Rail Projects

Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has been awarded a Rs  442.52 crore (€52 million) contract to build a tunnel and two bridges along the Dharam and Qazigund section section of the Kashmir Railway. The contract, which was awarded by IRCON International Ltd,...

People are now beginning to understand that the main reason for investing in the new North-South rail line is the improved capacity and connectivity it will bring to the major cities served on the core network. Writes Andrew McNaughton, Technical Director of HS2 Ltd Both the Department for Transport, in its Strategic Case for HS2, [...]

The Government of Andalusia has been granted a €130 million loan to fund the construction of Granada's first light rail line. The loan is the second tranche of a €260 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) which is...

London Underground (LU) has announced Costain Skanska JV, Dragados S.A and Morgan Sindall BeMo Tunnelling JV as the three shortlisted contractors bidding for the contract to design and build the tunnel link between Crossrail platforms and Bakerloo line platforms...

A Bombardier/Vossloh Kiepe consortium has received an order for 10 new Manchester Metrolink trams after the city's transport authority exercised an option from an £18 million contract signed in 2007. This latest order takes the total number of new trams...

São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin has signed a BRL $9.6 billion contract for the construction and operation of the city's new Line 6 - Orange Line. The Move São Paulo consortium, which consists of Odebrecht, Queiroz Galvão, UTC Participações and investor...

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has awarded a $340 million construction contract for an elevated 'skytrain' section of the region's North West Rail Link project. An Impregilo-Salini joint venture will build a 4-kilometre section, including a 270-metre cable-stayed bridge,...

The first of 11 new trams for Dubai's Al Sufouh Tramway has arrived in the city from Alstom’s La Rochelle plant in France. Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) welcomed the new Citadis vehicles which, following a period of testing,...

The first test train has taken to the western tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, marking 900 days until the official opening of the world's longest rail tunnel. AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd chief executive Renzo Simoni, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) chief...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a £500 million loan to finance the future fleet of Crossrail trains. Six hundred carriages are being procured to operate on the new Crossrail route from 2018 at a cost of around £1...