Infrastructure

Tens of thousands of railway sleepers and miles of concrete ties and pad will be replaced as part of a $24 million investment in Arizona's rail infrastructure. The work is part of a wider Union Pacific programme to boost safety...

Trafikverket has awarded a contract worth SEK 2 billion to construction firms NCC and OHL to expand Sweden's Southern Main Line. The project will see the railway between Flackarp and Arlöv, which sits on the main line between Malmo and...

Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail has begun work to construct a third line on its side of the cross-border Betuweroute freight rail link. The 3 km section of track between Zevenaar and the German border will help expand the important freight route, which sits...

Indian firm Adani will build a 388km standard gauge coal railway in Central Queensland, Australia, after giving the green light for the Carmichael coal mine. Adani chairman Gautam Adani said it was an historic day for Adani, for regional Queensland, and for Indian...

Polish State Railways (PKP) has signed a third and final major contract to reconstruct part of the Warsaw-Dorohusk line. It concerns the section between Otwock and Pilawa where PKP will rebuild six railway viaducts, build five new underpasses for pedestrians and add a 26km...

Union Pacific has announced another round of investment to improve safety and efficiency across its railway network. The rail operator connects 23 states across the United States and has now revealed plans to spend $34.1 million in Idaho. The majority of...

Service operator and infrastructure manager Russian Railways has signed an agreement with JSC Tuva Energy Industrial Corporation (TEIC) to build a new railway line in Russia. It is hoped the 410 km Elegest-Kyzyl-Kuragino line - which is estimated to be complete...

Rail freight operator Union Pacific has announced a $36 million investment into its infrastructure in Colorado. The firm plans to spend $3.1 billion across its entire network in 2017 to boost safety and efficiency and has already made a wave...

The president of Kenya has called the opening of a new standard gauge railway a milestone moment for the country. Kenya was previously served by the Uganda Railway, a line built at the beginning of the 20th century that had fallen into...

Rail operator Union Pacific has announced it is to invest $85 million in Illinois' rail infrastructure. The news follows similar statements for other midwestern states in the past two months as part of Union Pacific's wider $3.1 billion programme to improve...