China approves £26bn for rail projects
China has approved the construction of six railways stretching more than 1,000 km and likely to cost about 250bn yuan […]
Infrastructure
Vietnam: north-south express railway project to be revised
Transport Minister Dinh La Thang has asked its subordinated agencies to revise the plan for the construction of a north-south […]
Slovenia: electrification works in Notranjsko region to be completed
Slovenian Infrastructure Minister Peter Gašperšič announced that the power lines of the Notranjsko railway infrastructure will be restored, The Slovenia […]
Oman Rail allots USD 6bn in construction tenders
Oman Rail has floated tenders for the construction of an additional 1,207 km of railway infrastructure linking the country’s three […]
Vienna to have its first automated metro line
Wiener Linien, the City of Vienna and the Austrian Transport Ministry announced that the new metro line U5 will become […]
Kazakhstan develops an Eurasian railway corridor with standard gauge
Work on the Eurasian transcontinental corridor project, the establishment of which was recently initiated by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan […]
Union Pacific: USD 20 mil for the rehabilitation of a rail line in Illinois
Union Pacific Railroad will invest more than USD 20 mil in Illinois’ railway infrastructure, in the rail line between Chester […]
Feasibility study for Slovakia – Austria broad gauge to be ready by 2016
Russia and Austria will be linked by a broad gauge rail line after a planned extension is laid to Vienna […]