A consortium of companies including mining giant Rio Tinto has broken ground on a 650km railway in the West African state of Guinea to ship iron ore. The “Trans-Guinean Railway”…

Contractors have finished laying track on the remaining Serbian section of the new, China-backed north-south railway between the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and Budapest, capital of Hungary. Costing $1bn, the 108km…

Construction has begun on the US’ first true high-speed rail line, a 351km link between Las Vegas and Southern California. The $12bn Brightline West, which will travel at speeds of…

Ukraine’s rail operator Ukrainian Railways has started building a European-gauge railway in the west of the country intended to link up with European railways, the operator announced on X, formally…

Morocco has issued a tender for a 375km high-speed railway between the port of Kenitra north of Rabat on the Atlantic coast to the city of Marrakech in the southwest.…

A team led by US engineers Aecom and Jacobs has won Amtrak’s first ever “delivery partner” contract, which will tackle a $6bn upgrade of a rail corridor in Baltimore, Maryland.…

Bulgaria’s national rail company will build a railway in the Black Sea city of Burgas linking Burgas Airport to the city’s central railway station, with an estimated cost of €53m,…

China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has begun work on a 575km railway through the Sahara desert, between the Algerian iron ore mine at Gara Djebilet and the Moroccan rail system,…

Cimic Group company UGL has won a A$110m contract in joint venture with fellow Australian builder Adco to build new railcar maintenance plant at Bellevue, Western Australia, for the State’s…

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has cancelled a rail upgrade scheme in the northeast of the country after talks with a Chinese contractor that dragged on for nine years, local newspaper The…

Central Japan Railway (JR Central) said on Friday that it had abandoned its plan to complete an ultra-high-speed railway between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027, Kyodo News reports.  JR Central…

Italy’s Trevi Group, with joint venture partner Wagstaff Piling, have landed a groundworks role on Melbourne’s US$8.36bn North East Link transport megaproject, Trevi told GCR today. The JV is building…

The World Bank, through its International Development Association, has approved a $200m loan to fund improvements on one of Tanazania’s two main railways, the narrow-gauge line running 970km between the…

A Chinese train-making company has withdrawn from a €610m Bulgarian tender after the European Commission opened a first-of-its-kind investigation into the company.  CRRC Qingdao Sifan, a subsidiary of the world’s…

China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will form a company to build a 523km rail link between western China and Uzbekistan, the Railway Supply website reports. The decision was made during a…

The Honduran commission planning a railway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans presented its proposals to country delegations this week, local media report. The US, Japan, South Korea, Spain, China,…

Re-elected Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a virtual appearance at a groundbreaking ceremony for the high-speed railway between Moscow and St Petersburg, state news agency Tass reports. The link…

A joint venture between engineer Eiffage (80%) and state-owned rail freight company Captrain has won a €415m contract from SNCF Réseau to renovate France’s rail system. The project will take…