High-speed rail in Europe

[tony64]

The shortest way to connect the European cities on earth:

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8731/highspeedrailmapeurope2.gif

[tony64]

Some capitals are already connected to high-speed rail: London, Madrid, Lisboa, Amsterdam, Brussels, Roma, Berlin, Vienna, Bern, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Moskva, Ankara

[tony64]

If somebody know more information about the high-speed rail in Europe or plans about connection with other capitals (Prague, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Budapest, Zagreb, Belgrad, Bucharest, Sofia, Athen, Tallin, Riga, Vilnius, please share it here!

[Fallout]

Warsaw is to be connected with Poznan, Wroclaw, Krakow, Lodz and Katowice by speedrail by 2020. The connection can be further extended internationally:

Warsaw - Lodz - Poznan - Berlin
Warsaw -Lodz - Wroclaw - Dresden
Warsaw -Lodz - Wroclaw - Prague
Warsaw - Katowice - Bratislava - Vienna
Warsaw - Katowice - Budapest

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[tony64]

AbuDabi! Welcome to skyscrapercity!

[Dziggy]

in Serbia situation is pathetic. Reconstruction of railways started this year after many many years of stagnation. even those are reconstructions for 100-200 km oer h

[tony64]

Hungary and Romania
The two countries have agreed in November 2007 to build a high speed line between their capital cities Budapest and Bucharest which would be a part of a larger transportation corridor Paris-Vienna-Budapest-(Timisoara)-Bucharest-Constanta. There is no clear schedule for the project yet, but feasibility studies, ecological impact studies and right-of-way land purchase should not begin before 2009. The link will be designed to support speeds up to 300 km/h, but no technical details have been made public as of March 2008.

Hungary and Serbia
The main cities between Budapest and Beograd (Belgrade) are Kecskemét (population 110 000) , Szeged (163 000), Subotica (148 000), and Novi Sad (300 000). However, they are not in a straight line, and are not served by a single rail line.
The solution proposed here is a high-speed line from Budapest though Kecskemét to Szeged. The line would start from a new station at Budapest Ferihegy airport, and approximately follow the M5 motorway to Kecskemét. South of Kiskunfélegyháza, the line would split, with a high-speed line on a completely new alignment, almost due south to Subotica. Apart from this section and the Ferihegy- Kecskemét line, the lines would follow existing rail lines, allowing construction section by section. This combination of lines gives an optimum solution from a European perspective, and goes further than the limited corridors proposed by the EU.

Hungary and Slovenia
From Ljubljana to Budapest

Hungary and Austria
From Vienna to Budapest



http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/670/highspeedrail.jpg

[Mateusz]

any details regarding speed ?

[alexQ]

In Romania there are works ongoing on Bucharest-Constanta railway which theoretically should be ready this summer and on Bucharest-Brasov railway which are almost completed to the city of Campina .
I don't know Tony if the route marked there on your map is actually the one proposed for Bucharest-Budapest Highspeed rail .That route is used for the Bucharest-Timisoara trains and it is in a pretty good shape to the city of Filiasi.
The trains that travel from Bucharest to Budapest use the route through Brasov -AlbaIulia-Deva-Arad.

[tony64]

In Romania there are works ongoing on Bucharest-Constanta railway which theoretically should be ready this summer and on Bucharest-Brasov railway which are almost completed to the city of Campina .
I don't know Tony if the route marked there on your map is actually the one proposed for Bucharest-Budapest Highspeed rail .That route is used for the Bucharest-Timisoara trains and it is in a pretty good shape to the city of Filiasi.
The trains that travel from Bucharest to Budapest use the route through Brasov -AlbaIulia-Deva-Arad.

I can't already find the article with the planned track.
But there is a quote:

"Budapest-Bukarest gyorsvasút. Lehet, hogy öt év múlva már senki sem mosolyog ezen az egyelőre merésznek tűnő terven. Románia ugyanis olyannyira komolyan gondolja a 250 km/h sebességgel száguldó vasút ötletét, hogy a megvalósíthatósági tanulmánytervre a 2008-as büdzsében már el is különítették a pénzt. Ludovic Orban közlekedési miniszter pedig már a politikailag motivált nyomvonalat is felvázolta. Az első kelet-európai gyorsvasút "a költségek csökkentése érdekében elkerülné Erdélyt", Dél-Románián keresztül Temesvár környékén lépné át a határt, és tartana a magyar főváros irányába. Stefan Roseanu, a román vasútipari egyesület főtitkára viszont szkeptikusan szemléli a nagyravágyó terveket."

