Railway contractor VolkerRail has been fined £550,000 after a worker suffered a broken pelvis and several broken ribs when he was buried after the wall of a trench collapsed, Constructionmanagement.co.uk has reported. VolkerRail pleaded guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 after an […]
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Albania is seeking to invest in its railway system in the near future, including here a route that will connect the coastal city of Durres and Kosovo’s capital, Prishtina. The Albanian Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Belinda Balluku announced that there is an agreement with the government of Kosovo to start working […]
ProRail has awarded Thales implementation of its European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) Central Safety System (CSS) into the Dutch railway network. In the Netherlands, ProRail’s work covers 7,000 kilometres of track, building and managing train stations and regulating trains traffic (1.4 million journeys every working day). The contract […]
Since the inauguration of the railways by late King Abdulaziz more than 70 years ago, the Kingdom is experiencing a growth that has reached a rail network of more than 5,000 km
The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Transportation, has directed that the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service should resume on May 23. The spokesman for the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Yakub Mahmood, made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a Kaduna-bound […]
Systra is to provide independent certification for the short, cross-border rapid transit link planned across the Straits of Johor between Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and Singapore. The 4km line is scheduled to be commissioned at the end of 2026. With ridership expected to be 10,000 passengers an hour in each direction […]
South Africa is on a renewed journey towards high speed rail. If China makes headway, that will prepare Beijing for bigger role in the African Continental High Speed Railway Project.
The Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Mr Fidet Okhiria, said that Nigerians intending to travel by rail should get their National Identity Number ready as it would be a requirement from May 2022. The commission disclosed in Abuja on Thursday that the NIN would be needed to enhance […]
RT&S- he U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has established the new Corridor Identification and Development (ID) Program. This is the first step in an unprecedented undertaking to transform America’s passenger rail network through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Corridor ID Program will establish a pipeline of […]
London’s Elizabeth line has received its final authorisations of its trains, stations, and infrastructure from the rail regulator ahead of its opening on Tuesday 24 May.Cover ImageImage BodyComponents The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has issued approvals for all the Elizabeth line stations – with the exception of Bond […]