Infrastructure news – Page 9
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NewsTurkish rail sector receives another bumper budget
TURKEY: The government has announced a 2024 rail programme which includes continued high levels of investment in both infrastructure and operations, and in the domestic design and manufacture of rail vehicles. State railway infrastructure manager TCDD has been allocated TL49·4bn towards its portfolio of agreed capital expenditure ...
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NewsOurense station remodelling contract awarded
SPAIN: High speed infrastructure manager ADIF Alta Velocidad announced on February 1 that it had awarded Copasa, Constructora San José and Syneox Rail a €112m contract to remodel Ourense station as a hub for rail and bus transport in northwestern Spain. The ...
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NewsMadrid Atocha through platforms contract awarded
SPAIN: High speed rail infrastructure manager ADIF Alta Velocidad has awarded Dragados, Tecsa, San José and Puentes y Calzadas an 83-month contract worth €451·6 m to build low-level platforms at Madrid Atocha station The two island platforms on the 1 435 mm gauge cross-city route from ...
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NewsDanish railway ready for 200 km/h operation
DENMARK: The railway between København and Ringsted via Køge Nord is now ready for 200 km/h running, infrastructure manager Banedanmark has announced.
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NewsConstruction of Seoul express Line C starts as part of the ‘first year of the GTX era’
SOUTH KOREA: Construction of Line C of the Great Train Express commuter rail network in Seoul started on January 25 with a groundbreaking ceremony at Uijeongbu attended by President Yoon Seok-yeol. The 86·5 km Line C will link Suwon in the south with Uijeongbu and Deokjeong ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew Jersey Transit pilots track monitoring ‘force multiplier’
Mock dashboard USA: Humatics has been awarded a 12-month contract to pilot its Focus track condition monitoring technology on the New Jersey Transit network. This will expand current trials from an initial 16 track-km of monitored track to more than 160 km. ...
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NewsTorino – Ceres line reconnected to national network
ITALY: Services restarted on the Torino – Ceres regional line between central Torino, Caselle airport and Cirié on January 20 following the completion of the first phase of remodelling and reconstruction works. An opening ceremony on the previous day was attended by Minister of Infrastructure and ...
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NewsConstruction of Western Attica suburban line begins
GREECE: Work has begin the build the Western Attica suburban line to the west of Athens. The route will run 34·6 km from Ano Liosia to Megara on the alignment of an abandoned metre gauge line. There will be seven stations serving communities and industries which ...
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NewsPort Harcourt – Aba tracklaying completed
NIGERIA: China Civil Engineering Construction Corp has announced the completion of tracklaying for the modernisation of the 1 067 mm gauge line running 63 km from Port Harcourt to Aba. Nigeria Railway Corp Managing Director Fidet Okhiria said services would commence in a few months once ...
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NewsRail projects awarded EU military mobility funding
EUROPE: Rail freight facility development and capacity enhancement projects are included in 38 schemes to upgrade transport infrastructure for dual civilian and defence purposes which have been selected to receive €807m of Connecting Europe Facility funding.
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NewsDaejeon suburban railway construction starts
SOUTH KOREA: Construction has started on the 35·4 km first phase of the Chungcheong Province suburban railway serving Daejeon.
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Rail Business UKConstruction of Birmingham Curzon Street HS2 station begins
UK: Main construction works for Birmingham Curzon Street High Speed 2 station were officially launched on January 24. The station has been designed by WSP and Grimshaw Architects, and according to HS2 Ltd is inspired by ‘the great arched roofs built by the Victorian railway pioneers’. ...
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NewsLimerick commuter rail station and upgrading studies commissioned
IRELAND: National railway Iarnród Éireann has appointed AtkinsRéalis to support the development of plans for three stations in Limerick and Dublin and an expansion of capacity on the line to Ennis. The Limerick Shannon Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy includes a proposal for the development of a ...
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NewsLyon – Torino tunnel boring machine handed over
EUROPE: The fourth of seven tunnel boring machines being used to excavate the Mont Cenis base tunnel has been formally presented to the Lyon – Torino project promoter TELT at Herrenknecht’s Schwanau factory in Germany, at a ceremony attended by Piemonte Region’s Transport Councillor, Marco Gabusi.
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In depthTrack Design: Introducing J-slab to India
Work has started on the installation of ballastless track on the Mumbai – Ahmedabad high speed line, marking the first application of J-slab technology in India. Two local production plants have been developed with support from Japanese consultants. Benjámin Zelki investigates.
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NewsBallastless track selected for Koper – Divača project
SLOVENIA: Project promoter 2TDK has selected RailOne’s Rheda 2000 slab track system for use on the second line being built on a new alignment to increase capacity between the port of Koper and the main line at Divača. The Institute of Civil Engineering of Slovenia, building ...
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NewsWork starts on next stage of Budapest southern ring capacity scheme
HUNGARY: Construction work on the second phase of the project to add capacity to Budapest’s Southern Circle railway ring between Kelenföld and Ferencváros started on January 15, the Ministry of Construction & Transport has announced.
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Rail Business UKDigital twin used to test novel turnout concept
UK: A digital twin simulation method has been developed to test a concept for a new design of turnout.
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In depthAutomation: Robel embraces robots
Robotics and automation are driving the development of the next generation of Robel’s track maintenance and measuring technology. Nick Kingsley reports from Freilassing.
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NewsWien S-Bahn ring plans announced
AUSTRIA: The Wien municipality has announced plans to create an S-Bahn ring from 2032 by combining two services and upgrading a freight-only line for passenger use. The orbital service would be formed from the existing S80 and S45 services; S45 trains would be extended from Handelskai ...