It was written in 2007. It says, the money was in 2008 allocated for it. Orban Ludovic sketched out the lines. They should be lead out of Transylvania to hold the costs low. It could race in the southern of Romania, and could across the border somewhere by Timisoara.

This picture shared blogen in the [Hungary] Railway Infrastructure (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=501222&page=83&highlight=szeged) thread:
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2134/highspeedrailmapeurope2.png

[Mr_Dru]

HSL-Zuid (price: €6.7 Billion)
Originally scheduled to be in service by 2007, but the first public operations began on September 7, 2009. And that isn't the only delay. The Dutch railways is still waiting to receive their highspeedtrains from the Italian trainmanufacture AnsaldoBreda. The trains had to be delivered in 2007! And still nobody knows when the new trains wil arrive.

http://www.hslzuid.nl/hsl/Images/bedieningspatroon_494x442_tcm51-22105.jpg

Amsterdam-Rotterdam, 62 km, 0:43 (currently 0:58)
Amsterdam-Breda, 105 km, 0:59 (currently 1:44)
Amsterdam-Antwerp, 152 km, 1:10 (currently 2:00)
Amsterdam-Brussels, 199 km, 1:44 (currently 2:40)
Amsterdam-Paris, 492 km, 3:13 (currently 4:11)
The Hague-Brussels 1:44 (currently 2:17)
Breda-Brussels 0:59 (currently 1:44)

http://www.hslzuid.nl/hsl/Images/TP060706%20HSL%20OPENBAKBERGSCHENHOEK006_tcm51-241806.JPG

http://www.benthemcrouwel.nl/www.benthemcrouwel.nl/portal_presentation/bridges/high-speed-train/s_hsl-hogesnelheidslijn-brug-highspeedline-bridge-0001.jpg/Image

The Dutch railways received only one single train for testing.
http://www.tourpress.nl/materials/pers_pages/090707_090707_gr_hsltrein_fyra.jpg

Currently there is a limited service between Amsterdam and Rotterdam with conventional carriages and rented TRAXX locomotives!
http://www.treinennieuws.nl/wp-content/HSL-Zuid-01s21.jpg

Only the Thalys (Amsterdam-Brussel-Paris) is in full operation with the maximum speed of 300 km/h.
http://www.bndestem.nl/multimedia/archive/00333/thalys_333170b.jpg

[heywindup]

How come the Channel Tunnel is in gray and not in red?

[tony64]

How come the Channel Tunnel is in gray and not in red?

I read, the Channel is 50.5 km long and the train takes this section in 35 minutes, so the average speed is not more than 85.7 km/h! Yes it is average, so maybe the highest speed can be a bit more. But I don't know direct dates.

[heywindup]

I read, the Channel is 50.5 km long and the train takes this section in 35 minutes, so the average speed is not more than 85.7 km/h! Yes it is average, so maybe the highest speed can be a bit more. But I don't know direct dates.
So, if they upgrade the rail tracks to enable trains to run with speeds greater than 300 km/h, then it will shave about 25 minutes in the tunnel itself. That means London to Paris can be around 1h45 travel time.

[Qtya]

I read, the Channel is 50.5 km long and the train takes this section in 35 minutes, so the average speed is not more than 85.7 km/h! Yes it is average, so maybe the highest speed can be a bit more. But I don't know direct dates.

When I traveled in the Channel, I was told the trains have to reduce speed to 160-180kms in the tunnel. After it we traveled with the speed of 318 km/h.

[tony64]

When I traveled in the Channel, I was told the trains have to reduce speed to 160-180kms in the tunnel. After it we traveled with the speed of 318 km/h.

Thanks, so it is the answer, why is this track grey. Because 160-180 km/h is less than 200, the border of the colorization. :)

[Mateusz]

Plans are pretty much well known for Western Europe. Any details, speeds or maps for the following countries in Eastern Europe ?

-Czech Republic
-Slovakia
-Hungary
-Romania
-Slovenia
-Bulgaria
-Serbia

[Marek.kvackaj]

no High-speed rails in Slovakia (over 160 km/h)

anyway

International Project

TEN-T 17 (railway axis Paris-Strasbourg-Stuttgart-Vienna-Bratislava), which will be in Bratislava connected with TEN-T 23 (railway axis Gdansk–Warsaw–Bratislava–Vienna).

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2163/prepojenieletiskaskoridqm8.jpg

Domestic Project

Bratislava-Kosice railway modernisation to 160 km/h

completed by 1/3 remaining 2/3 will be completed till 2020

in some parts is already possible to reach over 200 km/h however max travel speed will be 160km/h

Bratislava-Kosice = Red corridor Va
http://www.zsr.sk/buxus/images/koridory.jpg

more here! (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=32098290)