On 7 July 2025, the International Union of Railways (UIC) convened its 106th General Assembly in Beijing, hosted by China ...

Implementing high-speed rail nationwide would be detrimental to these towns, in turn undermining key parts of the overall ...

High-speed rail is generally understood in the U.S. as reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour, although the Brightline West is averaging about half that speed.

The Trump administration notified California officials Wednesday that federal funding for the state’s massive high-speed rail project is at risk of being pulled after a four-month review ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed ...

President Donald Trump is about to snatch $4 billion away from California’s high-speed rail project — and all that’s doing is reinforcing Democrats’ iron-willed support for the beleaguered ...

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed train, the TGV Inoui. (TGV stands for train à grande vitesse, or ...

The high-speed rail project Smith was discussing comes as part of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor project. Newsweek has contacted the media office of Brad Smith via email for comment.

The first high-speed rail line, launched in 2008, linked Beijing with Tianjin, just 75 miles away. During the 2008 global financial crisis, China ramped up investments in infrastructure, ...