Saudi Arabia threatened to turn Qatar into an island in 2018. Now, they’re building a high-speed railway. At the start of the decade, construction firms eyeing work in the Gulf…

Canada used to be the only G7 country without a dedicated pathway to a rail engineering degree, but with an explosion in rail transit mega projects now underway, that has…

Budimex, the Polish subsidiary of Spain’s Ferrovial, has announced the opening of Warsaw West railway station, Poland’s busiest, after a project spanning five years. It can now handle up to…

Ireland’s national rail operator Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) has appointed Mott MacDonald to lead its “Connect” intercity rail improvement programme. Funded by the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility and Ireland’s National…

The European Commission has unveiled an ambitious plan to transform rail travel across the European Union, promising to halve journey times on major routes and establish high-speed rail as the…

The Polish megaproject Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) has launched a tender for the design and construction of a railway station, tunnel and platform hall underneath the country’s new international airport,…

Mota-Engil has locked in over €1bn in new rail contracts in Mexico, cementing its position as one of Latin America’s top infrastructure players and pushing its total Mexican portfolio close…

Construction has begun on the $3.5bn AirTrain monorail system at New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport, undertaken on behalf of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The…

Saudi Arabia’s first sea-to-sea rail corridor is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the Middle East. Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia began building its long-awaited $7bn “Landbridge” railway, which…

The EU’s European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Costa Rica $250m for the country’s first electric railway, a 51km commuter line connecting the capital San José to the district of…

French engineer Systra has acquired Spanish transport company Ardanuy Ingeniería for an undisclosed sum. The deal could help Systra move into Spanish, Portuguese and Hispanic American rail infrastructure markets. Ardanuy…

The “MPA Delivery Partners” joint venture of Mace, Parsons, and Arcadis has won a $665m, 4.5-year contract extension to keep delivering the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York. The…

Denmark-headquartered design and engineering consultant Cowi has been picked as lead designer for the second phase of the nearly $2bn Second Avenue Subway project in New York City. It will…

A Spanish consortium of Elecnor and Vinci subsidiary Cobra will electrify 870km of railway for Rail Baltica across Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia in what’s billed as Europe’s largest rail electrification…

The Polish subsidiary of Austria’s Strabag has won a €298m contract from national railway operator PKP for construction around Maksymilianowo railway station. Work involves modernisation of the 201 rail line,…

A joint venture of Jacobs and HDR will provide engineering consultancy for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Interborough Express Light Rail Project.

A consortium led by Spain’s Acciona has won a contract to design and build the westward extension of Toronto’s Line 5 Eglinton. On behalf of Ontario transport body Metrolinx, the…

A trio of teams has won contracts worth a combined $2.6bn for new and upgraded Amtrak facilities in Boston, New York and Washington, DC. The design and build contacts for…