Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month inaugurated a new 102-kilometre section of the country’s high-speed railway network. The new section is an extension of the existing Ankara-Konya line that now reaches the city...Read more
AnalysisFacing delays in the approval process, the Pendolino high-speed trains for the Athens-Thessaloniki route in Greece are still not on the rails, nearly a year after the scheduled start. Read more
Contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won its third contract related to the construction of India’s first high-speed railway, several media outlets reported last week. The latest package will see the engineering and construction division...Read more
Planned UK high-speed railway line HS2 has revealed what its so-called green tunnels will look like, beginning with the one-and-a-half-mile long Greatworth tunnel. The double-arched structure is one of three tunnels to be built across...Read more
Spanish operator Renfe is adding more trains on the high-speed trajectory Madrid – Valencia. The operator plans four new services, two trains per direction, between the two cities, which represents a daily supply of 26...Read more
The European Year of Rail has been a partial succes, German transport association Allianz pro Schiene says in a first assessment published in the last week of 2021.Read more
The European Investment Bank (EIB) this week announced it will be supporting the purchase of high-speed trains by Trenitalia for use in Italy and Spain. The EIB will do so through subscriptions of Ferrovie dello...Read more
Deutsche Bahn earlier this month completed the renewal of the Berlin-Hamburg high-speed line. Rail infrastructure Vossloh on Wednesday detailed its involvement in the project.Read more
The first ride of the Frecciarossa high-speed train will depart from Milano Central station towards Paris on Saturday 18 December. It will compete with the French railways SNCF on the route between France and Italy.Read more
The latest Railtech Magazine is all about international and high-speed trains. Featuring exclusive interviews, the digital magazine is now freely available to download.Read more
The HS2 project organization has announced that the Hitachi/Alstom JV consortium has been awarded the contract for the construction of 54 new high-speed trains. The contracts are worth approximately two billion British pounds (2.6 billion...Read more
Alstom has agreed to transfer business activities of Bombardier Transportation’s contribution to the V300 Zefiro very high-speed train to Hitachi Rail. This transaction was one of the European Commission’s condition for Alstom to acquire Bombardier...Read more
Orion High Speed Logistics, the parcels and light loads division of Rail Operations Group, has launched their much anticipated high-speed service, bringing mass-market parcels traffic back to the British railway scene. A morning departure from...Read more
Siemens Mobility signed an agreement with the Russian Rail Engineering Centre to develop a new high-speed electric train for operation on the broad gauge high-speed lines in the Russian Federation. The Centre is a joint...Read more
