News China proposes $1bn revamp of Tanzania-Zambia railway China has offered to spend more than $1bn modernising the famous Tazara railway that links the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Zambia’s copper belt, Bloomberg reports. The…
News Egypt chooses consultants to design 34km Cairo metro line The Egyptian Ministry of Transport has chosen a joint venture of French consulting engineers Egis and Setec to work on the design of the second phase of Cairo Metro Line…
News Singapore awards two major Cross Island station contracts Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded two civil engineering contracts for interchanges on the second phase of its $30bn Cross Island Line rail project. A US$326m contract for the…
News Three teams in running for Canada’s largest infrastructure project Three consortiums have made the shortlist for a programme of rail work that aims to improve service between Québec City, Trois-Rivières, Montréal, Ottawa, Peterborough and Toronto, adding 1,000km of track…
News Worker meant to be supervising NY subway maintenance “regularly” flew to Florida instead A New York transit worker who was meant to monitor maintenance work on the city’s subway system often took unauthorised leave and travelled to Florida. An investigation by the Metropolitan…
News Alstom to build second Morocco plant French train manufacturer Alstom has announced plans to invest €15m (160 million Moroccan dirham) in building a new production line at its factory in Fez, Morocco. The Fez plant currently…
News Vinci JV wins €2.7bn contract for the Grand Paris Express Société du Grand Paris, the body in charge of building and running a group of rapid transit lines in the Paris city region, has awarded its first design-and-build contract to…
News New stations open on Milan’s M4 metro line San Babila and Tricolore Stations have opened to the public on Milan’s M4 metro Line, bringing the total number of stations on the line to eight and allowing for passengers…
News What a $6bn makeover will do for New York’s Penn Station Architects HOK and Practice for Architecture Urbanism (PAU) have unveiled their design for a $6bn transformation of New York’s Penn Station, the United States’ busiest rail hub. The plan calls…
News Testing of Mexico’s $7.4bn Mayan train line to start in August, president says Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said construction is 80% complete on the 480km stretch of the Maya train line that runs from Campeche to Cancún across the top of…
News China Railways to debut 450km/h bullet train “in near future” China Railways has announced plans to develop a bullet train capable of standard operating speeds of 450km/h. The CR450 train will be the latest model in the CR400 Fuxing (“Rejuvenation”)…
News Two firms in race to build Mumbai’s 21km bullet train tunnel Two Indian companies have entered bids to build India’s first undersea tunnel for the high-speed rail line between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Indian Express reports. Larsen & Toubro and Afcons Infrastructure…
News Spain’s Ardanuy Ingeniería to design seven Estonian stations for Rail Baltica Spanish consulting engineer Ardanuy Ingeniería has won a contract to design seven regional Rail Baltica stations in Estonia. The €368,000 contract includes work on platforms, overpasses, underpasses, outdoor areas, car…
News China and India compete to build rail links with Nepal India and China are competing to build rail connections – and influence – in the Himalayan state of Nepal, with India somewhat ahead in the race, according to a report…
News Historic deal: Siemens sells over a thousand locomotives to India German engineer Siemens has signed a €3bn contract to supply 1,200 electric freight locomotives to India, the largest such deal in the company’s history. Over the next 11 years it…
News Skanska hired to fit more commuters into Grand Central-42nd Street Station Skanska has been commissioned by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to improve circulation at New York City’s Grand Central-42nd Street Station. It sits next to Grand Central Terminal in…
News Webuild team completes Milan metro section Italian contractor Webuild has handed over six stations on Line 4 of the Milan Metro (M4). The 5.4km section links the stations of Linate Airport and Dateo in the east…