Watchdog clear first Rail Baltica environmental impact assessment 

Rail Baltic Estonia OÜ and Tariston AS signed a contract in Rapla on Tuesday for the construction of the Hagudi-Alu section of the railway line in Rapla County, during which a total of seven kilometres of embankment will be built, together with accompanying facilities and infrastructure.

Some say endless jobs are “like painting the Forth Bridge”. In the West Country, they may well say it’s more like “track renewals in the Severn Tunnel”. Less danger of vertigo in the darkness under the river, but the view isn’t nearly as good as the one in Scotland.

The only off-shore self-contained railway in the British Isles faces a temporary closure. The line on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, requires immediate maintenance work. The whole Island Line, between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin, will close from Friday 6 September to Sunday 6 October.

This half-term, a group of eager 14 to 16-year-olds from all over the English East Midlands visited the cutting edge of railway engineering. They swapped their school uniforms for hard hats and safety vests. The students left the classroom behind and stepped into the fascinating world of railway engineering. Hosting them was Furrer+Frey GB, at…