With extensive input from the community, Amtrak have announced a $460,000 plan to restore and revitalize with trees, shrubs, and fencing a section of its right-of- way along the Northeast Corridor in Woodside, Queens. Amtrak has hired a Landscape Horticulturist to assist in the selection and planting of approximately 600 new...

UK Rail minister Theresa Villiers visited St Albans station on Tuesday to mark the completion of platform extensions which will allow longer trains to call at the station from December 2011. St Albans is the third station now ready for 50% longer trains as part of the...

Minister of Transport Sibusiso Ndebele has signed a ground-breaking agreement on railways and other transport related matters with his counterpart Minister of Railways Mr Liu Zhijun in China. Minister Ndebele is part of the presidential delegation led by President Jacob Zuma during the state visit which...

The First Monster Challenge will add an extra event, aimed at families and children, to its race day proceedings on September 11. Inspired and based upon the First Monster Challenge, the 120km team relay duathlon around the shores of Loch Ness, organisers FirstGroup will add the ‘Mini Monster’ to its mix...

15th September 2010 is the 180th Anniversary of the world’s first inter-city passenger railway, the Liverpool & Manchester Railway (L&MR). A series of events are planned to celebrate the historic railway: 11th/12th and 18th/19th September: ‘Rocket’ and ‘Planet’ locomotives are in steam at MOSI (Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester). MOSI is...

South West Trains, working in partnership with Network Rail and Southampton City Council have announced the start of a £3 million scheme to bring passenger improvements to Southampton Central station.  The scheme, which will be delivered in phases, will provide a completely refurbished station with improved facilities for passengers including...

Mott MacDonald has been appointed detailed civil and structural design engineer for ten elevated metro stations in Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu by Consolidated Construction Company Limited. India’s fastest-growing economic region, Chennai has the country’s highest reliance on public transport. The proposed high capacity, high frequency metro will not...

LONDON UNDERGROUND’S biggest union today called on Tube users to demand an end to potentially lethal attacks on staffing and safety standards on the world’s premier metro system. As figures revealed that Boris Johnson’s planned jobs cull will result in the loss of 7,500 ticket-office hours every week, RMT urged passengers...

TUBE DRIVERS at London Underground’s White City Central Line depot have voted to strike if bosses fail to re-instate a colleague unfairly sacked over a minor incident. RMT members have delivered a more than two-to-one majority for action after London Underground, which says it has 300 more drivers than it needs,...

RMT TRAIN managers at Eurostar have voted overwhelmingly for action to stop the imposition from next month of ‘self-dispatch’ of services from Paris, a function currently undertaken by platform staff. After members voted by a margin of 24 to one for action in a ballot that closed today, Britain’s biggest rail...

Eastern Bloc vehicles from around the UK and overseas including Trabants, Wartburgs and Tatras, will be descending on Crich Tramway Village on Sunday 24th October for the annual Red Oktober Day. The event will include parades of cars driving down the Tramway street alongside the trams, recreating an authentic scene from...