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
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 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 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 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
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
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 (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 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
Renfe spent 630 million euros on traction energy in 2022, an increase of 78.6 per cent over the 277.4 million spent in 2021. This resulted in a loss before taxes of 108.6 million euros, the...Read more
HS2, Britain’s new high speed rail link, faces a massive blow to the prestige of the project. Reports in the UK claim that the line will no longer reach Euston in central London and will...Read more
Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, is taking shape in Birmingham. The first bridge pier on the 300 metres long Curzon Viaduct has been topped out and revealed to the city. The project managers have hailed...Read more
Current high-speed rail (HSR) lines in Europe are like islands, scattered across the continent. But what would a fully interconnected European high-speed network look like? What would it cost, and what benefits would it bring?...Read more
For the development of high-speed rail in the ‘Three Seas Region’ between the Baltic Sea in the North, the Black Sea in central Europe and the Adriatic Sea, Poland’s Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), Rail Baltica...Read more
Adif has recently carried out reliability tests on a new 45-kilometre section between Xàtiva and La Encina junction in the province of Valencia. The railway will be part of the planned fast connection between Alicante...Read more