Rail Projects

Rio Tinto and Chinalco are searching for investors to back a $20 billion mine and rail project in Guinea after signing an agreement with the country's government. Described by Rio Tinto as being similar in scale to its operation in the...

Wuhan Metro's Hankou North extension has opened to passengers. The 5.7-kilometre line extends Metro Line 1 from its current terminus at Dijao to Hankou North. Two additional stations have been built at Teng Kong and Shekou Town. Line 1 was opened in two...

Crossrail and Network Rail have inched a new flyover into place in Stockley, marking an important milestone in the completion of the new railway's overground works. The structure will allow Crossrail and Heathrow Express trains to cross over the Great...

It is 'paramount' that HS2 gets itself organised to deliver Britain's new high-speed rail network, according to the project's head of engineering and operation. Delivering a talk about how HS2 can benefit from the experience of HS1, Tim Smart said:...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to help fund the expansion of a single-track rail tunnel in Ukraine's Carpathian Mountains. A new double-track railway is to be constructed through the existing Beskyd tunnel (not pictured) - a notorious bottleneck along...

Financial close has been reached on the first stage of a new light rail line linking the Canadian cities of Waterloo and Kitchener. The Region of Waterloo has confirmed that the GrandLinq consortium -  which subsists of Plenary Group, Meridiam, Aecon, Kiewit and...

Crossrail’s operations director, Howard Smith, talks to Marc Johnson about where the project is going in 2014. Crossrail is a project in transition. As 2014 moves further forward, there will be fewer and fewer photographs of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) breaking into station boxes and ministers surveying completed tunnels. By the end of the year tunnelling will […]

A team of researchers in Germany has come up with a new manufacturing technique for high-speed train components that could lead to significant weight and cost savings. The concept, which replaces conventional materials for aluminium foam in the manufacture of...

With space at a premium, the need to redevelop disused and unloved corners of our towns and cities is great. The challenge for urban regenerators is that it's usually much easier to start from scratch than to try and make...

Eurotunnel’s 20th anniversary marks a personal triumph for Jacques Gounon, the quietly spoken headmaster’s son from Créteil in south-east Paris. Writes Andy Milne The civil engineer took over as head of a beleaguered Eurotunnel in 2005 and spent two years wrestling with the organisation’s rapidly unravelling finances. By 2007 disaster loomed as Eurotunnel‘s battered officiers recommended […]