The Texas legislature will debate a bill that would make building a high-speed railway in the state more difficult, the Houston Public Media website reports.  If passed, “Bill 1402” would…

Siemens Mobility has announced plans to build a $60m factory in New York State to manufacture high-speed trains for the Brightline West route between Las Vegas and southern California. The…

China Railway Number 4 Engineering Group (CREC 4) has been chosen to carry out civil engineering works on Morocco’s high-speed rail line between the port of Kenitra, 30km north of…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and publicly-owned Spanish infrastructure group Adif Alta Velocidad have agreed to loan €430m towards a 182km high-speed rail line in Spain’s Basque Province. The double-track…

Foster + Partners has released its designs for four stations in the Central Valley section of California’s Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail line. The station, which were designed in conjunction…

In a first for Italy, contractor Webuild is using increased air pressure to create a hyperbaric atmosphere in a section of tunnel it’s building under Naples for the Naples-Bari high-speed-high…

Construction has begun on the US’ first true high-speed rail line, a 351km link between Las Vegas and Southern California. The $12bn Brightline West, which will travel at speeds of…

Morocco has issued a tender for a 375km high-speed railway between the port of Kenitra north of Rabat on the Atlantic coast to the city of Marrakech in the southwest.…

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has authorised another $2.5bn in private activity bonds for the 218-mile Brightline West high-speed railway planned between Las Vegas, Nevada and just outside Los…

The body in charge of India’s first high-speed railway said Monday it had bought all the 1,400ha of land it needed for the project, and had awarded all civil engineering…

The US Department of Transportation has given a grant of nearly $202m to California’s ongoing solar-powered high-speed rail project.

Construction has begun on the 1,600m-long “super major bridge” that will span China’s Yellow River and link Henan Province Shandong provinces. According to state press agency Xinhua, the bridge will…

UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has underwritten €781m of financing for a 286km high-speed railway across southern Turkey. Its Buyer Credit Facility will help contractor…

The government of Mexico has hired Canadian rail operator Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) to carry out a feasibility study for a 220km high-speed railway between Mexico City and the…

A South Korean consortium has won a $33m contract to design a 70km-long section of high-speed railway in Poland linking the southern city of Katowice to Ostrava on the Czech…

Work has finished on a 250,000-sq-m extension to Xiamen North Railway Station, which is to be a terminus of China’s latest high-speed rail line. When it opens to the public…

A joint venture between UK consulting engineer Arup and architect Foster + Partners has been selected to design four stations for the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed railway. The planning, architecture…

Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) has announced plans to buy 12 of Japan’s latest model of bullet train for $935m, Japan News reports.