Infrastructure

The Government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Railway have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British company DP Rail to deliver a new 240 km railway between Dhaka and Payra. The agreement gives DP Rail the exclusive right to...

Three companies - Balfour Beatty, Carillion and VolkerFitzpatrick - have been shortlisted to build London Overground's 4.5 km Barking Riverside extension. The extension of the Gospel Oak to Barking line, which is currently closed for electrification works, will serve the...

Metrovagonmash says it has completed the delivery of 27 new diesel trains to Serbia a year ahead of schedule. Costing US $100 million, the new two-car trains are part of a contract signed in 2014 between Russian President Vladimir Putin...

You might think that B2F stands for “Back to the Future”. In fact, it is the acronym chosen by London Underground to signify its project to renew the track in tunnels between Baker Street and Finchley Road on the Metropolitan line. Back to the future, though, would not be a bad interpretation as the project […]

A successful and topical conference about fixed track forms for high-speed lines was held recently in Manchester. Organised jointly by the Permanent Way Institution and Union of European Railway Engineering Associations (UEEIV), it brought together over 100 experts from across Europe. Selection of a trackform Niall Fagan, head of track engineering for HS2, gave the […]

When King Coal ruled Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, his monopoly transport servant for much of the nineteenth century was the Midland Railway. But only one party profits from a monopoly and the Midland’s ability to dictate prices on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis seriously dented Derby’s position as an industrial powerhouse. So when local […]

Route-based management teams which include representatives from Network Rail and the train operator will run Britain's railway in the future under reforms announced by the Transport Secretary today. The changes, which appear less radical than many earlier reports had suggested, will...

Hitachi Rail Italy has been awarded three contracts worth around €108 million for the maintenance of high-speed and regional train sets for Trenitalia and Trenord. The first contract is for the maintenance and supply of spare parts for the Frecciarossa...

Overheard at last year’s Most Interesting awards in Derby was this brief snippet of conversation: “Really?”… “That’s an intriguing concept.” Perhaps this would have been lost in the general hubbub of networking going on but for the obvious height- of-eyebrow-raising on the “Really?”, the splutter on the gin-and-tonic and the narrowing of the eyes accompanying […]

Anyone who has walked barefoot into a child’s room late at night will probably hate Lego bricks. That aside, Lego has got to be one of the best toys ever developed. It’s an open system with which you can build whatever you want. Lego took the simple wooden cube and turned it into a building […]