Rail Projects

Trial runs are underway on the first section of Phase III of the Delhi Metro. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) began testing between Central Secretariat and Mandi House on December 30 and believe that the first three kilometre stretch...

Today’s railway system might be a singular entity but it was formed from many discreet parts, pushed through the Victorian landscape by competing companies to secure commercial advantage. Writes Graeme Bickerdike Coal proved a powerful inducement across the north of England, prompting a convoluted network to develop on which passengers often played second fiddle. It [...]

Utility diversions are being completed along the route of Manchester Metrolink's Second City Crossing (2CC). The new line, which will provide a new city centre link connecting St Peter’s Square, Exchange Square and Victoria station, will further expand Manchester's growing...

Testing has begun on the first of São Paulo's new monorail vehicles M01 made the way from its depot to Oratory station on Friday 10 on the first of a series of test runs to trial the first phase of...

The challenge – deliver £2.3 billion of infrastructure investment, all of which is on the operational railway in close proximity to Central London, and deliver it at a rate of half a billion pounds a year for the next three years. Writes Grahame Taylor That’s the task for Network Rail, working with Crossrail in readiness [...]

Engineering firm Egis has won a €12 million contract to oversee systems management and integration on a new metro system being delivered in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Egis will work alongside build-and-operate concessionaire Companhia de Concessões Rodoviárias (CCR) which...

Italferr has been awarded a €7.7 million project management contract to oversee works on the southern portion of a 55-kilometre railway tunnel between Austria and Italy. The contract will see the consulting arm of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned...

Work at Nottingham’s station has been continuing apace. Although last covered only in issue 106 (August 2013), it was already time to go back and see how far the works had progressed. Writes Chris Parker A lot of work has been carried out behind the hoardings which have been a feature of the station for [...]

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), the operator of Barcelona's subway network, is to oversee a preliminary study for a planned freight network in Ecuador. TMB has been given 300 days to identify the potential benefits and challenges of building an...

The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded South Yorkshire PTE £5 million, as a one off payment as part of the DfT's Local Pinch Point Fund, to replace tram tracks around Sheffield city centre. The project , which is the...