Rail Projects

Ground has been broken on one of the two new depots that will house rescue and maintenance vehicles for the Gotthard Base Tunnel. In the event of a fire in the tunnel, emergency rescue trains will be dispatched from sites...

A new energy-efficient 'EcoTram' is undergoing live testing along the streets of Vienna. The Siemens-built light rail vehicle (LRV), which will operate on Line 62 until the end of May next year, has been fitted with several potentially revolutionary prototype...

Balfour Beatty, Laing O'Rourke Construction Limited, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction UK have been shortlisted for a £75 million contract to fit-out Woolwich station. As well as the station, the contract covers the fit-out of both portals at North Woolwich...

The EU has confirmed that it will offer up €11.5 million to co-finance electrification works on the final section of the Copenhagen-Esbjerg line. Funding will be delivered as part of the TEN-T project, an EU initiative designed to develop a...

Denver's Regional Transport District (RTD) has recommended its board accept a proposal from the GBBH consortium to design and build the city's North Metro Rail Line. Although the Graham, Balfour Beatty, Hamon Constructors (GBBH) bid proposes constructing the complete line...

Councillors in Manchester have backed a new study to look into the feasability of introducing tram-trains across the north west's light and heavy rail network. Manchester follows Sheffield where the UK's pilot tram-train project is currently underway. From 2016, the...

Its colour scheme might get repainted by the seasons but we tend to view Britain’s natural landscape as a constant, not changing much from one Ice Age to the next. The reality of course is subtly different as adverse weather, seismic activity and human intervention – quarrying, mining, forestry and the like – all act [...]

A Japanese joint venture of the Marubeni and Toshiba corporations has signed a contract with the operator of Bangkok's urban railway to supply electrical systems and operation maintenance services for the planned Purple Line. The 23 kilometre line, which is...

Green bonds could soon be used to fund major transport infrastructure projects in the Canadian province of Ontario under plans outlined by Premier Kathleen Wynne. The tax-free bonds are designed to attract a burgeoning group of investors who are looking...

Much has been written on the deployment of the European Railway Traffic Management System (ERTMS) Level 2 across Europe. Most of the more recent High Speed lines are equipped with the system (or more accurately the ETCS – European Train Control System plus GSM-R) where infrastructure and trains are more or less self contained and [...]