High Speed Rail

Labour has threatened to drop its support for HS2 if the cost estimate rises one  more time. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Shadow transport secretary Marie Eagle imposed a red line of £50 billion for the total cost of HS2,...

The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has hit back at a report which claims that the government's pursuit of HS2 is misguided and could cost the taxpayer almost double its £42.6 billion budget. A report by the Institute of Economic Affairs...

Brazil's Transport Minister César Borges is convinced that the country's plans for high-speed rail will go ahead despite postponing bidding for the project by a year. The deadline for phase one of the competition, which will choose who operates and...

Boris Johnson's transport advisor Isabel Dedring, who spends almost two hours commuting on the Northern Line every day, has said that London needs a high-speed "rail bagel" encircling it in order to be able to cope with a population...

The UK government has announced the creation of the 'HS2 Growth Taskforce' which it hopes will make the most of the economic benefits created by high-speed rail. The team, which includes music producer and railway enthusiast Pete Waterman, has been...

Alstom and SNCF have signed a deal exercising an option from an order in 2007 for 40 Euroduplex high-speed trains. The new trains will add extra capacity to France's intercity network and eventually transport passengers on new routes from Paris...

Accident investigators are determining what caused a high-speed AVE train to crash in Spain, killing 80. The Madrid-Ferrol service derailed outside Santisago de Compostela at around 9pm on July 24. Eighty people have been reported to have died, with many more of...

Eurostar has seen a resurgence in business class passengers, with the high-speed service benefiting from 'greater economic stability' in the UK. The cross-channel train operator has announced 'strong' growth in the first half of this year, with passenger numbers and...

Plans to link Southern California and Las Vegas by high-speed rail have hit the buffers after the US Government announced that it had suspended the project's application for funding. XpressWest had asked for $5.5 billion to start work on a...

Spain's political leaders have signed a new agreement, increasing the role of private investment in constructing a new intermodal railway station in Barcelona. Work can now continue on Sagrera station in the north of the city, albeit at a budget...