Vietnam's government is to prioritise the construction of two high-speed lines in north Vietnam before 2030, including a cross-border line to China.
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What use of the 2% hotel tax would benefit Chicago more? New stadium or massive improvement to Chicago Union Station? chicagobusiness.com/politics/chica…

It’s forty years since the birth of Gatwick Express this year.

BR got playful with its iconic double arrow to mark the event back in 1984, in a way that remains, itself, iconic.

Two huge HS2 tunnelling machines are digging towards Birmingham 🤩. TBM 'Mary Ann and TBM 'Elizabeth' are tasked with digging the Bromford Tunnel, a 3.5 mile twin-bore high-speed rail tunnel.

California High-Speed Rail one step closer to acquiring nation’s first 220 mph trains
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This country desperately needs high speed rail.

New Video Alert! 🎥🤩

We have made significant progress at our Copthall Tunnel site. Located within the London Borough of Hillingdon, between Harvil Road and Breakspear Road South. The 880m long tunnel sits between the twin bored Northolt Tunnel and the Colne Valley Viaduct.

Check it out! There goes train set 12 departing Hornell to be delivered to Amtrak. Another step towards having America-built high-speed trains ready for passengers in the northeast.
#MadeinAmerica #Hornell #HSR

Caltrain's 51-mile San Francisco-San Jose route now fully available for test operations
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Nothing solid yet, but a good step reuters.com/business/autos…

Corippo, Switzerland, with a population of 15, has bus services more frequent than those in major American cities, yet I'm expected to write a master's thesis on why major cities in the world's biggest economy should have trains.

There are 80 flights daily between Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville and Nashville. High-speed rail could easily connect these cities within 3 hours of each other.

Chicago <-> Nashville: 40
Chicago <-> Indy: 20
Chicago <-> Louisville: 20

TAKE A LOOK: Preliminary design plans for Mobile Amtrak station revealed | MyNBC5 - mynbc15.com/news/local/tak… #Alabama #AL #GulfCoast #Mississippi #MS #NewOrleans #NOLA #Louisiana #LA #trains #rail

Former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings asks city leaders and residents to get on board with high-speed rail
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High-Speed Rail isn't worth building.

🎉 APRIL FOOLS!

Not everyone loves my new bill to bring it to the U.S., so my staff picked a few mean (and funny) replies for me to react to.

📺 Mean Tweets, #HighSpeedRail edition ⬇️

The majority of long-distance travel in Japan, covering 250 to 500 miles, is by bullet trains. We have a lot of high-speed rail to build in this country.

Spanish dual gauging project makes progress | this is a step towards running high speed trains from Paris to Madrid over the western route railwaygazette.com/infrastructure…

We just need to buy a 100 of these and start these at every major city in the country:

Australia’s High Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) is seeking world-leading experts to help develop and plan a Sydney - Newcastle high-speed line. railjournal.com/passenger/high…

Why Amtrak should not extend trains into Long Island pedestrianobservations.com