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Todmorden Curve railway line opens for the first time in 40 years
Todmorden Curve, a stretch of railway in the north west of England, has reopened further to a £10 million investment.
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HS2 will offer high-speed, frequency and capacity between major cities
High Speed Two (HS2) is a completely new rail network that will connect up eight out of 10 of Britain’s biggest cities and provide the backbone for inter-city travel across the island over the next 200 years. Regular European Railway Review readers may have seen a previous article1 from Professor…
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Maintaining high-speed tracks on the Spanish network
The first Spanish high-speed rail line from Madrid to Seville opened in 1992. Now, the Spanish high-speed rail network (operated by ADIF) includes 2,300km of double-track lines, 277km of bored tunnels and 326 hyperstatic and isostatic structures each spanning over 20m in length. Maintaining the track superstructure requires a lot…
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High-speed rail is the future of train travel in Russia
19 September 2014 | By
Russia is the world’s largest country and it has one of the largest rail networks at 85,300km. The Trans-Siberian Railway alone – connecting Moscow with the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok – is over 9,200km-long. Obviously, a well-developed transportation system is needed. Alexander Misharin – First Vice-President of Russian Railways…
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High-Speed Two: What will the passengers want?
Britain’s new north-south railway – better known as High Speed 2 – has now entered a hugely significant phase in its development, with building of the first phase of the network between London and Birmingham now moving ever closer to becoming a reality. But what will the people who will…
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High-speed rail’s potential to support transport demand in Europe
The next decades will be crucial for Europe, with, on the one hand, a desperate need for greater economic growth, and on the other, scarce public financial resources, a growing uncertainty regarding energy supplies, and pressing environmental challenges. High-speed rail has the potential to help address most of these challenges,…
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The importance of rolling stock for SJ’s future competitiveness
SJ review’s their strategies and strategic objectives about once every three years. In this respect, the Group’s plan also encompasses the traffic and rolling stock programme, which extends over a period of five years. Examples of the issues addressed include business intelligence and, not least, future competition in the market,…
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Germany: NETINERA to start four new routes in 2014
11 April 2014 | By Jost Knebel, CEO, NETINERA Deutschland GmbH
NETINERA is one of the largest private regional rail operators in Germany. Before 2011 it belonged to the British Arriva plc company until it was acquired by a financial consortium of the Italian national railway company, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) and the French-Luxembourgian infrastructure company, Cube Infrastructure. In 2014,…
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£100m investment signals new start for Nottingham
29 November 2012 | By Martin Frobisher, Route Managing Director, Network Rail
It is not often in the life of a Route Managing Director that you get to install a whole new track layout through a major station, but between September 2012 and December 2013, Nottingham’s railway station will be rebuilt complete with a new £100 million track layout and resignalling scheme.…
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Gotthard railway systems now being installed and the Ceneri is on course
1 August 2012 | By Renzo Simoni, CEO, AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd
Since the second final breakthrough on 23 March 2011, fitting-out of the Gotthard Base Tunnel has made rapid progress, and since September 2011, installation of the railway systems has been taking place from the north. Elsewhere in the Ceneri Base Tunnel, work has begun on the main drives from the…
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ÖBB’s approach to sustainable maintenance of infrastructure
1 August 2012 | By Andreas Matthä, Speaker of the Board, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG
Increasing route utilisation, higher transport tonnages, shorter train intervals and greater speeds are, from the customers’ viewpoint, the most important characteristics of Austria’s railway network, which highlights the need for further maintenance of the lines. Since 2008, ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG has placed particular emphasis on the sustainable maintenance of its infrastructure…
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Building on success: the liberalised and competitive Italian railway market
1 August 2012 | By Vincenzo Soprano, Chief Executive Officer, Trenitalia SpA
The European railway industry has radically changed over recent years following the introduction of high speed networks which have revolutionised society. Italy was the first country in Europe to launch the railway market liberalisation process by opening up to competitors. In just a few years, the economy of the sector…
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Italo – now a reality
1 August 2012 | By Giuseppe Sciarrone, Managing Director, Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A. (NTV)
On 28 April 2012, the first passenger-filled Italo train left Naples station heading to Rome, Florence, Bologna and Milan. It was a highly emotional moment for everybody at NTV: the personnel, the partners and, of course, for me. After approximately four years of startup plans, the project finally became a…
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Norwegian railways enter a year of intensive planning
8 June 2012 | By Elisabeth Enger, Director General, Jernbaneverket
Since the beginning of 2012, three important reports on Norwegian railways have been issued in quick succession. First was the major high-speed study, followed by Jernbaneverket’s concept study for expansion of the InterCity network in eastern Norway. Subsequently, the central government agencies for sea, air, road and rail transport tabled…
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Opening up construction of Denmark’s first high-speed railway to competition
8 June 2012 | By Jan Schneider-Tilli, Project Director, Copenhagen-Ringsted railway, Banedanmark
The new Copenhagen-Ringsted railway is the largest civil engineering project in Denmark for well over 100 years. Not since the Vestvolden fortifications around Copenhagen were built between 1882 and 1892 as part of the city’s defences has Denmark been the setting for such an extensive building project: a new 60km…
