Railway Gazette International

High Speed 2 told to explore cutting speeds to reduce costs

UK: Secretary of State for Transport Heidi Alexander has told HS2 Ltd to look at lowering the maximum speed of future train ...

Huge update to HS2 plans with train speeds set to change to cut costs

High Speed 2 - known as HS2 - was originally commissioned to run at 360km/h, which would have made its trains the fastest ...

High speed HS2 trains may be SLOWED DOWN in bid to stop £100billion project spiralling further out of control

HS2 trains may be slowed down in a bid to stop the £100billion project spiralling further out of control. Ministers are ...
LBC

HS2 trains could run slower than planned as UK has no bespoke test track

HS2 has been designed to allow trains to run at up to 360km/h (224mph), but most high-speed trains in this country run at up ...

High-speed rail is commonplace in many other countries. Will it track in the U.S.?

With high-speed rail ambitions in California delayed by years and coming in at a higher-than-expected cost, Lou Thompson, who ...
RailAdvent

Book Review: Express Diesel Trains by George Woods

Express Diesel Trains describes the evolution of Britain’s high-speed trains from 1968, when a prototype of the familiar Class 43 HST was developed.
Railway Technology

SBB shortlists four firms for high-speed train leasing contract

SBB aims to deploy high-speed trains on cross-border routes to Italy and France, with the possibility of extending services to Spain and the UK. Credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images Swiss ...
CNN

When something goes wrong at 186 mph: Inside the fast-reaction world of high-speed train drivers

At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name ...