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Italy's rail markets are In fine form, with construction of major new lines underway and several different types of traction and rolling stock on order. Mark Simmons delves Into the [...]

RISING from the desert sands, Egypt's New Administrative Capital (NAC) is progressively becoming a hub of modernity and government power. Plans for a new capital were announced in 2015 and [...]

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has approved funding of up to $US 200m for the Lobito Corridor project to rebuild 1289km of railway from Lobito to Negrao and [...]

PARAGUAYAN Railways (Fepasa) has cancelled a proposed concession with Korea to finance, build and operate a 43km light rail line between the capital Asuncion and Ypacarai, citing delays and changes [...]

ETIHAD Rail has signed a memoranda of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Transport of Jordan and Jordanian companies to develop, build, operate and maintain a new 360km railway. The [...]

The N700S is the 2020s iteration of a successful high-speed train design. JR Central has confirmed a new order for the trains and is set to introduce several innovative features, [...]

There can be little doubt that Rail Baltica is an ambitious project in every regard, from the sheer scale of building 870km of new electrified double-track railway to connect the [...]

The British city of Coventry is on track to open the world's first Very Light Rail (VLR) demonstration line next year. Mark Simmons finds out more and examines the possibilities [...]

Porto Metro has opened a 3.1km light rail extension to the Yellow Line from Santo Ovidio to Vila d'Este. The three-station extension includes 500m of viaduct and a 1km tunnel. [...]

A 4km extension to Luxembourg's light rail network opened on July 7. It runs southwest of the city centre through the new Cloche d'Or business district, from l.ycee Bouneweg to [...]

LIBYA'S deputy transport minister, Mr Fadlallah Ashour, and the head of the Railway Project Implementation and Management Agency, Mr Saeed Al-Kilani, have met with the Russian ambassador to Libya, Mr [...]

Inland Rail, which is overseeing construction of the 1600km freight line between Melbourne and Brisbane, has awarded John Holland a $A 470m ($US 313m) contract for the eight remaining project [...]

British Steel has announced an order to supply rail for the 286km electrified line under construction between Adana and Gaziantep. The supplier says the 'multi-million pound' contract will see it [...]

LONG-standing plans to build a rail tunnel beneath the Strait of Gibraltar to connect Spain with Morocco have been revived, with the Spanish government commissioning engineering consultancy Ineco to update [...]

Rail is making strides to become more sustainable in its operations, but work remains to reduce the carbon footprint of constructing new lines and stations. The challenge is being taken [...]

GERMANY'S Federal Ministry of Digital Infrastructure and Transport (BMDV) has suspended funding for all new hydrogen-based projects. This move, reported in local media, follows allegations of corruption over the allocation [...]

THE Korean city of Ulsan has signed a memorandum of understanding (Moll) with the Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI) to cooperate on a project to build the world's first light [...]

Australia is in the middle of an unprecedented rail infrastructure boom with major projects underway or planned in four of the country's six capital cities as well as a major [...]

Numerous rail projects opened in China to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party at the end of June. Andrew Benton reports, this is by [...]

THE Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), a city in Medina province, Saudi Arabia, has agreed a 500m [euro] contract with Alstom to build and equip a 22.4km light rail line [...]

NEW ZEALAND'S coalition government has pulled the plug on a light rail scheme, raising concerns about whether other centrally-funded rail schemes might also be cancelled. Transport minister, Mr Simeon Brown, [...]

A research team led by the University of Birmingham in Britain is developing a new design for railway points or switches that promises to improve the reliability of actuation mechanisms [...]

GERMANY is to build its longest railway tunnel as part of the 150km new line between Dresden and Prague, German Rail (DB) has announced. The tunnel will enable passengers to [...]

CHINA Railways (CR) opened the Jinxing Intercity Railway on December 18. The 101km line links Tianjin to Beijing Daxing International Airport and has four new stations. The line has a [...]

THE Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the associated supply chain and inflationary challenges posed by these once-in-a-generation events pushed the construction industry to a crisis point. Yet there [...]

POLAND'S railway is embarking on a green energy revolution. The network sources 14.8% of its electricity from renewables at present, in line with the average for the wider economy. However, [...]

