Rail Projects

Construction of the tunnels for London Underground's Northern line extension project, which will extend the line from Kennington to Battersea, is underway. Two permanent shafts have been dug close to Kennington Underground station from which the tunnelling programme has set off. The...

Foreign rolling stock manufacturers will need to demonstrate how they will deliver a legacy for British industry if they want to supply new high-speed trains for HS2, the UK's Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has said. Grayling was responding to a...

Sweden's new infrastructure bill, which sets out the government's budget priorities between 2018 and 2029, has committed to the construction of new main line routes for high-speed rail services. SEK 622.5 billion will be invested in transport infrastructure in that period...

The Midland Metro Alliance has applied to the UK government for approval to build and operate the Birmingham Eastside extension - a new tram line which will serve the future HS2 station at Curzon Street. The 1.7-kilometre extension will connect all...

Florida's new intercity rail operator, Brightline, celebrated the topping out of line's West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale stations in the same month it completed initial testing of the first passenger locomotive. On September 30, officials marked the completion of...

The Moreton Bay Rail Link, renamed last month as the Redcliffe Peninsula Line, has opened in Queensland. More than 650 services a week are now set to make use of the new 12.6-kilometre double-track railway between Petrie station in Brisbane and Kippa-Ring...

MTR is set to receive the first of nine new high-speed trains for the Guangzhou Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL). CRRC Qingdao Sifang has delivered the first EMU to Hong Kong from its facility in Qingdao following a period of...

HS2 has released the shortlist of suppliers it will invite to tender for design and environmental assessment services contracts for Phase 2 of the high-speed railway. The shortlist (see below) has been published in expectation of an announcement on Phase...

HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins has recommended running high-speed services directly to Sheffield’s Midland rail station rather than divert it around the city centre. The preferred option had been to build a spur off HS2 from a station at Meadowhall...

HS2 has been asked by the National Audit Office (NAO) to look at options to push back the opening date of phase one of the route, describing the current timetable as "unrealistic". The NAO said that although HS2 had made "good...