The first phase of a light rail project in Lagos, Nigeria was commissioned this week, China Daily reports. Speaking at a banquet held before the inauguration ceremony, Nigerian president Muhammadu…

Some $60m is required to repair 23 of 40 trains operating on Addis Ababa’s Chinese-built light rail system, a city transport official told Ethiopian news site The Reporter. Mitku Asmare,…

Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan have agreed to establish a rail link through their countries giving Iran a direct rail connection to northern Europe, the Mehr news agency reports. Iran’s deputy…

Uganda has cancelled a deal with a Chinese contractor to build a $2.3bn railway after Beijing decided not to fund the scheme, Bloomberg reports. Perez Wamburu, Uganda’s project coordinator, told…

An entry from Dutch architect UNStudio, Spain’s b720 Arquitectura and Spanish engineer Esteyco has won a competition to remodel Madrid’s Chamartín station, the city’s second-largest rail hub. A 16-member jury…

Brightline West, the company building a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, is planning to begin work on its line next year, according to the Las Vegas…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend Uganda $301m to upgrade the Kampala–Malaba Metre Gauge Railway (MGR) to link the landlocked country to Kenya and its port of Mombasa. AfDB…

CPK, the company developing Poland’s $8bn integrated transport hub, has named the companies that will design a high-speed rail component of the project, Polish newspaper RP reports. Based around a…

The Connect 6ix consortium comprising Hitachi and Italy’s Webuild has reached financial close on the contract to deliver tracks, trains, systems, operations and maintenance for the Ontario Line, a new…

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing will invest in major projects in Cambodia including a $1.6bn expressway from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border and the upgrading of a railway…

Moroccan national railway company ONCF has named French infrastructure company Egis general consultant for external control for its high-speed line connecting Kenitra to Marrakesh. The 430km railway is divided into…

A consortium led by Dallas engineer Aecom has been chosen to provide programme management for the California High-Speed Rail, a 500-mile route that will connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.…