Rail Projects

The operator of a new commuter train service in New Hampshire, that is due to open in 2018, has been appointed.

The trains were tested - as required by the Department for Transport - at Network Rail's ERTMS national integration facility in Hitchin.

Alstom has inaugurated a repair centre in Astana, Kazakhstan - its first in the country.

Britain's Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, have said they will work together to progress Crossrail 2. In a joint announcement this morning, Chris Grayling gave his backing to the project but said it needed...

Downer York Joint Venture - a partnership of Downer EDI Works and York Civil - is to deliver the City Tram Extension Project in Adelaide. The one-kilometre East End extension includes four new stops and will serve the city's new Riverbank precinct....

US officials have broken ground on the long-awaited Caltrain electrification project. Work to electrify the 84-kilometre Caltrain rail corridor between San Francisco and San Jose in California - known as the Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project (PCEP) - will now begin. A groundbreaking ceremony...

Indonesian passenger rail operator Kerata Api Indonesia (KAI) is working with government-owned rolling stock manufacturer INKA to make sleeper trains.

The UK government has abandoned plans to electrify the railway between Cardiff and Swansea, the Midland Main Line north of Kettering and the line between Windermere and Oxenholme in favour of bi-mode, or 'alternative-fuel', trains.

A delegation from Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has inspected a mock-up of the new trains for the extension of Dubai's metro in the United Arab Emirates. A consortium including Alstom, infrastructure developer Acciona and construction firm Gulermak signed...

Britain's first purpose-built high-speed line has new owners after a deal was confirmed at the end of last week. Borealis - the infrastructure investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) pension fund - and Ontario Teachers' Pension...