LYON Transport Authority, Sytral has started utility relocation works to enable full construction of Line T6 to begin in September 2017. The 6.7km light rail line is due to open at the end of 2019.
THE French city of Bordeaux opened a branch line extension to Line C of its light rail network on December 17.
A second rail link between London and Oxford was completed on December 11 with the start of a new 30-minute-interval service operated by Chiltern Railways.
BRITAIN’s secretary of state for transport, Mr Chris Grayling, has announced changes to the way the railway is run in England which he says will improve the reliability of rail services.
PRODUCTION of pre-stressed concrete sleepers has started at a new plant built in Bolivia by Bolivian Cement Company (Soboce) and equipped, set up and tested by Wegh Group, Italy.
THE Finnish City of Tampere has signed an agreement with Pöyry, YIT and VR Track to implement the city’s €238.8m light rail project, with the Finnish government funding 70% of the infrastructure cost.
PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has officially launched the construction of the 120km Phase 2A of the 489km standard-gauge railway linking Mombasa with the Ugandan border.
KENYA’s National Environment Tribunal has suspended the construction of the $US 1.5bn standard-gauge railway line extension from Nairobi to Naivasha.
THE US city of Charlotte has issued a call for tender for the construction of Phase 2 of its CityLynx light rail Gold Line, adding extensions totalling 4km at each end of the 2.4km Phase 1 which opened in mid-2015.
CONSTRUCTION of the 375km Awash - Weldia railway in Ethiopia achieved a major milestone during the weekend of August 7-8 with the holing through of a 1530m-long tunnel, just over one year after tunnelling started.