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Battery Powered Inter-city Train Under Development , Railway Gazette, 5 June 2023 This is to suggest 200 kph battery powered high speed trai...

On 26 August 2013, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) released a proposal for " East Coast High Speed Rail ". The ALP also published...

The Greens party have released " Building High Speed Rail: 21st Century Infrastructure " (The Greens, 5 August 2013). This propos...

Stephen Byron, from Capital Airport Group, will speak on “Planes, Trains and Regional Development”, at University of Canberra, 5.30pm-7.00pm...

Mr. Anthony Albanese , the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, released the High speed rail study phase 2 report , 11 April 2013. Th...

Canberra Airport is planning a high speed rail terminal to quickly transfer passenger to Sydney ( Airport willing to fund rail terminal , AB...

Greetings from GovHack at Macquarie University in Sydney There are about 50 people here for the final session of the weekend event. Curren...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where Professor James Weirick (UNSW) is speaking on The Art of City Design:...

The NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell, has proposed to use a high-speed rail line from Sydney to Canberra in place of a second Sydney airpor...

The book " High Speed Trains " by Peter Clark, might be better titled "High Speed Trains of the World and Some Slower Ones in...

The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, released the report " High Speed Rail Study - Phase One " on 4 A...

A very high speed train from Sydney, through Canberra, to Melbourne would replace about 75% of flights on one of the worlds busiest air corr...

The International Union of Railways (UIC) and DB (German Railways) cashed in on the in on the COP15 Copenhagen climate change talks with a ...

On 12 February 2009, the UK Government announced that Hitachi trains from the Agility Trains consortium would replace the InterCity 125...

The Canberra Business Council made a submission on " High Speed Rail for Australia: An opportunity for the 21st century " in April...

In 2005 I wrote about a trip from Sydney to Canberra on a Swedish X2000 high speed Tilt Train, being tried. While very comfortable, the til...

Colin Butcher has produced a series of articles in Railway Digest on the feasibility of running high speed trains between Melbourne, Canberr...

In 2000 Eurostar gave me a free trip from London to Paris first class, with a quick visit to the UNESCO's Observatory on the Informatio...