The ₹184,000,000 (£1.8 bn) bridge will stretch from Sewri, a locality in South Mumbai, to the port of Nhava Sheva across the Thane Creek inlet, reducing travel time around the inlet from 2.5 hours to around 20 minutes and linking Mumbai to centres including Goa, Pune to the south and…
Network Rail and Story Contracting have successfully installed a new railway bridge at Ravenscraig on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) on time following nine days of round-the-clock working.
The lift of the 5,000t bridge near South Lanarkshire is believed to be the largest of its kind in Europe. The £16.9M…
Eric Wright Civil Engineering has started main construction on the £7.4M replacement Clyde Road Bridge after years of setbacks.
The work follows the installation of pre-cast concrete piles for the substructure by specialist contractor Aarsleff. The bridge is being constructed for South Lanarkshire Council as a replacement of the reinforced concrete…
A 1.1km bridge over the Daugava River in Latvia that combines road and high-speed rail will be constructed as part of the Rail Baltica project.
Rail Baltica is an 870km high-speed electrified rail line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with further connections to Finland and Poland. It is the largest infrastructure…
A steel truss bridge that collapsed in Colombia’s western province was inspected only three months ago.
Local authorities are investigating the cause of the failure of a bridge spanning La Vieja River in the municipality of La Tebaida, western central Colombia, which collapsed on 12 April. According to Colombia’s National Infrastructure…
A scheme to repair and refurbish a road bridge in Porth, South Wales, will continue on Monday 17 April.
Contractor Centregreat will replace the bearings on the northern side of the bridge, conduct remedial works to a wingwall, waterproof the bridge and complete final resurfacing work in its second phase of…
Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines has said that closing the Nuneham Viaduct was “absolutely the right decision”.
Haines made the comment on the day of a visit to the works at the viaduct and shared images from the site detailing the damage to the southern abutment that led to the…
The cost of a new road bridge to be built on the restored Northumberland rail line has risen from £11M estimated in 2021 to £30.6M, with inflation blamed for the cost hike.
In March, the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that the Northumberland railway line between Ashington and Newcastle is being…
Morbi municipality in India has been dissolved by the Gujarati government after it was found that multiple failures of civic duty led to the collapse of a pedestrian bridge, killing 135 and injuring over 180 more last autumn.
The failure of the 230m-long, 1.25m-wide bridge, known as Julto Pul, near the…
India’s Northeast Frontier Railway (NF Railway) is nearing the completion of the world’s tallest pier railway bridge in Manipur, standing 141m above the ground.
The 703m long Noney Bridge crosses River Ijai near the town of Noney will surpass the current record holder, Mala-Rijeka viaduct in Montenegro, which stands 139m above…
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