China opened a railway line around its largest desert, the Taklimakan, in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday. The railway line is 2,712 kilometres long and allows for speeds of up to...Read more
Swiss railway company SBB has inked a deal with Stadler for the purchase of seven additional Giruno trains. The units will be used for SBB’s international services to Germany, as its current Eurocity compositions from...Read more
It slipped out with little fanfare on a day that might be designated as ‘a good one for bad news’. The government quietly cancelled the Golborne Link – a short section of the HS2 project...Read more
Tunnelling crews achieved the first breakthrough of the twin-tube Semmering base tunnel construction project in Austria on Friday. The hole-through moment came some seven years after the start of construction.Read more
Deutsche Bahn’s (DB) summer timetable went into effect on Sunday with more than 3 million seats available on the long-distance ICE trains on a weekly basis. This is a 20-percent increase over 2019 and a...Read more
HS2 Limited, the company delivering Britain’s high speed railway between London and Birmingham, has begun work on the first of a series of ‘green tunnels’, designed to carry the railway though environmentally sensitive regions. The...Read more
It will not be until 2036 that capacity will increase on the Dutch high-speed railway HSL to accommodate additional international trains, state secretary for infrastructure and water management Vivianne Heijen told parliament this week.Read more
Construction efforts at Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands might put a stop to Eurostar departures to London, state secretary for infrastructure and water management Vivianne Heijen said in a letter to parliament on Wednesday.Read more
The Turkish ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and local authorities held a so-called first rail welding ceremony earlier on Wednesday for a new high-speed line and freight connection across the European part of the country.Read more
Egypt has finalised the contract with Siemens Mobility for the construction of a three high-speed lines with a length of 2000 kilometres. Including the delivery of high-speed rolling stock and freight locomotives, the total value...Read more
AnalysisThe Italian FS Group recently presented its industrial plan for the coming decade. Record numbers show the commitment and the long-term vision adopted. Will this be the long awaited infrastructural shock, or just a utopian...Read more
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has submitted two applications for federal grant funding totaling nearly 1.3 billion dollars. The applications are the first major push for a continued federal partnership under the newly enacted Bipartisan...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and its French counterpart SNCF are making 15,000 tickets available at a reduced price as of Wednesday to mark the occasion of 15 years of high-speed cross-border connections. DB and SNCF also...Read more
Renfe and the United Arab Emirates’ Etihad Rail concluded last week’s 16th Annual Middle East Rail event with several Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) on knowledge transfers. Etihad Rail inked a similar deal with the UK’s...Read more
A Ouigo train travelling from Madrid to Barcelona ripped off several hundred of metres of overhead line from the high-speed railway line on Saturday, causing major delays for thousands of passengers.Read more
