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Latest news from the high speed passenger rail industry.
EUROPE: Infrastructure managers SNCF Réseau and ADIF are to take over the operation of the high speed line between Perpignan in France and Figueres in Spain, after creditors were unable to agree terms for restructuring the €557m ... more
CHINA: MTR Corp announced on September 23 that it was shortly expecting to take delivery by sea of the first of nine high speed trainsets being supplied by CRRC Qingdao Sifang to operate from Kowloon to Shenzhen and Guangzhou on ... more
INNOTRANS: Stadler CEO Peter Spuhler and Swiss Federal Railways CEO Andreas Meyer officially presented the EC250 Giruno low-floor electric multiple-unit on September 21 at InnoTrans 2016. A five-car formation is on display at the ... more
GERMANY: Siemens announced on September 16 that the 12-car ICE4 high speed trainset that it is supplying to Deutsche Bahn had been approved for operation by federal railway authority EBA. With immediate effect, ‘the train’s ... more
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn's latest generation of inter-city trainset was officially unveiled to the public by CEO Rüdiger Grube and Minister for Transportation & Digital Infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt at Berlin Hauptbahnhof ... more
FRANCE: On September 14 SNCF President Guillaume Pepy unveiled the ‘haute couture’ interiors of the TGV Océane, a build of 40 double-deck high speed trainsets ordered from Alstom at a cost of €1∙2bn to operate between Paris and ... more