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Sydney Trains service at Redfern station with overhead wiring above the platforms

27.08.2026

Suburban Rail Loop Contract Awards Pause Hits Six Stations

Sydney Trains service at Chatswood station beneath overhead wiring

25.08.2026

Sydney Trains overhead wiring support cable snaps

Platforms at Box Hill railway station in Melbourne

25.08.2026

Suburban Rail Loop savings: About Half Identified

Conceptual rendering of Australia’s Newcastle–Sydney High Speed Rail project

18.08.2026

Australia Puts Three Teams in a 35km Tunnel Race

AUSTRALIA: Three international construction consortia have been shortlisted to design 35 km of twin tunnels for the Newcastle–Sydney High Speed Rail project between Berowra and Ourimbah.
Track replacement work near Waterloo East station, London

18.08.2026

What the London Charing Cross Closure Delivered

UK: Southeastern services returned to London Charing Cross and Waterloo East on Aug. 17 after a 22-day closure that delivered £20 million in track, platform and bridge upgrades.
Railway inspectors assessing Hudson Bay Railway track and bridge infrastructure

18.08.2026

Hudson Bay Railway Maps a Path to Heavier Trains

CANADA: SYSTRA Canada has begun a Hudson Bay Railway capacity study to identify infrastructure upgrades needed for heavier trains and growing freight traffic to the Port of Churchill.
Kettle Valley Steam Railway locomotive No. 3716 on the Trout Creek Trestle

18.08.2026

Kettle Valley Railway Escapes Wildfire Damage

CANADA: The Kettle Valley Steam Railway says its train, trestle and track survived the Bald Range wildfire near Summerland, British Columbia, though train service stays suspended while the fire remains active.
Railway tracks and overhead electrification at Ciulnița station after the Hitachi Rail signalling upgrade

18.08.2026

Romania Switches Two Stations to New Hitachi Signals

ROMANIA: Hitachi Rail has completed Romania's first deployment of its new L90 RO electronic interlocking platform at Ciulnița and Fetești stations, replacing the legacy SELMIS equipment previously used at the two stations on the Bucharest–Constanța line.
Officials beside a train during Amtrak’s reopening of East River Tunnel Line 2 in New York

18.08.2026

Amtrak Reopens East River Tunnel at Full Capacity

USA: More than 13 years after Superstorm Sandy flooded it with 14 million gallons of saltwater, one of two damaged East River Tunnel tubes is carrying trains again at full capacity — and Amtrak says everything it learned fixing this one will shape how it fixes the other.
Rail track infrastructure on Aurizon’s Central Queensland Coal Network

18.08.2026

Aurizon Network’s EBIT Climbs 10% to $640M

AUSTRALIA: The part of Aurizon that doesn't haul a single tonne of coal — it just charges other trains to use its tracks — grew its earnings faster than the company's freight operations did in the past fiscal year.
SRL East construction site at Box Hill, Melbourne

18.08.2026

Councils Want SRL “Bussed” Before Rail Is Built

AUSTRALIA: Nine outer-Melbourne councils have a blunt pitch for the Victorian government on its multi-billion-dollar Suburban Rail Loop: run high-frequency buses along the corridor now, and worry about laying the actual rail tracks later.
Madurai Junction Platform 1 with an Indian Railways locomotive in Tamil Nadu before redevelopment

18.08.2026

Madurai Junction Gets 37 Lifts in ₹413cr Overhaul

INDIA: Madurai's main railway station is being rebuilt with two G+3 terminal buildings, a 42-metre-wide air concourse, and a direct subway link to the city's Periyar bus stand — a redevelopment that will add 37 lifts and 27 escalators to a station that currently has neither in significant numbers.
A Southern Rail Class 377 train at Lewes railway station, East Sussex, on the line affected by the August 2026 derailment

18.08.2026

Lewes Line Closed 10 More Days After Derailment

UK: Railway Supply previously reported the Lewes derailment as it happened; the railway between Lewes and Haywards Heath will now stay shut for at least 10 more days, and the reason comes down to where the train came off the tracks, not just how badly.
Silver Roman denarius bearing the image of Emperor Carausius found during East West Rail archaeological survey work

18.08.2026

Railway Dig Finds Coin of a Rogue Roman Emperor

UK: A coin unearthed during trial trenching for East West Rail carries the name of a man Rome tried to have executed — and who responded by declaring Britain an independent empire and minting his own currency to prove it.
California High-Speed Rail elevated guideway under construction in the Central Valley

18.08.2026

California HSR Narrows Depot Site to Fresno or Hanford

USA: California's high-speed rail authority has spent months evaluating 11 possible sites for its Central Valley maintenance depot; it's now down to two, and the choice will decide which of two Central Valley communities gets up to 2,100 permanent jobs.