Infrastructure
Electric train services to begin between Manchester Airport and Glasgow
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...
Rail News
Consortia submit proposals to build and run NWRL
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...
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Northern line extension receives funding guarantee
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...
Infrastructure
Borders takes off
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 [...]
Rail Projects
Network Rail starts work on New Street’s east entrance
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...
Rail News
S$526m Thompson Line civils contracts awarded
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,...
Rail News
Copenhagen – challenges for a modern metro
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 [...]
Infrastructure
Completion date set for Zurich cross-city line
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...
Infrastructure
Milestone reached on Reading viaduct construction
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...
Infrastructure
Blasting complete on New York subway extension
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...
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GWR and Network Rail Director Ruth Busby receives OBE
Inspirational Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail director Ruth Busby was at Buckingham Palace on Friday to receive...