Work on the new high speed rail line across the Baltic States is underway. It will bring critical socio-economic and north-south connectivity benefits.
Rail Baltica is the 870km high speed railway that will connect the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Full scale construction begins later this year. Its…
High speed rail projects are rolling out at pace worldwide, bringing unique challenges that expand the frontiers of engineering.
People never used to think of railways as equivalent in complexity to something like a nuclear power station,” says Aecom global transit director Russell Jackson. “But given the scale, the number of…
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has unlocked a €781M (£680M) loan to fund the Mersin-Adana-Gaziantep High Speed Railway in southern Türkiye.
Able to carry trains travelling up to 200 km/h, the high-speed railway will reduce the travel time from the dry port of Gaziantep – via…
The European Commission has awarded £55M (€64M) for the development of full design documentation for the planned first section of Poland’s multi-billion Euro high speed rail project.
Centralny Port Komunikacjyny (CPK) will see transfer hub built between Warsaw and Łódź, which will comprise of a new airport and several high-speed railway…
The Spanish government has pledged £2M (€2.3M) towards a design study for revived plans to connect Europe to Morocco’s high speed rail network with a tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Proposals for the “Europe-Africa Gibraltar Strait fixed link” were mothballed in 2009 but revived in April of this year when…
Construction has begun of a tunnel designed to accommodate the Milan-Rome railway through the northern part of Florence in Italy, serving a new dedicated high-speed station at Belfiore, 20km west of Florence.
Work began on 15 May with the launch of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) near Campo di Marte…
Digital tools credited with fast tracking delivery of Indonesia’s first high speed rail line.
Travel times between the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Bandung were expected to be slashed from three to five hours to just 36 minutes as a new high speed rail link started test operations in November. Indonesian…
This video is from NCE’s Future of Rail conference 2022. Ferrovial Construction project director Ignacio Lopez Araiz reflects on lessons learned from international high-speed rail projects. With over 30 years of experience actively collaborating in the development of the Spanish high-speed rail network, this session shares insight from Ferrovial's international rail experience,…
Leading figures from politics, business and environmentalism have come together with the High Speed Rail Group (HSRG) to put a spotlight on the role of high speed rail in delivering net zero carbon transport in the UK.
According to HRSG, the High Speed Rail: Net Zero Voices report makes clear that,…
The UK and Turkey have agreed a clean transport deal worth £1.7bn, which will help finance a new high speed electric railway line in Turkey.
It is the UK government’s biggest ever sustainable civil infrastructure deal, with UK Export Finance (UKEF) guaranteeing a loan to fund construction of a 503km high…
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