Rail News

HCC and Coastal Projects have been awarded a contract to construct a 9.5-kilometre rail tunnel along a new railway between Tupul and Imphal, India. Awarded by Northeast Frontier Railway, it is the fourth contract to be awarded to HCC for the planned...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) and SNCF have extended their cross-border high-speed rail service partnership until 2020 at a ceremony celebrating the entry into service of the first ICE 3 Class 407 train between Frankfurt and Paris. Around 12 million passengers have used...

Bombardier has begun static testing of the first new Electrostar carriage for Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR). Bombardier is building 27 four-car Class 387/2 EMUs - a derivative of the Class 387 which currently operates on the Thameslink route - for...

Australia's rail industry has launched a joint research programme with several leading universities and research organisation CSIRO. The Rail Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (RMCRC) has been set up with funding from the Federal Government which has been matched by the...

Alstom is to begin testing a pre series set of Coradia Continental EMUs built for Germany's Central Saxony region. Three three-car and four five-car trains have now begun testing and are seeking approval from the German Federal Railway Authority (EBA). Operator Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen placed...

Final design for an extension of Seattle's light rail network has been cleared to go ahead. The Federal Transit Administration has issued its Record of Decision (ROD) which approves the environmental case for the Lynnwood Link light rail extension. Sound Transit will...

London Underground has extended a four-year structures maintenance agreement with Skanska for an extra two years. The deal, which covers around two thirds of the Tube network, includes the maintenance of more than a thousand bridges and 125 tunnels on...

Yorkshire is a county blessed with many great things, not least wrinkled stockings and the Chuckle Brothers. It also enjoys some uniquely characterful place names: Upperthong, Mankinholes, Wetwang, Crackpot. A little more mundane is Idle, three miles north of Bradford, but this name – with its obvious connotations – has...

Network Rail recently commissioned a large-scale project to create a 3D digital model of Liverpool Street Station in London. The model was to be based largely on 3D laser scan data collection in the field by surveying teams, which would then be supplemented and cross-checked against existing asset records. The logistics...

People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones,’ said American engineer and inventor Charles Kettering. Kettering is probably best known for inventing the key-operated car ignition but he was also heavily involved in railways, contributing research that pioneered innovations in the production...