Rail Projects

Design contracts have been awarded for a planned 205-kilometre orbital rail network in Paris. Two consortia led by EGIS Rail have been awarded contracts by the Société du Grand Paris to design and manage works on two of four new lines...

Hong Kong's Secretary for Transport & Housing, Professor Anthony Cheung, has revealed Hong Kong's HKD $110 billion future rail expansion plan which outlines seven new railway projects to be delivered by 2031. Projects featured in the Railway Development Strategy 2014 include the...

The Northwest Rapid Transit Consortium (NRT) has been awarded a $3.7 billion contract to build and operate a new 36-kilometre suburban railway in Sydney. NRT, which consists MTR, John Holland, Leighton Contractors, UGL Rail Services and Plenary Group, will build eight...

Canberra's ACT Government has given the go-ahead for its proposed $783 million light rail network, Capital Metro. Minister Simon Corbell announced at an industry briefing on September 15 that the government had approved the project's business case and would begin accepting...

Transport for London has formally applied for the powers it needs to deliver a major redevelopment of Bank station. The Bank Station Capacity Upgrade project, which will involve the construction of a new southbound Northern line tunnel, will allow the interchange...

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £70 million contract to fit out Crossrail's new station at Woolwich. As well as the station fit out, Balfour Beatty will deliver works at the North Woolwich and Plumstead portals either site of the...

A public consultation has been launched into a proposed 4-kilometre extension of London Overground's Gospel Oak to Barking line. The extension would connect the Overground network to the proposed Barking Riverside housing development, which has planning permission for 10,800 homes...

Turkish state railways (TCDD) has awarded Indra a €43 million contract to develop a system to manage the operational planning for country's entire rail network. The system, which will cover Turkey's conventional and high-speed rail system, will cover traffic planning...

Tunnelling has started early on Sydney's North West Rail Link. The first of four tunnel boring machine (TBM), Elizabeth, has now begun her drive beneath the city, constructing the new 15-kilometre twin-bored tunnel system from Bella Vista to Epping. A joint venture...

A second Mansky tunnel has been officially opened by Russian Railways (RZD) president Vladimir Yakunin, relieving a critical bottleneck on the Mezhdurechensk - Tayshet branch of the Trans-Siberian Express. The new tunnel, which cuts beneath the Argazinskoe pass in the Sayan Mountains parallel...