Rail Projects

Alstom has successfully delivered the new signalling system for Hong Kong’s MTR West Island Line which started passenger service on 28 December, 2014. Hong Kong’s...

Tracklaying on the Borders Railway should be completed by February allowing driver training to start this summer. David Shirres reports. When the Waverley route between Edinburgh and Carlisle closed in 1969, the Borders region became the largest in the UK without a rail link. This is about to change with the re-opening of the northern section of this line in September 2015 which will be the UK’s longest new domestic railway for over a hundred years.

The first section of railway to be used by Crossrail trains has been laid on Stockley Flyover, a new railway bridge in west London. However,...

HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins has urged the creation of a new east-west rail link between the two prongs of Britain’s future Y-shaped high-speed rail network. The conclusions of...

The team of engineers who worked round the clock to reopen the Dawlish railway following storms that breached the sea wall has been awarded...

Trains can now run the entire length of the Cambrian Coast line thanks to a new bridge at Llandecwyn in Gwynedd. The road and rail...

The Thameslink Project is proving a treasure trove for archaeologists and historians. Hundreds of artefacts including medieval floors, 16th century tobacco pipes and thousand-year-old timbers...

Paris Gare du Nord is 150 this year and it’s starting to show. Europe’s busiest station has been at the centre of a number of modernisations...

After surfacing at Stepney Green, Tunnel Boring Machine Jessica, travelled by road to her next job at Canning Town. To make the trip, Jessica was...

Crossrail’s operations director, Howard Smith, talks to Marc Johnson about where the project is going in 2014. Crossrail is a project in transition. As 2014 moves...

Eurotunnel’s 20th anniversary marks a personal triumph for Jacques Gounon, the quietly spoken headmaster’s son from Créteil in south-east Paris. Writes Andy Milne The civil...

Crossrail Ltd is managing to fill over a third of its jobs with women compared to just one in five in the rest of...

The installation of a bridge over the River Dulnain will enable the historic Strathspey Railway to eventually extend its heritage line from Broomhill to...

April 2014 signalled the start of Control Period 5 (CP5). Over the next five years Network Rail will spend £38 billion maintaining, renewing and...

Rail staff and the public are being asked what they think about the proposed Forth Bridge Experience. The multi-million pound development could see the Forth...

A huge new station on a 350 acre site in central Birmingham has been proposed for HS2. Birmingham City Council aims to make Birmingham...

Upwards of 300 rail engineers and railway staff are working round the clock to rebuild the storm-hit coastal railway between Dawlish and Teignmouth. Engineers believe...

To drive down costs and speed up the delivery of HS2 the project should be started at Manchester and Leeds as a well as...