Latvia says its Rail Baltica main line cannot be built by 2030
Latvia's transport ministry says building the Rail Baltica main line in Latvia by 2030 is technically impossible, in a statement on the cabinet's 1 October review of the project.
Rail Infrastructure News
Chennai Metro picks Capacit’e for Thirumangalam property development work
Capacit'e Infraprojects has secured a letter of acceptance worth about ₹368.98 crore, excluding GST, to construct Chennai Metro property development buildings along the viaduct near Thirumangalam Metro Station.
HS2 joins both halves of Wendover green tunnel, with portals and road next
HS2 has completed the central section of the Wendover green tunnel in Buckinghamshire, joining both halves of its 1.4km cut-and-cover structure when the final segment was placed on 5 October.
Florida puts incident-prone rail crossings first under $356 million grant
A federal grant of up to $356 million will fund Florida grade crossing upgrades at up to 910 sites, putting locations with the highest incident history first.
Network Rail completes £7.1m East Coast Main Line upgrade north of Newcastle
Network Rail has completed £7.1 million of East Coast Main Line improvements between Newcastle and Scotland, renewing track, points, overhead line equipment and drainage over three weekends of closures.
China opens 1,142 km of high-speed rail in a day, two-fifths of 2025’s additions
Four high-speed rail lines with a combined 1,142 km entered service in China on 28 September, roughly two-fifths of the new high-speed line the country commissioned in all of 2025.
Deutsche Bahn starts digging Stuttgart’s Wartberg Tunnel for extra tracks
Deutsche Bahn began excavating the Wartberg Tunnel in Stuttgart on 5 October 2026, starting a roughly 700-metre link for third and fourth tracks between the main station and Feuerbach.
Hong Kong high-speed rail delay costs MTR HK$2.25bn, a decade after HK$19.42bn overrun
MTR Corporation will pay the government HK$2.25 billion over Hong Kong high-speed rail delays, more than a decade after the project's cost estimate rose by HK$19.42 billion.
USDOT puts all $426.7M of INFRA Track 1 grants into highway projects
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $426.7 million in INFRA grants to 12 highway projects in 12 states, the whole Track 1 pool of its latest round.
About 2% of Liverpool port containers go by rail. A study maps routes around Manchester
An independent study maps new Port of Liverpool rail freight routes via Blackburn that avoid Manchester, at a time when an estimated 2% of the port's containers move by rail.
SPMTs set a Budapest rail bridge span in one weekend without road piles
Mammoet's self-propelled modular transporters (SPMTs) carried the 2,200-tonne south span of Budapest's new Közvágóhíd railway bridge into place, limiting the Soroksári út closure to a single weekend.
Amtrak picks first B&P Tunnel grantees under 2017 mitigation requirement
Amtrak has selected 11 West and Central Baltimore organizations for more than $4.1 million in B&P Tunnel community grants, the first round of a planned $50 million commitment.
