Rail Projects

A consortium including Isolux Corsan, Kolin and the Haif Company has been announced as the preferred bidder for lines B and C of the Makkah Metro. The companies have now entered into negotiations with Makkah Mass Rail Transit over the exact terms...

Scotland's Forth Bridge has become the country's sixth World Heritage site after being officially inscribed by UNESCO. The 125-year-old cantilever bridge spans the Firth of Forth between North Queensbury and South Queensbury. It joins Edinburgh Old and New Towns, the Heart of...

MTR has said that the Hong Kong section of the XRL rail link will be delayed until late 2018. The Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Shenzhen Express Rail Link was due to open at the end of 2017 and had already suffered a delay...

The sky is a cloudless blue. The sunlight is strong – really strong – reflecting off the baked dry earth. It makes any Brit, used to higher latitudes, squint through watering eyes, reach for the sunglasses and head for the nearest shade. This is early summer in the south of France...

Network Rail has said the supply chain will be "virtually unaffected" as it seeks to reassure the industry following the decision last week to put the planned electrification of the Midland Main Line and TransPennine routes on hold. Last week,...

The Argentinian government has signed a contract with Siemens and TESUR to electrify part of the General Roca commuter railway in Buenos Aires. Financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the joint venture will electrify around 53 kilometres of railway...

Rail has come out as one of the big winners in New South Wales' $9 billion public transport budget. As well as major projects like the Sydney Metro Northwest, previously known as the North West Rail Link, and the CBD...

Transport ministers from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have added their signatures to a declaration supporting the continued development of the Rail Baltica network. The agreement was signed at a TEN-T Days 2015 event in the Latvian capital, Riga, earlier...

Dragados and Flatiron, a subsidiary of Hochtief, has won a $1.23 billion contract to construct the Central Valley section of California's high-speed railway. The joint venture will build a 97-kilometre portion of the line, which will link Los Angeles and San Francisco,...

Île-de-France transport authority STIF has approved plans to procure 17 extra low-floor trams for the T3 tramway. STIF has awarded Alstom a €63 million contract for a new fleet of 44-metre long trams. Delivery of the new units will coincide with...