Alstom team to build €1bn, 41km light rail line between Haifa and Nazareth
This post was originally published on this site Nazareth (Leonid Andronov/Dreamstime) A team of France’s Alstom along with Israel’s Electra and Minrav have won a…
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The pressure’s on for tunnellers pioneering hyperbaric excavation in Italy
This post was originally published on this site Workers have to sit in a compression chamber for 20 minutes before they can go to the…
EU to lend €325m for 120km Albania rail line
This post was originally published on this site Joe Quirke A shepherd in a forest in Vorë, central Albania (Daniel Reiner/Dreamstime) Albania has been awarded…
China, Hungary agree rail schemes and ‘full-spectrum’ nuclear cooperation
This post was originally published on this site David Rogers The Hungarian Parliament in Budapest. One of the proposed projects is a rail bypass of…
China hands running of Ethiopia-Djibouti railway to locals
This post was originally published on this site David Rogers The port of Djibouti now handles 90% of Ethiopia’s trade with a value of around…
$8bn China-Kyrgyzstan railway ‘to start in October’
This post was originally published on this site David Rogers Japarov’s Facebook page carries this image of him meeting Wang Tongjun, a senior executive of…
Serbian leg of Belgrade-to-Budapest railway to open this year
This post was originally published on this site David Rogers China Railways’ image of work under way on the line Contractors have finished laying track…
Construction starts on high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles
This post was originally published on this site Joe Quirke Las Vegas (Sean Pavone/Dreamstime) Construction has begun on the US’ first true high-speed rail line,…
Ukraine starts building its railway to Europe
This post was originally published on this site Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal looks on as the first tracks are laid for its European-gauge railway…
Bangladesh ends $1.5bn Chinese rail upgrade after nine years of talks
This post was originally published on this site David Rogers Srimangal station on the metre-gauge Akhaura–Sylhet line (Nicolas De Corte/Dreamstime) Bangladesh Railway (BR) has cancelled…