In brief: High-Speed Rail news from the world

Posted on March 10, 2008 by Matthieu Desiderio

High-Speed Rail IS highly profitable to the economy

Atkins, a planning and engineering consultants company, said that High-Speed Rail (HSR) links between London and Scotland may be worth more than £60 billion to the United Kingdom’s economy. However, such HSR lines may not be built and operated before 2026. The study shows that two lines should be constructed: one going up the west coast towards Glasgow, the other up the east coast toward Edinburgh.

High-Speed Rails attracts passengers

On the other side of the world, Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp., the company that operates Taiwan HSR trains, announced that the number of high-speed rail passengers recently topped 20 million on Friday, March 7, 2008. Slightly more than a year after it began operation of this new train service, the company reached this level and also beat its monthly passenger volume (reaching 2.095 million in February).

Operations began January 5, 2007, then, Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp. topped 5 million passengers on May 28, 10 million on September 18, and 15 million on December 21.

References

Article: Number of high-speed rail passengers tops 20 million, The China Post, Mar. 9, 2008: here
Article: Rail links ‘may be worth billions’, UK Press on Google, Mar. 10, 2008: here

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