With 79m below ground, Washington Park station is the deepest tansit station in North America. It opened in September 1998 as part of the Westside MAX extension to Beaverton and Hillsboro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Park_station_(TriMet)
#RailwaySunday #TriMet #railway #trains #WashingtonPark #Portland #Oregon #US
A new 20 million GBP project to upgrade overhead power lines on #Scotland’s first #electrified railway has officially begun.
Work is set to focus on sections of the North Clyde lines, which run from #Helensburgh, #Balloch and #Milngavie through #Glasgow’s west end and low‑level stations.
https://railway-news.com/20-million-upgrade-begins-on-scotlands-first-electrified-railway/
#RailwaySunday #Europe #NorthClyde #infrastructure #electification #sustainability #climate #railway #trains
President Kassym-Jomart #Tokayev of #Kazakhstan opened the first #metro line in the capital #Astana on May 16.
The 22.4km elevated light metro runs from Nurly Zhol, Astana’s main station, south via the national museum, Astana Arena and the university to the city’s international airport. The line has 18 stations of which 11 are at street level and seven are elevated.
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/metros/kazakh-president-opens-astanas-first-metro-line/
Two #Bombardier TRAXX F140 MS (Re 484 018 and Re 484 017) from #SBB Cargo with an intermodal freight train heading south near #Wynigen.
Photo credit: Nelso Silva/CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flickr.com/photos/nelsosilva/51367622786/
#RailwaySunday #Switzerland #SwissFederalRailways #SBBCargo #trains #railway
Syndicated financing worth over $US 2.33bn has been arranged by Standard Chartered to fund construction of the remaining three sections of the 1219km Dar es Salaam - Mwanza Phase 1 of Tanzania’s Standard Gauge Railway programme.
https://www.railjournal.com/regions/africa/new-financing-for-tanzanias-standard-gauge-railway/
#RailwaySunday #Tanzania #Africa #economy #politics #infrastructure #railway #trains #StandardGaugeRailway #SRG
Construction of the 120km high-speed line from #Hanoi to #Halong in the northern Vietnamese province of #QuangNinh has officially started, marked by a groundbreaking ceremony on April 12 that was attended by the prime minister of #Vietnam, Le Minh Hung.
Due for completion by the end of 2028, the line will cut the journey time between Hanoi and Halong to 23 minutes.
https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/high-speed/vietnam-breaks-ground-on-first-high-speed-line/
A tram in #Milan, #Italy. Definitely not designed with #accessability in mind, but the carriage has charme. Not a heritage ride, but still in active use.
#RailwaySunday #LightRail #PublicTransport #train #railway #urban
The deputy prime minister of #Vietnam, Ho Duc Phoc, has approved the restructuring of #VietnamRailways over the period from 2026 to 2030, including the adoption of an operating model based on a group structure of parent company and subsidiaries.
The parent company, Vietnam National Railways Group, will be a single-member limited liability company with 100% state-owned charter capital.
https://www.railjournal.com/policy/vietnam-railways-restructuring-approved/
Puhung station of the #Pyongyang Metro. The pictured Type D rolling stock was bought second-hand from #Germany in the late 1990ies.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Mario Micklisch/CC BY 2.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyongyang_Metro_(21560297299).jpg
#RailwaySunday #Asia #NorthKorea #Puhung #RapidTransit #metro #trains
2/2 The SGR will then continue west for a further 107km to the border with Uganda at #Malaba where it will join the under-construction Ugandan SGR to Kampala.
https://www.railjournal.com/regions/africa/construction-starts-on-next-section-of-kenyan-sgr/
#RailwaySunday #Africa #Uganda #Kampala #railway #trains #transport #infrastructure #SGR
Manuel Erhardt
