Rail News

Financial close has been reached on the first stage of a new light rail line linking the Canadian cities of Waterloo and Kitchener. The Region of Waterloo has confirmed that the GrandLinq consortium -  which subsists of Plenary Group, Meridiam, Aecon, Kiewit and...

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors has awarded CAF a $118 million contract to build Boston's next generation Green Line light rail vehicles. The Spanish manufacturer will supply 24 low-floor units as part of the Green Line Extension (GLX) project,...

Manchester's now-defunct T68 tram will return to the city's streets later this month to honour the fleets' retirement. A final farewell trip is to take place on May 26 in aid of charity to signal the fleets' formal decommissioning. One of...

Bombardier has been chosen to complete €6 million heavy overhaul of a fleet of trams operated by Flemish Transport operator De Lijn. The 20 trams, which operate services on the coastal line between De Panne and Knokke -Heist on Belgium's west...

Holland's electrified rail network will be completely powered by wind energy from 2018, the Dutch government has announced. Traction power will be fully provided by the green energy source under a new agreement signed between electricity providers Eneco and Vivens,...

Crossrail’s operations director, Howard Smith, talks to Marc Johnson about where the project is going in 2014. Crossrail is a project in transition. As 2014 moves further forward, there will be fewer and fewer photographs of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) breaking into station boxes and ministers surveying completed tunnels. By the end of the year tunnelling will […]

A team of researchers in Germany has come up with a new manufacturing technique for high-speed train components that could lead to significant weight and cost savings. The concept, which replaces conventional materials for aluminium foam in the manufacture of...

With space at a premium, the need to redevelop disused and unloved corners of our towns and cities is great. The challenge for urban regenerators is that it's usually much easier to start from scratch than to try and make...

Eurotunnel’s 20th anniversary marks a personal triumph for Jacques Gounon, the quietly spoken headmaster’s son from Créteil in south-east Paris. Writes Andy Milne The civil engineer took over as head of a beleaguered Eurotunnel in 2005 and spent two years wrestling with the organisation’s rapidly unravelling finances. By 2007 disaster loomed as Eurotunnel‘s battered officiers recommended […]

Azerbaijan Railways has placed a €300 million order for 50 new KZ8A freight locomotives. The new electric vehicles, which will be built by the Alstom, KTZ and Transmasholding joint venture, EKZ, can haul up to 9,000 tonnes at operating speeds of 120...