High Speed Rail

HS2 has set out revised proposals to construct a tunnel beneath Ealing and Northolt to avoid lengthy bridge demolition works. Plans announced in January set out a surface route along the Northolt corridor through north west London. A study has now...

Eurostar experienced its strongest-ever booking period in January to post 'encouraging' first quarter figures. A ticket promotion at the start of the year, which offered 150,000 seats between London and Paris, Brussels or Lille for £59, saw the cross-border high-speed...

HS2 has said it will not have to demolish and rebuild Euston station for Britain’s proposed high-speed rail network. In January 2012, the government published plans for the first phase of High Speed Two (HS2) between London and the West...

Spanish infrastructure manager Adif has completed the main construction work on the Arnoia viaduct along the Madrid-Galicia high-speed rail line. The viaduct, which lies in the Zamora-Ourense section of the route, stretches for just over a kilometre over the Arnoia...

A  joint venture (JV) comprising Tutor Perini, Zachry and Parsons is leading the competition to design and build the first section of California's high-speed rail system. The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced that the JV had scored highest with its...

Australia's first high-speed train network will cost $114 billion, according to a government-led study. Phase 2 of the report into Australia's proposed HSR system has set out a preferred route for the network along Australia's East Coast between Melbourne, Canberra,...

Bombardier has signed a variation order worth 336 million euros for the production of parts for Deutsche Bahn's (DB) new fleet of high-speed trains. Under the agreement, Bombardier will supply Siemens with the body shells and trailer bogies for each...

A European consortium is to deliver signalling, traffic control and telecommunications systems for a new high-speed railway line in Morocco between Tangier and Kenitra. Operator ONCF has awarded the 120 million euro contract to Ansaldo STS and Cofely Ineo. The new...

The first high-speed Frecciarossa 1000 train has left AnsaldoBreda's Pistoia factory to begin testing. A launch ceremony has held at the rolling stock manufacturer's site in Italy's Tuscany region on March 26. Chief executive of AnsaldoBreda Maurizio Manfellotto said the unveiling...

The cross-border TGV service between Frankfurt and Marseille is celebrating its first birthday. Around 150,000 passengers have used the joint DB/SNCF high-speed service since it was launched on March 23, 2012. "This exceeded our expectations by far," said Ulrich Homburg, chief...