Rail infrastructure news
Agreement to cut Californian rail project red tape
USA: The California State Transportation Agency and California High-Speed Rail Authority have renewed a 2019 agreement under which the state has taken on the Federal Railroad Administration’s environmental review responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Australian ETCS interoperability initiative underway
AUSTRALIA: Wabtec and interstate infrastructure manager Australian Rail Track Corp are collaborating on the development of a set of standards to facilitate the deployment of ETCS technology across the country’s long-distance trunk routes.
Work to replace Susquehanna River Bridge gets underway
USA: A ceremony in northeast Maryland on July 19 marked the start of early construction works for a $2·7bn project to replace the Susquehanna River Bridge which forms a bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor.
Vale completes design of Anchieta – Kennedy railway
BRAZIL: Mining company Vale submitted engineering design documents for the 92∙8 km Ferrovia Kennedy to the Espírito Santo state government in early July.
New York East River Tunnel rehabilitation contract awarded
USA: Amtrak has appointed a joint venture of Skanska and E-J Electric Installation Co to undertake the East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project to modernise the four bores connecting New York Penn Station with Queens.
‘TBM in a can’ plan makes progress at HS2 site in west London
UK: Construction of HS2 Ltd’s Green Park Way ventilation shaft at Greenford in west London has entered a crucial phase, as preparations ramp up ahead of the arrival and subsequent recovery of four tunnel boring machines at the site.
Skanska awarded Empire Corridor bridge replacement contract
Innovation funding supports sustainable decommissioning of HS2 worksites
Vossloh acquires French turnout and signalling contractor
ÖBB awards €100m ETCS upgrading contract
Kazakhstan: Transit freight drives KTZ expansion
Porto – Lisboa high speed project and Rail Baltica lead latest Connecting Europe Facility grant allocations
Five electrified railway lines at risk from climate change
Bayern to award electric-hydrogen-battery tilting train operating contract
Automated detection of lineside vegetation on test
Burnham bullish on Liverpool – Manchester fast line prospects
East Coast four-tracking contract awarded
Joint border crossing to accelerate Serbia – Montenegro train services
All contracts awarded for Victoria section of Inland Rail project
‘All systems go’ for Hudson Tunnel Project as funding finalised
Construction of Niš railway bypass launched
Humanoid robot to maintain Japanese railway infrastructure
Sprinter corridor double-tracking project gets grant
Poland recommits to CPK high speed rail programme