Infrastructure

Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), the public body responsible for public transport planning in and around Birmingham, will take over the operation of Midland Metro light rail services when the current concession runs out in 2018. Midland Metro has been...

Consultancy framework contracts for the design and construction of Denmark's Fehmarnbelt fixed link have been awarded by Femern A/S. A Ramboll/Arup/TEC consortium has won the client consultancy services contract for the world's longest immersed tunnel. Ramboll/Arup/TEC will be supported by sub-consultants Schønherr A/S...

In a tandem lift using the UK’s largest crawler crane, contractor Skanska BAM, working for Network Rail, installed a pair of steel arches over the River Irwell to form the UK’s first network arch railway bridge. Set to become an instantly recognisable part of the Greater Manchester skyline, the bridge is the centrepiece of the […]

BAM Nuttall has been awarded a contract by Stadler to construct a new depot and refurbish another to support the commissioning and ongoing maintenance of its new Merseyrail fleet. The multi-million contract includes a brand new depot in Kirkdale and...

Siemens is to upgrade electrification equipment on the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority's Guadalupe Corridor light rail line. The project includes new traction power substations, protection communication devices and circuit breakers and controllers. Adof Daaboul, senior transportation engineer at Santa Clara Valley Transportation...

Arup and Mabey have launched a new modular, glass-fibre-reinforced polymer bridge that they believe will revolutionise the installation of pedestrian footbridges on challenging railway work sites. The development of the Pedesta post-tensioned bridge design has been partially funded by the...

Network Rail and its contractors have begun the main construction phase of a scheme to electrify the Preston to Blackpool line. Track lowering works started at Poutlon at the end of February. Once this is completed at the end of...

Officials have laid the cornerstone of a new service and maintenance depot for Germany's Rhine-Ruhr-Express (RRX) fleet. Work has now begun on the depot, which will maintain all 82 RRX trains, in Dortmund-Eving. Siemens said it expects test operations to...

Network Rail and the Department for Transport have been told they must learn from the issues that have dogged the Great Western electrification project as they move forward with future schemes. A report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said...

Quito mayor Mauricio Rodas has launched the first of three tunnel boring machines that will be used to construct the Ecuadorian capital's new metro. The TBM, named 'La Guaragua', began its tunnelling drive on February 24. Over the next 21 months,...