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April 15, 2020 | High-speed

HS2 contractors set to proceed with phase one detailed design and construction

BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) has issued a formal notice to proceed with detailed design and construction of the first 225km phase of HS2, the high-speed link between London, Birmingham and Lichfield, to the joint venture contractors working on the project.

April 9, 2020 | Financial

AllRail calls for action to prevent private operators from going out of business

THE Alliance of Passenger Rail New Entrants (AllRail) says that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented crisis for independent passenger rail operators and predicts that some could disappear as early as this month.

April 8, 2020 | High-speed

Spanish competition authority curbs Renfe’s high-speed ambitions

SPAIN’s National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has curtailed Adif High Speed’s (Adif AV) plan to award Renfe a 10-year operating contract as part of opening a section of the high-speed rail market to competition.

April 8, 2020 | High-speed

Test running starts on China’s Hefei - Huzhou HS line

CHINA National Railway started test running and debugging on the 311km high-speed line linking Hefei and Huzhou on April 7.

April 6, 2020 | High-speed

Hitachi unveils latest version of JR Central maglev test train

HITACHI has unveiled a more streamlined version of the series LO maglev test train which it is building for JR Central.

April 6, 2020 | High-speed

Final design contracts for Latvian Rail Baltica line awarded

RB Rail, the body implementing the Rail Baltica project, has awarded two contracts on behalf of the Latvian Ministry of Transport for design and design supervision of the two remaining sections of the Latvian main line.

April 3, 2020 | Infrastructure

Indonesian high-speed project progresses despite challenges

ACCORDING to a report by China National Railway (CR) on April 2, the construction of the 142.3km 350km/h line linking Jakarta with Bandung in Indonesia is making progress despite floods and interruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

March 31, 2020 | Infrastructure

Texas Central says coronavirus could impact high-speed project delivery

TEXAS Central, the company developing a 390km, 320km/h high-speed line from Dallas to Houston, says it is likely that the coronavirus pandemic will impact delivery of the project because of the number of international partners involved.

March 27, 2020 | Policy

Spain scales back in wake of coronavirus pandemic

THE Spanish rail industry is scaling back train services and manufacturing in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

March 26, 2020 | Main line

SNCF to further reduce services; operates first hospital train

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) has announced a further reduction in timetables for TGV InOui and Intercity services and that it will cease operation of all Ouigo trains from March 27 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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