Topic: High-speed rail

Rail roundup: Alstom’s German overhaul, Proxima’s €850m order, Austria tops EU rail use

It’s your daily update on Europe’s tracks from RailTech. Alstom has been turning heads today with the news that they will indeed shutter their Görlitz plant in a…
Rail roundup: Warsaw megaproject resumes, Eurostar goes intermodal, half-price DB deal

It’s your daily dose of rail reconnaissance from RailTech. Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of the world’s first bullet train. On 1 October 1964, Japan’s high-speed Shinkansen had…
DB, SNCF launch first ever direct Paris-Berlin line for €60

For the first time ever, Deutsche Bahn’s (DB) Intercity-Express (ICE) trains will travel directly from Berlin to Paris. Starting from 16 December, trains operated by DB in cooperation…
Spain: Adif invests €24bn in 4 years, gets a brand new boss

Spain’s Adif and its high-speed subsidiary, Adif AV, have announced they are investing 24.1 billion euros over the 2022–2026 period. That’s nearly three times bigger than the entire…
Details of Bucharest-Budapest HSR line revealed – including huge price tag

This summer, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Romanian counterpart Marcel Ciolacu finally agreed to creating a high-speed railway line from Bucharest to Budapest. Travel times between…
Germany to start work on €400m Dortmund ICE depot this year

Germany is set to commence construction on a new 400-million-euro depot for high-speed trains in Dortmund. After receiving the green light from Berlin, the works are now expected…
Vossloh’s rail replacement tech sees key ICE line fixed in record time

Earlier this month, Deutsche Bahn replaced approximately 70 kilometres of rail along one of its key transport routes, the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed line, in the space of just four…
CPK enters new phase as Poland approves new high speed line

The Polish government has chosen the route for its new high-speed lines between the Central Communication Port (CPK) and the cities of Płock and Włocławek. Marking a new…
SNCF’s low-cost rival Kevin Speed could secure €400m EU loan

French open-access operator Kevin Speed, one of the first companies to challenge SNCF’s high-speed rail dominance in France, could soon secure significant EU financing. The European Investment Bank…
Construction of UK’s longest rail bridge enters last stretch

The UK’s longest railway bridge, part of the HS2 line out of London, is nearly finished. Despite major setbacks – including the last British government abandoning the wider…
Belgium suspends key rail link to Europe

Belgium has closed a key high-speed rail line between Brussels and the French border for two and a half weeks due to major renovation works that in total…
A united Irish rail: Dublin, Belfast lay out €35bn three-decade strategy

Ireland and Northern Ireland’s transport ministries have set out a new strategic vision for developing the rail system across the entire island in the coming decades. The All-Island…
Paris Olympics rail sabotage: French police call in FBI

French police investigating the sabotage of high-speed rail lines ahead of last month’s Paris Olympics’ Opening Ceremony have called in the U.S. FBI for assistance, according to Reuters.
Poland opens bid for nation’s largest high-speed rail tunnel

Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), the company overseeing the construction of Poland’s megaproject to build a new Warsaw airport and a nationwide high-speed rail network, has announced a tender…
Was it liberalisation? Spain’s high-speed rail use jumped 37% in 2023

Spain’s high-speed rail use increased by 37 per cent in 2023, according to the latest Annual Railway Sector Report. Several of the key lines broke passenger records, the…