IRJ at InnoTrans 2012: RUSSIA will not deliver a new high-speed line between Moscow and St Petersburg in time for the 2018 fifa World Cup, according to Russian Railways (RZD) president Mr Vladimir Yakunin.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2012: BOMBARDIER announced today that it has signed contracts worth a total of €281m to supply and maintain traction systems and bogies for the fleet of 36 Series350 trains being built by Talgo for the Mecca – Jeddah – Medina high-speed line.
THE Belgian national railway safety authority (DVIS) granted the long-awaited authority to place in service for the AnsaldoBreda-built V250 Fyra high-speed emus operated by NS Hispeed on September 14.
DENMARK's Transport Minister Mr Henrik Dam Kristensen officially launched construction of the Copenhagen – Køge – Ringsted high-speed line on September 6 in a groundbreaking ceremony at Karlslunde.
INDIA's Railways Ministry says it expects to begin work soon on a detailed project report for the country's first high-speed line with the aim of inviting global tenders for the Rs 650bn ($US 11.8bn) Pune – Mumbai – Ahmedabad project by November 2013.
GERMAN Rail (DB) has awarded a consortium of Siemens and Kapsch CarrierCom a €93m contract to equip 230km of the under construction high-speed line from Halle and Leipzig to Ebensfed via Erfurt with ERTMS Level 2.
Amtrak's revised vision for the Northeast Corridor calls for bold investments of $US 110bn to improve existing infrastructure and to construct a new dedicated high-speed line over the next 30 years. Kevin Smith examines the plans for North America's most important passenger railway.
Korea's latest experimental high-speed train, Hemu430X, was unveiled in Changwon on May 16, and is now being tested with a view to achieving a new Korean speed record of 430km/h later this year, explains Dr G H Kang with Hyundai Rotem's R&D centre.
RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) has strongly denied claims in the Russian press that its high-speed railway construction programme has been cancelled.
A ceremony was held on August 18 to mark the start of construction of last remaining 21km segment of the 143km Nagasaki – Hakata Shinkansen between Isahaya and Nagasaki.
