Russian rail to invest in Deutsche Bahn

The intention of Russian Railways (RZD) to inject capital into Deutsche Bahn (DB) following the partial DB privatisation is everything but secret. Vladimir Iakounine showed his interest as soon as the privatisation was announced. In an interview to Herald Tribune, he stated that RZD would like to own about 5% of the DB’s capital. From [...]

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In brief: Call for proposals for Nimes and Montpellier rail bypass

Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the French railway infrastructure owner and manager launched today a call for proposals for Nîmes and Montpellier high speed rail bypass. The contractor will be in charge of the project construction and operation, under a Partnership Contract (Contrat de Partenariat, a new form of Public-Private Partnership. For more details about Partnership [...]

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Rhône to Rhine HSR line will be delivered on time

Rhône to Rhine High-Speed Rail line will be delivered on time. This is what Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the owning and managing company of the French railway network, annouced early July. The line will be entering commercial service by December 2011. Five years of work to link Rhône and Rhine regions faster than ever [...]

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Western extension of the HSR network toward Brittany

A partnership contract to finance a €3.4 billion project French Transportation Minister Jean-Louis Borloo confirmed that a future High-Speed Rail link from Le Mans to Rennes (more precisely from Connerré in Sarthe to Cesson-Sévigné in Ille-et-Vilaine) would be build, and financed through a Partnership Contract (contrat de partenariat) agreement. The project includes two segments of [...]

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Special announcement from the Editor

Everybody knows summer is a “slow” period. Thus we have not been writing a lot in the last couple weeks on Transport Expertise, but we did quite a bit of thinking to improve the services we provide, and to choose what we will write about in the future. After six month of successful activity, we [...]

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Future HSR line to Brittany: local governments participate in the funding

There is a way to finance infrastructure when the National Government does not have enough money… simply rely on the Local and Regional Governments! A future high-speed rail line extension is planned from Paris toward the west side of France, also known as Brittany, Bretagne in French. As of today, on a regular map of [...]

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Cargo Rail Express: does it ring a bell?

Roissy Carex, a High-Speed Freight Rail project Since 1999, a group of companies settled on the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport platform have been thinking and working together to set up a high speed freight rail service. From this idea came a struture, involving several partners: Public entities: Roissy Development (Economic Development Agency of Roissy Porte [...]

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In brief: High Speed Rail will invade Poland by 2020

Polish Government recently announced that the country will have its first high-speed rail line by 2020. The announcement was made during a French-Polish conference about intercity and urban rail transport. Infrastructures Minister Cezary Grabarczyk declared that this first project would link the cities of Warsaw, Poznan, and Wroclaw (west of the country). A high-speed rail [...]

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Matthieu Desiderio joins High Speed Rail Canada

MATTHIEU DESIDERIO – Transport Expertise Founder Joins HSRC – Friday, May 30, 2008 High Speed Rail Canada is very proud to announce that MATTHIEU DESIDERIO from Paris France has joined High Speed Rail Canada as our International Representative. Mattthieu is the founder of the organization and website Transport Expertise. For more background on Mattthieu check [...]

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High Speed Rail: Internet connection on board Thalys trains

Thalys, the train service operated by both the French national railway company SNCF and the Belgium national railway company SNCB inaugurated May 14, 2008 its new on-board service: Wi-Fi internet is now available while running at 320 kph between Paris, Brussels, Köln, and Amsterdam. At the same time, Thalys inaugurated the portal associated to the [...]

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