Rail Projects

Zurich's 9.6 kilometre cross-city link is set to open on June 15 next year, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has announced. Earlier this week, SBB began the 200-day countdown to the commissioning of the new line which is designed to relieve...

Contractors have installed the first pre-cast concrete beams that will form the deck of a two-kilometre viaduct in Reading. The new viaduct, which is one component of a £895 million redevelopment of rail infrastructure around Reading, will reduce congestion to...

Excavation work is now complete on a $4.45 billion extension of New York's Q Line. 'Sandhogs' carried out the final blast on November 18 which will serve as an escalator entrance on the north side of 86th Street and 2nd...

A second 750-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) has begun work on San Francisco's Central Subway metro extension. The city's transit agency (SFMTA) has now launched 'Big Alma', who joins her sister Mom Chung in the construction of a $1.6 billion...

The first four of eight rolling stock projects have been awarded funding as part of the 'Radical Train' competition. The contest, which was launched by the Railway Safety Standards Board's (RSSB) Enabling Innovation Team (EIT) earlier in the year, invited...

The HS2 Hybrid Bill, described as project's planning application, has been published by the Department for Transport (DfT). If the bill's passage through Parliament goes smoothly, construction of the line between London and Birmingham could begin between 2016 an 2017. The...

The High Speed Rail Preparation (paving) Act has received Royal Assent, allowing construction design work to begin on HS2. The Act, which MPs voted 350 to 34 in favour of at its third reading last month, gives HS2 the green...

A political delegation including Danny Alexander and Lord Deighton has toured Crossrail's first completed rail tunnel between Royal Oak and Farringdon. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander, Infrastructure Minister Lord Deighton and Deputy Mayor for Transport Isabel Dedring became...

Martin Barlow, Carillion’s Senior Construction Manager on the Canal Tunnels project at Thameslink has praised the work of young apprentices Ashley Edwards, 18, Jason Platford, 17 and Jake Caddie, 17. ‘The most important quality I look for in trainees is good time keeping and taking a real interest in what you are doing – and [...]

A public inquiry has been launched into Transport for London's (TfL) proposed Northern Line extension to Battersea. TfL has said that work could begin on a new line west of Kennington to Battersea via Nine Elms as soon as 2015...