The World Trade Center Transportation Hub was partly opened to the public in March 2016, 12 years after it was initially proposed. Dubbed “the world's most expensive train station” for its $4bn price ...

The new units for Metro Santiago will be fully automated, with all functions managed from a central control centre. Credit: CAF. Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has secured contracts ...

The first phase will focus on replacing the Class 150, 155, and 156 trains. Credit: Northern Rail. British train operating company Northern Trains has announced plans for a fleet upgrade, potentially ...

Track construction work on the Bullet Train viaduct near Navsari in Gujarat. Credit: NHSRCL. The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) in India has entered into an agreement with Larsen & ...

Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded two civil contracts with a combined value of $392.51m (S$526m) for the construction of four Jurong Region Line (JRL) stations and associated ...

In May this year, Northern installed 621 new ticket vending machines across its network, under a comprehensive modernisation scheme. Credit: Northern Rail. Northern Rail in the UK has reportedly shut ...

Abidjan Metro, also known as Metro d’Abidjan, is a 37km-long elevated rapid transit network being developed by French companies in coordination with the Ivory Coast Government to address traffic ...

High-speed railways combine both speed and efficiency. From the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan to the French TGV, high-speed trains have a history that spans several decades. The evolution of ...

Sewage from train toilets continues to be emptied onto certain railway lines in the UK, despite vows by authorities to stop this practice. A House of Commons briefing paper from 2017 estimated that ...

Europe has a long history of high-speed trains, being an early adopter after the first high-speed rail system, the Tokaido Shinkansen, began operations in Japan. Since France’s TGV network began ...

With an annual ridership of 3.334 billion in 2013, a 1.25% increase from the previous year, the Tokyo Subway is the world’s busiest metro system. The 310km rapid transit network serves the Greater ...

Crossrail is a capacity enhancement rail project centred on London. It involves the laying of new 118km rail track from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.