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