Rail Projects

West Midlands' transport authority Centro has confirmed the route of the Midland Metro Eastside extension in Birmingham. The extension will take trams from Curzon Street, the site of Birmingham's HS2 hub station, along New Canal Street and Meriden Street then on...

Since Eurostar moved from Waterloo to St Pancras, the International platforms have lain mostly unused. This despite the fact that Waterloo is London’s busiest terminal with 98 million passengers in 2013/14 and a train arriving or departing virtually every minute during peak times and it could badly do with the...

An investigation has been launched into a proposed high-speed train test centre near Malaga over concerns about its eligibility for EU funding. The European Commission (EC) has launched an in-depth investigation to assess whether or not plans for a 55-kilometre...

The Valladolid-León high-speed line is on course to be commissioned before this summer, Spain's Minister of Development has announced. Ana Pastor made the comments during a test ride along the new standard gauge railway, which will extend the Madrid-Valladolid line and...

Contractors have been celebrating the first breakthrough on the Ceneri Base Tunnel project - 13 months ahead of schedule. The tunnelling milestone occurred 400 metres from the south portal of Vezia in the west tunnel on March 17. Around 1.5 kilometres...

Signalling Solutions Limited (SSL), the Alstom/Balfour Beatty joint venture, has been awarded a €54 million contract to signal the north-eastern section of Crossrail. SSL will supply and install the signalling system on the existing Network Rail infrastructure from Pudding Mill Lane...

How do you drill a rail tunnel through lava? That is one of the questions facing the construction of a new metro system in Saudi Arabia's fourth-largest city, Madinah. In 2020, Madinah hopes to commission a new three-line metro network and...

South African rail operator Transnet has completed construction of 95 Class 20E electric locomotives in partnership with China's CSR. President Jacob Zuma was at Transnet's factory in Koedoespoort, Pretoria, to celebrate the completion of the final unit. In 2012, Transnet signed a...

Russian Railways (RZD) has announced the launch of a tender to design and plan the proposed 770-kilometre high-speed railway between Moscow and Kazan. The contract, which has a value of 20.79 billion roubles (€320 million), will include surveying works and route...

NFM Technologies is to design and build the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for London's Northern line extension. The contract has been awarded by London Underground and contractor Ferrovial Agroman Laing O’Rourke Joint Venture (FLO), which plans to begin its tunnelling...