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Fast race for HS1
High Speed Rail is popular with the public. That’s the happy new year message from HS1. Over 25 million domestic passenger journeys have been made on Southeastern’s High Speed One services between London and Kent since the launch of the service. December saw the three year anniversary of the introduction of Britain’s first domestic high [...]
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Amtrak to partner California in high-speed train procurement plan
Amtrak and the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) have announced they will work together to purchase new trains for the east and west coast high-speed rail programmes.
By forming a partnership, Amtrak and CHSRA are hoping to advance both high-speed...
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Sleeper contract awarded for Honam high-speed line
Rail.One has been awarded a contract to deliver more than half a million sleepers for a new high-speed line in South Korea.
The bi-block concrete sleepers will be installed on the 230 km Honam high-speed line, which branches off near...
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How Britain is helping build Brazil’s modern railway
Brazil desperately needs new rail infrastructure and 160 years after building its first railway, the country is again turning to British engineers for help.
Britain's relationship with Brazil's railway began even before the very first line opened in Mauá in...
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EU gives €5m to Nuremberg-Fürth upgrade
Plans to improve a 4 km stretch of railway in southern Germany have been awarded five million euros by the EU.
The project, which will upgrade an existing two-track railway line north of Nuremburg to a four-track electrified line, will...
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U.S. high-speed rail ‘well on its way and not turning back’
'High-speed rail is well on its way, and it is not turning back', according to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.
Addressing delegates at the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, LaHood said high-speed rail projects were gaining...
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U.S. high-speed rail 'well on its way and not turning back'
'High-speed rail is well on its way, and it is not turning back', according to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.
Addressing delegates at the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, LaHood said high-speed rail projects were gaining...
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European Commission finances Italian high-speed rail projects
Two major rail infrastructure projects in northern Italy are to receive 10 million euros from the European Union to drive forward completion of a trans-European line between Lyon and the Ukrainian border.
The investment will partly fund construction of two...
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Spain at high speed
“This is one of the sections we designed.” There’s a brief pause in conversation as Fernando Mesa, project director of transport infrastructure at AECOM, points to lineside features rapidly passing by on the high speed line from Madrid to Barcelona. “This is our viaduct. Just here. See? ” It’s gone in a flash. “Oh well, [...]
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Ansaldo handed €82m Italian high-speed signalling contract
Ansaldo STS has been awarded an 82 million euro signalling contract for a high-speed link between Treviglio and Brescia in Italy.
The Finmeccanica Company will deliver the work for the Italian Railway Network (RFI) as a member of consortium Consorzio...
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GWR and Network Rail Director Ruth Busby receives OBE
Inspirational Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail director Ruth Busby was at Buckingham Palace on Friday to receive...