the station for [...]

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), the operator of Barcelona's subway network, is to oversee a preliminary study for a planned freight network in Ecuador. TMB has been given 300 days to identify the potential benefits and challenges of building an...

The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded South Yorkshire PTE £5 million, as a one off payment as part of the DfT's Local Pinch Point Fund, to replace tram tracks around Sheffield city centre. The project , which is the...

Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has been awarded a Rs  442.52 crore (€52 million) contract to build a tunnel and two bridges along the Dharam and Qazigund section section of the Kashmir Railway. The contract, which was awarded by IRCON International Ltd,...

People are now beginning to understand that the main reason for investing in the new North-South rail line is the improved capacity and connectivity it will bring to the major cities served on the core network. Writes Andrew McNaughton, Technical Director of HS2 Ltd Both the Department for Transport, in its Strategic Case for HS2, [...]

The Government of Andalusia has been granted a €130 million loan to fund the construction of Granada's first light rail line. The loan is the second tranche of a €260 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) which is...