Rob Jones spoke as Neath Port Talbot’s cabinet backed a joint venture to set up a Global Centre of Rail Excellence. Currently manufacturers have to send trains across Europe for testing before they come back to the UK for service. The Nant Helen opencast mine near Ystradgynlais is the preferred site for the scheme, which Powys council…
Details（China’s high-speed rail network carries 4 million passengers every day, connecting some of the country’s top draws） China has built the world’s longest high-speed rail network and is continuing to expand it rapidly. With a total length of 29,000 km by the end of 2018, high-speed rail now covers 30 of the country’s 34 provincial-level…
DetailsBUDAPEST, May 7 (Xinhua) — Planning has started for a new high-speed railway system linking the Visegrad Group (V4) countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) together, according to local media on Tuesday. “In two years, the feasibility study on the high-speed railway linking Budapest-Bratislava-Brno-Warsaw will be completed,” Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reported here,…
Details（Students practice driving a high-speed train in a simulator at Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Technical College in Ayutthaya, Thailand, in February. YANG ZHOU/XINHUA） “Now the train moves forward,” said 20-year-old Arthitaya Sapkum, who was attentively looking at a screen that simulates the locomotive window of a high-speed train, while her classmates were operating the control…
DetailsConductors may allow passengers to extend trips only when not overbooked The country’s railway operator said it will no longer allow train conductors to sell extended tickets to passengers who are already on board because the practice created overcrowding problems over the May Day holiday last week and was unfair to passengers who had booked…
DetailsHigh-speed rail puts Zhanjiang on fast-track for economic growth A new era is welcomed with much faster route to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Zheng Renhao (right), Party secretary of Zhanjiang, and Jiang Jianjun, mayor of Zhanjiang, take part in the first public trial run of the new high-speed rail service between Guangzhou and Zhanjiang.…
DetailsHigh-speed trains to go even faster Workers check Fuxing bullet trains in the assembly workshop of CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co in Qingdao, Shandong province, in June. Operator taps cutting-edge tech to improve passengers’ experience China’s high-speed railway system is setting more ambitious goals for domestically developed Fuxing bullet trains, Lu Dongfu, head of the national…
DetailsFormer security chief demolishes arguments against arrangement for joint boundary control at West Kowloon Co-location of boundary control facilities by Hong Kong and mainland authorities inside the West Kowloon Station is the “right and only” way to connect the city to the nation’s high-speed rail network, says Lai Tung-kwok. The former Hong Kong Special Administrative…
DetailsXicheng Expressway, a key passage linking downtown Zhanjiang with Zhanjiang West (High-speed) Railway Station, will finish construction by the end of September and be handed over for acceptance in December. Costing 1.28 billion yuan ($201 million yuan), the dual eight-lane structure is built to national first-class highway standards and allows a maximum speed of 80…
DetailsGerman rail and commercial vehicles braking systems manufacturer, Knorr-Bremse AG, has been operating in China since the 1970s, and has contributed a great deal to the nation’s thriving railway system. Headquartered in the city of Munich, the over 110-year-old company generated more than 6 billion euros ($7 billion) in revenue in 2017. Klaus Deller, chairman…
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