Rail Projects

Driver training has begun on the new 30-mile Borders Railway. Training will continue throughout the summer, as final preparations continue ahead of the start of services on September 6. The Borders Railway, which includes new stations at Shawfair, Eskbank, Newtongrange, Gorebridge,...

The Crosslinx Transit Solutions consortium is to finance, design, build and maintain a new light rail line in Greater Toronto. The consortium, which includes SNC-Lavalin, ACS Infrastructure Canada, EllisDon, and Aecon, has been formally announced as the preferred bidder for the Eglinton...

Prime Minister David Cameron has gone underground to celebrate the end of the Crossrail tunnelling programme. More than two years since the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke ground at Canary Wharf, the tunnelling programme has now come to an...

Officials in Paris have launched the start of preliminary works to extend the Line 11 metro from Mairie des Lilas to Rosny-Bois-Perrier. Line 11 is being extended by 5.4 kilometres to Rosny-Bois-Perrier, providing connections to RER E, the extended T1 tramway and...

The first wireless tram for Rio de Janeiro's VLT light rail network is set to be shipped from the Port of Antwerp in Belgium. Alstom, which is a member of the consortium building and commissioning the new system, is building four...

With less than a year to go, the countdown has begun to the official opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Swiss Transport Minister Doris Leuthard launched the countdown during a ceremony in Lucerne. At 57 kilometres, the Gotthard Base Tunnel, which will...

Like many other countries, Norway has a problem with ageing signalling equipment and needs to undertake modernisation. The infrastructure manager, Jernbaneverket, has taken the decision to adopt ERTMS nationwide with a project lasting from the present day until 2030. It is only the second country to have taken this bold step...

Stadler has finalised the design for the two sets of vehicles it is supplying for Denmark's first modern light rail system in Aarhus. The Swiss manufacturer is supplying 26 vehicles in total - a mix of Variobahn trams for the new...

The 08:55, departing from Platform 1 at Peterborough on 9 March, was a special service. On board were Network Rail route director Phil Verster, project director Neil Lindley and a selection of local politicians and trade press. At its first stop, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Claire Perry MP joined the...

Feasibility studies are to be conducted into a 600-kilometre high-speed railway between Cairo and Luxor. Spanish transport engineering consultancy Ineco is to complete the studies. The announcement was made by Ineco president Jesús Silva, who visited Egypt to meet with Minister...