Rail Projects

CNR has been confirmed as the preferred bidder to supply 284 new subway cars for Boston's Red and Orange lines. The Chinese manufacturer will deliver 152 new Orange line cars and 132 new Red line vehicles to replace the existing...

In his recent address to the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s 2014 Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture in London this September, HS2 technical director Andrew McNaughton set out his vision for the future of Britain’s railways. Is it the transport...

Engineering methods employed to construct London’s railway tunnels in 2014 has come a long since work started on the Thames Tunnel almost 190 years ago. Where it took Brunel 18 years to burrow 396 metres through London clay, Crossrail’s...

Crossrail's tunnelling programme is a step closer to the finish line, with tunnel boring machine (TBM) Ellie completing her part in the £14.8 billion project. Tunnelling is now 87 per cent complete and the 21-kilometre twin-bored tunnel system is on...

Siemens has been awarded the contract to supply the driverless train control system for an extension of line 14 on the Paris Métro. Having supplied the CBTC system for the original line 14 route, Siemens has now been handed a €45...

A machine laying 1,000 metres of track a day is at work on the Borders Railway. Work has now begun to install almost 30 miles of rail on the new railway by Christmas. Scottish government Transport Minister Keith Brown and Mark...

High Speed Two’s new national high-speed rail college will have two campuses - Birmingham and Doncaster. Set to open in 2017, the National College for High Speed Rail is being established to train the future generation of rail engineers who...

Manchester Metrolink's new line to Wythenshawe and Manchester Airport is to open to passengers from November 3. A final phase of trial runs is set to begin on October 20, as test trams begin to simulate the five-trams-an-hour service which...

As track laying begins on the new 30-mile Borders Railways, Graeme Bickerdike explores some of the various worksites along the route and finds out about some of the challenges of reinstating the disused Waverley Line.

The main track laying programme for the new 30-mile Borders Railway has begun. Contractor BAM is expecting to complete track laying on the £294 million project by the end of the year, installing around 1,000 metres of the line a...