High Speed Rail

The new chairman of HS2, Sir David Higgins, has been told he will need to report to the government in March with ideas on how to cut the cost of the £42.6 billion project. Outgoing Network Rail boss Higgins will...

The UK government has begun a new study which will look to increase the benefits of HS2 in Scotland and the north of England. The announcement follows yesterday's (October 31) vote in the House of Commons, approving funding for initial...

The first new Eurostar trains, being manufactured by Siemens in Germany, are already largely complete and testing is well underway. It was in October 2010 that Eurostar announced that it had selected Siemens to build 10 new trains which would be designated Eurostar e320. The announcement was a bit of a surprise to those who [...]

India has established a new body to lead the development of high-speed rail across the country. The High Speed Rail Corporation (HSRC), which was launched today at a railways event in New Delhi, will oversee the delivery of planned high-speed...

HS2 is still the best option for meeting the UK's rail capacity needs, that is the message coming out of the Department for Transport. Publishing its new strategic business case for Britain's planned high-speed line, the DfT suggested that any...

Almost €200 million worth of rail improvements have been approved by the Spanish government for the realisation of the Mediterranean Corridor. Funding for a series of contracts totalling more than €198 million has bee confirmed that will help develop the TEN-T...

French Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier has outlined the proposed route and construction schedule of a new high-speed TGV line between Bordeaux and Toulouse. Dubbed the 'Grand Railway Project', the line would extend the Tours - Bordeaux line, which is set...

Companies are being invited to submit their interest in a $2 billion design and build contract for the second stage of California's planned high-speed railway. The 60-mile route will from Fresno south to the Tulare-Kern County line near Bakersfield. Interested parties...

India and Japan have agreed to carry out a joint feasibility study into building a new high-speed railway between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Katsuo Matsumoto, Director South Asia Division Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Girish Pillai, infrastructure adviser for India's...

The reason for building HS2 can sometimes be obscured in the fog of argument about whether people work on trains, benefit-cost ratios (BCR) and the like. Writes Tim Smart, Head of Engineering and Operations, HS2 Ltd There have been a number of negative comments in the media during the latter part of the summer concerning [...]