Infrastructure

As a result of replacing rails, sleepers and signalling, train speeds on this section have been increased from 50km/h to 90km/h.

Britain's Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, have said they will work together to progress Crossrail 2. In a joint announcement this morning, Chris Grayling gave his backing to the project but said it needed...

Downer York Joint Venture - a partnership of Downer EDI Works and York Civil - is to deliver the City Tram Extension Project in Adelaide. The one-kilometre East End extension includes four new stops and will serve the city's new Riverbank precinct....

US officials have broken ground on the long-awaited Caltrain electrification project. Work to electrify the 84-kilometre Caltrain rail corridor between San Francisco and San Jose in California - known as the Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project (PCEP) - will now begin. A groundbreaking ceremony...

The UK government has abandoned plans to electrify the railway between Cardiff and Swansea, the Midland Main Line north of Kettering and the line between Windermere and Oxenholme in favour of bi-mode, or 'alternative-fuel', trains.

A consortium comprised of Astaldi, FCC Construccion, Salcef and Thales has been awarded two contracts by the Romanian National Railway Company.

The UK government has revealed its finalised route for the final two phases of HS2. Notable changes include adopting the new 'M18/Eastern route' between Derbyshire and West Yorkshire and proposals for a new hub station in Crewe. HS2 had originally proposed...

Cross Yarra Partnership, a consortium which includes Lendlease Engineering, John Holland, Bouygues Construction and Capella Capital, is to design and build Melbourne's Metro Tunnel.

HS2 has awarded construction contracts worth £6.6 billion for the first phase of the high-speed line between London and Birmingham. Four of the nine contractors which bid for the seven construction packages have been successful. A breakdown of the winning bidders...

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration has released a plan to improve the capacity, reliability, connectivity and performance of passenger services on the Northeast Corridor. The 457-mile-long railway line is one of the country's busiest and passes through...