RUSSIA has reportedly begun building a railway line between Rostov-on-Don in Russia and Yakymivka, about 10km north of the Crimean Peninsula, the Russian-appointed governor of the Zaporizhzhia oblast, Mr Yevgeny [...]

Ho Chi Minh Line 1 Country: Vietnam Type: Metro Construction Start: 2012 Completion: 2021 Length: 19.7km Cost: $US 2.5bn Ho Chi Minh Line 1 will be the first metro line [...]

CANADA'S minister of transport, Mr Pablo Rodriguez, has announced the launch of the Request for Proposals (RFP) for the High Frequency Rail (HFR) project to provide dedicated infrastructure for passenger [...]

German holiday group Tui has announced plans to expand its rail offer by introducing up to 10 new services to meet growing demand for sustainable travel options. Since July, the [...]

Iraq's prime minister, Mr Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, and the first vice-president of Iran, Mr Mohammed Mokhber, laid a symbolic foundation stone during a ceremony on September 2 to mark the [...]

THE general manager of Turkish State Railways (TCDD), Mr Hasan Peziik, says 57% of civil works on the 177.5km Banaz--E[section]me--Salihli--Manisa section of the 508km Ankara Izmir high-speed line have been [...]

THE Administrative Court of Estonia has ruled that the request to undertake an environmental impact assessment (EIA) process for the construction of a rail tunnel between Estonia and Finland must [...]

KOREA published its 4th Nationwide Railway Plan on April 22 outlining the country's future rail strategy. After a review by the Railroad Industry Commission, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and [...]

A testing and innovation centre that aims to provide a showcase for Britain's rail industry and create the country's first net-zero railway is now under construction in South Wales. Robert [...]

New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has opened bidding for the first construction contract for Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway, the 2.4km Q train service extension from 96th [...]

THE governments of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan have signed a joint protocol to build the 760km UAP Railway connecting the three countries. The line would run from Termiz in Uzbekistan, [...]

A joint venture of Webuild and Shibh A1 Jazira Contracting (SAJCO) has been awarded a 1.4bn [euro] contract to design and build a 57km, 230km/h passenger and freight line in [...]

THE Philippines Department of Transportation (DOTr) has rejected the idea of offering three rail projects worth around Pesos 300bn ($US 5.5bn) to the private sector, instead refiling an application with [...]

Mott Macdonald has been selected as prime designer and Scarborough Transit Connect (STC), a 50:50 joint venture of Aecom and FCC Canada, has been selected as development partner for the [...]

THE European Commission (EC) has published a list of 10 pilot projects to introduce new cross-border passenger services or improve existing connections. In order of planned starting date, they are: [...]

THE Swedish government's decision to shelve the country's high-speed rail project in December ended, at least for now, a near decade-long debate over the scheme. Sweden was split over whether [...]

INDIAN Railways (IR) plans to start construction this year on a 57km broad-gauge line connecting Kokrajhar in India to Gelephu in Bhutan. The cost of the project is estimated at [...]

KOREA'S Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on November 28 that the Won 261.4bn ($US 200m) project to build the Wirye Line in Seoul had been approved by the [...]

Historic heatwaves, torrential rain and widespread drought were reminders for us all throughout 2022 of the urgent need to address climate change. While passenger operators are still working out how [...]

Huge investment is underway in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area in Canada. Metrolinx CEO and president Phil Verster provided an update on the various schemes at a Cutric event [...]

WITH a portfolio that includes rail projects in California, Saudi Arabia, New York City, Cairo and Athens, Hill International is well placed to assess the current condition of the global [...]

WHILE Brazil's freight railways have continued to prosper despite the coronavirus pandemic, urban passenger operators have seen a reduction in the number of users and revenue which is negatively impacting [...]

Tunnelling has started on the Broadway Subway project in Vancouver, a 5.7km extension of the Millennium Line on the SkyTrain automated metro. The Broadway Subway will run from VCC-Clark to [...]

A consortium of Mota-Engil and China Railway Construction (CRCC) has been awarded urban rail contracts in Columbia and Mexico. This includes a 1.3bn[euro] five-year contract to construct metro lines 4, [...]