Hungary’s government said it is planning to channel €6bn into a “Dubai-style” hub around a partly disused railway station in Budapest, local media reported yesterday. Janos Lazar, the country’s construction…

El Salvador plans to invest $700m in building its first modern railway to improve communication inside the country and with neighbouring states, local daily Diario El Salvador reports.  Romeo Rodríguez,…

Two Korean companies have signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s rail operator to aid the rebuilding of railways in the war torn country. According to The Korea Times, Korea’s…

Seville-headquartered digital and engineering consultant Ayesa has won two high-profile projects this month: a section of high-speed railway in Poland and a bridge in Italy. In Poland it will design…

Kazakhstan Railway (Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, or KTZ) began work this week on a rail bypass around the commercial capital of Almaty. It will run between the towns of Zhetygen and…

Sweco with Spanish partner TYPSA have won a $23.5m contract to provide site supervision, works coordination, and expert support services for a new 11.5km metro line in Stockholm. The new…

Bangladesh Railways has opened a 104km railway that extends its network from the previous terminus of Dohazari to the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar, The Daily Star reports.  The project…

The European Commission has given a green light to Hitachi Rail’s €1.6bn acquisition of Thales Ground Transportation Systems. To make the deal possible, Hitachi is divesting its signalling businesses in…

The African Development Bank has loaned Namibia $196m towards the second phase of its Transport Infrastructure Improvement Project (TIIP). The money accounts for 52% of the total project cost; the…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to lend €992m to Czechia to help it upgrade its railways and cut road freight. The loan, the EIB’s largest to the country,…

China Communications (CCCC) has offered to invest in several infrastructure projects in Vietnam, including the country’s high-speed North-South Railway, news website VNExpress reports. The proposal was made by Bai Yinzhan,…

Work on Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) passed the half-way mark in August, said Datuk Hasbi Habibollah, the country’s deputy transport minister. According to the New Straits Times, he…

US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg expressed support for funding high-speed rail projects at a House Transportation Committee oversight meeting this week.

Chicago is gearing up for a major infrastructure project: the $3.6bn, 5.6-mile overground extension of the Red rail transit line from its current southern terminus at 95th Street/Dan Ryan down to 130th Street near Altgeld Gardens.

Polish rail technology start-up Nevomo this week unveiled its MagRail Booster retrofit technology at the Trako International Railway Fair in Gdansk.

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia has pledged to fix the Greater Jakarta Light Rail Transit line after technical issues came to light following its inauguration on Monday 28 August. Local…

Egypt’s National Railways has announced a plan to modernise the 125km rail corridor that runs along the east bank of the Nile between Cairo, Giza and the city of Beni…

Kenya has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to build a 3,000km standard gauge railway network between its newly completed Lamu Port and Addis Ababa, the East Africannews site reports.   Work…