Raymond Atkins, Terry Hynes and Morgan Lindsay from the Transportation Group at Sidley Austin LLP detail why they believe that private investment is the way forward for high-speed rail in the U.S., but not without government support.

Watch DuPont Nomex FREE on-demand webinar. As they discuss their journey through time and learn how insulation technology helped evolve the railway industry for the past 40 years. Find out how the different Nomex solutions and applications played a key role in the development and advancement of high-speed trains. And finally, learn more about the latest market trends and how Nomex® will continue to support the progress of railway technologies.

The research agreement will enable HS2 to draw upon key centres of British academic excellence to help to drive new insight across a broad range of disciplines.

Four Avelia Euroduplex trains from SNCF’s fleet have entered commercial service on the Madrid-Barcelona route and will be operated by OUIGO España.

With oversight from the UK’s Office of Rail and Road, Hitachi Rail, train operators and the government have agreed a service recovery plan to safely reintroduce more Class 800 Series and 385 Series trainsets into passenger service after cracks were found on some trains.