Serbian Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed railway marks 1 year of operations
The Serbian Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed railway marked its first anniversary on Sunday. The Chinese-built line has transported nearly 3 million people between Serbia’s two largest cities since operations started last year.Read more
RFI kicks off tunnel excavation for Napels-Bari high-speed line in Italy
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) formally set in motion the tunnel excavation works for a section of the Napels-Bari high-speed line in Southern Italy on Wednesday. Present at the launch were minister of Infrastructure and Transport...Read more
SNCF and Nevomo to cooperate on MagRail
Pioneer of maglev-inspired technology for existing railways Nevomo has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MoU) with the French state railways SNCF. The companies will evaluate the benefits of MagRail within the French railway network to...Read more
How a new high-speed line in Basque Country will connect the north of Spain
BackgroundSpain is building a high-speed line in the Basque Country, a Y-shaped railway line which will connect several cities in the Northern region. Work is progressing with some of the engineering structures already completed and...Read more
Anger and little sympathy for UK’s high-speed rail delay
Controversy has followed the UK government decision last week to slow down the construction of HS2. Ironically, the high-speed railway project will be a slow-speed build, long into the next decade. The government in London...Read more
French ART report confirms post-pandemic rail progress
Over 400 kilometres of rail tracks were taken out of service between 2019 and 2021, according to the annual review by the French Transport Regulation Authority (ART) published this week. However, the intensity of rail...Read more
Renfe counting down to new high-speed connections
Renfe will launch a new low-cost Avlo high-speed service later this month between Madrid and the coastal city of Alicante. From March 27 onwards, travel time between the two urban centres will be reduced to...Read more
HS2 acts on feedback over Manchester route design
HS2 Limited, the company formed to build Britain’s high speed railway line, is engaging local communities in Manchester to discuss proposed changes to its construction designs. They say the purpose is to reduce future flood...Read more
Renfe marks 15 years of high-speed rail between Madrid and Barcelona
Renfe on Monday celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) service between Madrid and Barcelona. The high-speed connection between the capital and the coastal metropolis reduced travel time to just over 2.5...Read more
Moving UK’s logistics market to high-speed rail
There was added impetus to this week’s conference of stakeholders in Britain’s high-speed rail industry. There was much talk of the recent revelations that the London to Birmingham HS2 high-speed railway project would be subject...Read more
HS2 given a sporting chance with a hat-trick of enquiries
It has already been reviewed twice. Now, Britain’s high speed rail scheme is to face a third ministerial enquiry. That was this weekend’s shock news for HS2, the giant engineering project to build a new...Read more
Deutsche Bahn and Lufthansa see major increase in air-rail demand
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Lufthansa have registered a 25-per cent increase in joint air-rail services to and from Frankfurt Airport over the past two years, the companies write on Monday. In April 2021, DB and...Read more
Adif advances Extremadura-Madrid high-speed line with tunneling
Adif AV has started construction of one of the largest tunnels on the second section of the new high-speed line from Madrid to the Extremadura region in western Spain. Read more