Rail union RMT has warned that the Queen’s Speech to be delivered to set up Great British Railways, the new state holding company for the UK’s rail infrastructure, will only deliver for private railway companies. RMT general secretary Michael Lynch said that Go-Ahead Group’s Govia has already been rewarded with […]
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According to reports, the construction of a major tunnel for its Yunnan-Tibet Railway project after more than eight years’ effort. The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain tunnel is located near Lijiang city in southwest China’s Yunnan province and connects China with Tibet. It is a part of the Lijiang-Shangri-La railway, a […]
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 66 By: Vali Kaleji The Russo-Ukrainian war, the extensive sanctions against Russia that the West adopted in response, and the growing possibility that European border states will block east-west transit routes traversing Russian territory into Europe, including the so-called Northern Corridor of China’s Belt […]
Casablanca, 9 May 2022 – Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jon-Pierre Fourie as Senior Director, Strategy and Investors Relations. His appointment takes effect from 9 May 2022. Jon-Pierre Fourie, a South African national joins Africa50 with over 21 years of industry experience. […]
The smell of burnt wire and rubber still lingered in the air around the railway power station on the outskirts of Lviv Wednesday morning, hours after the blaze was extinguished. A group of investigators was collecting debris from the Russian rockets that struck this place the evening before. Now it […]
The UIC has chosen the Kingdom of Morocco to host the UIC World Congress on High-Speed Rail in 2023, reflecting its position in the high-speed rail domain in Africa and the Middle East. The 11th edition of the Congress, to be held from 7 to 10 March 2023 at the […]
An explosive device damaged a railway bridge Sunday in the Kursk region of Russia, which borders Ukraine, and a criminal investigation has been started. The region’s government reported the blast in a post on Telegram. Recent weeks have seen a number of fires and explosions in Russian regions near the […]
Japanese railway company, Tokyu, says it now uses only renewable energy to power its train operations. That means Tokyu’s huge network of train lines in and around Tokyo do not produce any carbon dioxide emissions. The change took place April 1. Tokyu employs 3,855 people and connects Tokyo with the […]
Spanish national operator Renfe has implemented a package of service changes running until February 2023 on its Barcelona suburban network, in order to accommodate a €471m programme of works now being undertaken by infrastructure manager Adif and its high-speed counterpart Adif AV. The largest single project is costed at €152.9m […]
On Thursday the 7th of April 2022, the honorable Minister of Public Works and Transport Chief Ndlaluhlaza Ndwandwe led a delegation of his ministerial team, members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee and the Director of Public Enterprise Unit (PEU) on a working tour of ESR Projects and operation. The team […]