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Full electrification of India’s Odisha railway network achieved
- Mar, 22, 2023
- Transportation Engineering General Civil Energy Engineering General Construction News On Projects / Industry Other News
- India
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Indian Railways’ network in the state of Odisha has been 100% electrified. The Odisha broad gauge railway network is a 2,822km route and its electrification falls under Indian Railways’ plan to meet...
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Mont Blanc Tunnel to be closed for 3 months due to maintenance and renovation work
- Mar, 20, 2023
- Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Repair And Retrofit Of Structures Other Structural Other Geotechnical General Civil Transportation Engineering Transportation Geotechnics News On Projects / Industry Other News
- Mont Blanc
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is scheduled to be closed for about 3 months, from September 4 until December 18 ,2023, due to maintenance and renovation work. The same period of closure is also scheduled for...
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Parts of High Speed 2 (HS2) delayed by two years
- Mar, 09, 2023
- Construction Management General Civil General Construction Transportation Engineering News On Projects / Industry Other News
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The British government announced on Thursday afternoon that the construction of phases 2a and 2b of the High Speed 2 project will be delayed by two years due to inflation and rising construction cost...
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Passenger train derailed near Cairo, Egypt
- Mar, 07, 2023
- General Civil Transportation Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Egypt, Qalyub
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A derailment took place on Tuesday night, when a train heading from Cairo to Menouf, a city in the Nile delta, crashed on a concrete buffer stop. More specifically, the accident took place in the...
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Damaged water main in Nottingham, UK has water flying over houses
- Mar, 07, 2023
- Underground Structures Other Geotechnical General Civil Transportation Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- United Kingdom, Nottingham
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A large water pipe was damaged in the area of Beeston in Nottingham, UK on Tuesday afternoon. Severn Trent, the water provider responsible for the water main, stated that damage to the pipe was ca...
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Scooter battery caused 5-alarm fire in the Bronx
- Mar, 04, 2023
- Transportation Engineering Other Structural News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- United States, New York
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
An electric scooter’s lithium-ion battery explosion resulted in a 5-alarm fire in the Bronx, NYC on Sunday. The scooter was parked inside the rear part of a single-level grocery store when its bat...
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Freight train derailed in Ohio
- Mar, 04, 2023
- Transportation Engineering Environmental Engineering Other News
- United States, Ohio, Springfield
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A 212-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday, February 4. The incident took place around 5 p.m. and involved 28 cars, which included four tankers carrying n...
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Head-on train crash in Greece
A high-speed, head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train took place in Greece late on Tuesday, which caused carriages to derail and catch on fire. The passenger train, Inter C...
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