The Lithuanian government has begun land acquisitions in the area between the city of Kaunas and the Polish border. Transferring ownership of plots of land and objects to the government should speed up preparations for...Read more
The new ICE 3neo high-speed rolling stock, which Deutsche Bahn (DB) entered into service in Germany last December, will begin testing in the Netherlands, Dutch Railways (NS) announced late last week. The trains are slated...Read more
The first ICE-L train was on its way to Germany this week, ‘smuggled’ in between a freight train. The Talgo-built rolling stock will undergo performance testing in the coming months in multiple countries and is...Read more
The Turkish ministry of Transport and Infrastructure held the kick-off ceremony for work on a key piece of high-speed infrastructure on Tuesday. A new tunnel on the outskirts of Istanbul should help facilitate faster train...Read more
Deutsche Bahn forecasts that an additional 21,000 kilometres of high-speed rail can be built between now and 2050. That is the key finding of a new study presented over the weekend. It would mean tripling...Read more
Will Britain’s high speed railway come to Manchester? There is still a massive cloud over the prospect of HS2 ever reaching the North West of England, but the company set up to deliver the huge...Read more
Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) has presented the architectural concept for the new airport and integrated railway hub in Poland. The railway station will serve the airport, but will also act as a national transport hub,...Read more
For business travellers eager to demonstrate their environmental credentials, there’s a shift to trains over planes. Now, with additional competition on Europe’s prestige routes, leisure travellers are looking at greener travel decisions that may be...Read more
Much like the Channel Tunnel, or the Seikan Tunnel in Japan, the “Europe-Africa Gibraltar Strait fixed link” project would amount to the construction of an underwater tunnel housing a high-speed rail link. This time between...Read more
A consortium comprising state-owned Korea National Railway (KNR) and engineering and construction firm Dohwa Engineering has won the contract for the design of the new Katowice – Ostrava railway between Poland and Czech Republic. The...Read more
Speculation about the HS2 project potentially tunnelling under Manchester has ignited a heated debate among authorities and residents alike. If Britain’s high speed railway reaches as far north as Manchester, there’s a proposal that it...Read more
The under-construction Koralm tunnel in Austria welcomed its first passenger train earlier this week as part of a ceremony to mark the completion of track-laying activities through the 33-kilometre-long tunnel. Regular high-speed service will not...Read more
Talgo will deliver the first units of a new batch of 30 Avril high-speed trains in November as per a new deadline agreed upon this week with Renfe. The manufacturer settled on the new date...Read more
Hitachi Rail will manufacture 12 high-speed trains for the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, the Japanese company recently announced. The contract carries a value of 124 billion yen, or around 830 million euros. First deliveries...Read more
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has ordered a total of 73 new long-distance (ICE) trains. The move represents an investment of some 2 billion euros and marks the second-largest single purchase of trains in the company’s history....Read more