Rail News

The EU has confirmed that it will offer up €11.5 million to co-finance electrification works on the final section of the Copenhagen-Esbjerg line. Funding will be delivered as part of the TEN-T project, an EU initiative designed to develop a...

Denver's Regional Transport District (RTD) has recommended its board accept a proposal from the GBBH consortium to design and build the city's North Metro Rail Line. Although the Graham, Balfour Beatty, Hamon Constructors (GBBH) bid proposes constructing the complete line...

Japan's high-speed rail network is forcing the withdrawal of most of the country's sleeper train services as rail passengers switch to Shinkansen routes. From next March the Blue Train which connects Ueno and Aomori will finish, followed by the Hokutosai...

Initial studies are to be carried out into plans to redevelop Liestal station to accomodate additional Regio S-Bahn commuter services. An urban planning study is to be carried out by SBB, Stadt Liestal and the Canton of Basel into a...

Councillors in Manchester have backed a new study to look into the feasability of introducing tram-trains across the north west's light and heavy rail network. Manchester follows Sheffield where the UK's pilot tram-train project is currently underway. From 2016, the...

A task force, comprising of Network Rail, Whitehall transport officials and MPs, is to be set up by chancellor George Osborne to examine ways in which the rail journey time between London and Norwich can be reduced to 90...

Nuneaton man wins special Lifesaver Award A railwayman who talked down a machete-wielding man at Nuneaton station has won this year’s Lifesaver Award at the rail industry’s national RailStaff Awards 2013. Adrian Whittington of London Midland spent 20 minutes talking with...

Its colour scheme might get repainted by the seasons but we tend to view Britain’s natural landscape as a constant, not changing much from one Ice Age to the next. The reality of course is subtly different as adverse weather, seismic activity and human intervention – quarrying, mining, forestry and the like – all act [...]

Crossrail's tunnel boring machine (TBM) Elizabeth has become the latest to mark a significant breakthrough in the construction of London's new £14.8 billion railway. The 1,000-tonne TBM has broken through into the Stepney Green caverns - described by Crossrail as...

A Japanese joint venture of the Marubeni and Toshiba corporations has signed a contract with the operator of Bangkok's urban railway to supply electrical systems and operation maintenance services for the planned Purple Line. The 23 kilometre line, which is...