High Speed Rail

The Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) has awarded a 20 billion yen (£133 million) contract that will see the delivery of the Nangang Extension Project. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and the Toshiba Corporation will install new track and provide...

Arup has put HS2 at the centre of a master plan designed to create a new economic hub in the West Midlands. UK Central (UKC) is a proposed major development to the south east of Birmingham, encompassing Solihull, Birmingham Airport,...

Sochi, on Russia’s Black Sea coast will be hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. David Shirres went to the International Rail Business Forum in the city and reports from an Olympian event. David Shirres reports Russian Railway’s operations are certainly large scale, and so are their conferences. With 1400 delegates from 32 countries, this year’s Eighth [...]

Alstom has presented the first EIC Premium train to Polish operators PKP at a special ceremony in Italy. PKP Intercity ordered 20 new Pendolino trains in 2009 to operate between Tricity and Katowice, via Warsaw and Krakow. The new trains, which...

The Prince of Asturias has inaugurated the new high-speed line connecting Albacete, Villena and Alicante. Nine services a day will operate in each direction, eventually reducing the journey time between Madrid and Alicante to two hours and five minutes. The 165...

New safety guidelines are to be drawn up by the US Department of Transportation which will shape the design of the country's first high-speed trains. The Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) voted in favour of introducing...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) has been given approval to run trains through the Channel Tunnel, opening up the opportunity of direct high-speed services between the UK and Germany. The Intergovernmental Commission has granted DB an operating certificate following a three-year study. Eurotunnel...

Japan's bullet trains have been transporting passengers around the country for half a century, but how have the trains developed over the decades.

Spanish train operator Renfe has seen passenger numbers increase by 14 per cent after introducing new discounted services. Between February 8 and June 2, Renfe cut the price of AVE trains by 11 per cent in an attempt to reverse...

A loan for 200 million euro has been issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support the construction of a high-speed line between Turkey's two largest cities. The EIB has now pledged 1.5 billion euros to the project, which...