Rail Projects

Swietelsky Bau GmbH has been awarded a €104 million contract to deliver the second package of works to construct the 'Wolf' access shaft of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) in Austria. The Wolf II package will complete the 4-kilometre access...

Nine consortia are currently submitting proposals in the hope of winning a contract to build the world's longest immersed tunnel between Denmark and Germany. Femern A/S said international companies were 'in the process of submitting tenders' for the main construction...

Contractors have blasted the final section of a five kilometre tunnel segment on Rio Metro's Line 4 extension. The Rio de Janeiro government said the tunnel, which connects two of the line's six future stations - Leblon and Sao Conrado...

Completion of phase one of the North West electrification project has been marked with the commissioning of the newly-electrified route between Newton Le Willows and Castlefield. Siemens-built Class 350/4 EMUs will soon begin operating on the route, allowing direct electric...

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has received formal bids from two consortia shortlisted to build and operate services on the region's flagship North West Rail Link. The OTS contract, for which Network Rail will deliver consulting services, includes building...

The government has announced that terms have been agreed on a £1 billion guarantee for the London Underground's Northern line extension to Battersea. This follows last month's public inquiry into the project that will see two new stations, one at...

Galashiels saw its last passenger train on 5 January 1969, the 21:56 Edinburgh to St Pancras sleeper. This was last train between Edinburgh and Carlisle over the Waverley route – one of Beeching’s most savage cuts which left the Scottish Borders as the only UK region without a train service. The route was not protected [...]

A project to redevelop Birmingham New Street station has moved its focus to renovating the hub's east side and old entrance following the opening of the new concourse earlier this year. Following completion of Phase 1 in April, attention turned...

Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded two civil contracts worth S$526 million covering the construction of two Thompson Line stations. Woodlands North and Napier stations, for which work is expected to start on at the beginning of next year,...

Cities that invested in the construction of a new metro system in recent years encountered both advantages and drawbacks compared to cities that built systems a hundred or so years ago. Metro systems of old still needed to dig tunnels in city centres but the disruption to everyday life did not have the constraints put [...]