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unusual facts about Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway


Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.


Amsterdam Zuid railway station

These routes from Schiphol therefore bypass the congested lines serving Central Amsterdam, allowing faster connections between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and cities in the north and east of the country (Leeuwarden and Enschede, among others).

Audi Tunnel

The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

Buenos Aires–Rosario–Córdoba high-speed railway

Today, the service is disrupted by serious deficiencies and delays and takes over seven hours, more than the service provided in the '50s by "El Marplatense" with speeds of up to 90 + mph (150 km/h) making the run in 3 hrs 45 min in then cutting edge Budd-built formations.

The Argentine state secretary of transport, Ricardo Jaime, announced on 27 March 2008 that the finance minister Martín Lousteau and the consortium led by the French company Alstom approved a resolution to finance the Buenos Aires—Rosario—Cordoba High Speed Train (TAVe).

Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway

Under a second stage, the section between Düren and Langerwehe is to be upgraded for speeds up to 200 km/h.

The opening of the line created further connections as the already well-developed Belgian network had two connections with northern France, but the routes to Paris was only finished in 1846, on 16 June from Valenciennes, and on 20 June 1846 from Lille.

The federal and state governments agreed to spend 1.1 billion D-Marks on building two new tracks between Cologne and Düren for high-speed trains and develop the existing line for S-Bahn services.

Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway

The new line runs north of the existing Erfurt-Weissenfels-Leipzig route in the Thuringian Basin past Buttstädt, crosses the Finn hills between Rastenberg and Bad Bibra and crosses the Unstrut near Karsdorf.

The six km-long Saale-Elster viaduct crosses some meadows in the Saale and the Weiße Elster valleys between Schkopau and Halle that are part of a protected area under the European Union’s Habitats Directive.

Hanau-Gelnhausen high-speed railway

The Hanau-Gelnhausen high-speed railway is a planned railway connecting Hanau and Gelnhausen in Germany.

Hefei–Bengbu High-Speed Railway

With the fastest (G-series) trains on the new line, the travel time from Hefei to Beijing South Railway Station is only four hours.

HSL-Oost

HSL-Oost (Dutch: Hogesnelheidslijn-Oost, English: High-Speed Line East) is the name of the now-cancelled high-speed railway line from Amsterdam to Germany via the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Arnhem.

Jinghu

Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway, high speed railway between Beijing and Shanghai in China

Kent Route Utilisation Strategy

Uniquely, this RUS area encompasses the only dedicated very high-speed railway in the United Kingdom, the so-called High Speed 1 (HS1), over which domestic, as opposed to the established international, services started a few weeks prior to publication of the RUS.

Köln West station

The freight train tracks separate at an at-grade junction at the northern end of West Cologne station; one line connects to the Ehrenfeld district and on to the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway and another runs to Cologne-Nippes and on to the Lower Left Rhine Railway.

Long Thanh International Airport

The airport will be accessible by National Route 51, Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thành Highway (under construction), Biên HòaVũng Tàu Expressway, Long An–Long Thành Expressway, Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thành high-speed railway, Ho Chi Minh City–Nha Trang high-speed railway.

Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed railway

The longest tunnel of this kind was the Pfingstberg tunnel, which leads through a forest, a declared water protection zone, near Mannheim-Rheinau.

Merzenich station

Merzenich is a railway station situated at Merzenich, Kreis Düren in western Germany on the Cologne–Aachen railway.

Nuremberg–Erfurt high-speed railway

The 83 km long line is part of the existing railway highway circuit from Nuremberg via Saalfeld to Halle and is being upgraded to a maximum speed up to 230  km/h trains.

Starting from Erfurt station the line runs west through the Gera valley on the northern side of the tracks of the Thüringer Bahn (Halle-Bebra line).

Paul Mijksenaar

Mijksenaar is a specialist in creating visual information systems, such as wayfinding signage for railway stations and airports including New York's JFK and LaGuardia, New Jersey's Newark, and Amsterdam's Schiphol.

Qingyuan Railway Station

On the Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, it is served by 300km/h (186mph) high speed trains .

Reactions to the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 attack

Members of the Second Chamber (Lower House) of the Dutch parliament demanded an explanation from Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin, asking how the suspect managed to smuggle explosives on board, despite Schiphol's reportedly strict security measures.

Regional-Express

Since late 2006, Regional-Express services between Munich and Nuremberg that operate on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway reach top speeds of 200 km/h.

Turin–Milan high-speed railway

Among the most important structures is the 3.8 kilometre-long Santhià Viaduct and the 600 metre-long Pregnana Milanese Tunnel.

Weesp–Leiden railway

Amsterdam De Vlugtlaan was closed in 2000, after the opening of the Hemboog: a chord at Amsterdam Sloterdijk which connects Schiphol and the city of Zaandam.

Weinan Weihe Grand Bridge

The Weinan Weihe Grand Bridge (渭南渭河特大桥) is a part of the Zhengzhou–Xi'an High-Speed Railway which connects Zhengzhou and Xi'an, in China.


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