Rail Projects

Work is underway to modify a depot at Willesden Junction to accommodate London Overground's new five-car trains. As well as the depot remodelling, additional sidings are being created at Wembley for the longer trains, which are being introduced as part...

Dutch operator NS is to begin a major overhaul of its double-deck Verlengd InterRegio Matrieel (VIRM) trains this summer. The project will be delivered by NS subsidiary NedTrain from July this year, with the first of the refurbished electrical-multiple units...

HS2's Growth Taskforce has recommended setting up local delivery bodies to maximise the benefits created by high-speed rail up and down the country. Presenting a new report today, the taskforce set out a series of measures that it believes will...

Transport ministers in France and Switzerland have signed a bilateral agreement that will push forward construction of a new rail link between Geneva and the French city of Annemasse. Frédéric Cuvillier, French Minister of Transport, and Switzerland's Doris Leuthard signed...

A new Network Rail-led taskforce is to consider re-routing a coastal rail link between Devon and Cornwall after the route was devastated by winter storms. The group, which will be made up of experts from the Department for Transport, the...

An Eiffage Travaux Publics and Razel-Bec joint venture has been appointed to complete the civils work for the northern extension of Paris Metro's Line 14. The contract covers the construction of a 3.6-kilometre length of tunnel and the first two new...

We do things very differently nowadays. Mechanical and technological evolution – not to mention health and safety – has completely rewritten the railway engineering text books since the Victorians first filled them with pioneering insight. Writes Graeme Bickerdike It was a primitive business back then, relying upon man’s courage and ferocity assisted by horses, explosives, […]

UK Power Networks (UKPN) and ABB are to undertake an £87 million project to electrify the Great Western main line. The consortium will supply more than 30 new traction substations as part of the Great Western Electrification Programme (GWEP) being...

HS2 boss Sir David Higgins has continued his focus on the north of England, suggesting that the government builds the new high-speed railway to Crewe six years earlier than originally planned. In new report set out today, Higgins has said...

An FCC-led consortium has won a €506 million contract to build a section of the Doha Metro Red Line. The contract, which was awarded by the Qatar Railways Company, is FCC's first major project in the Arab Emirates and the company's...