China has already been expressing an interest in Britain's plans to build high-speed railway links.
China's own high-speed railway network has been lauded as a symbol of this country's far-sighted infrastructure investment policy.
Several are also nervous that a planned high-speed railway link between London and several northern cities may be scaled back.
Investment in railways, especially in the ambitious high-speed railway network, had previously stalled following a deadly accident and a high-profile corruption scandal two years ago.
Greens would have liked to see Vancouver linked to Whistler the site of the downhill events, 124km (78 miles) to the north by a high-speed railway line.
China is even going to the US to become involved in high-speed railway projects, where it can offer the engineering expertise and financing to Americans.
As I write, the UK Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, is answering questions from increasingly irate Tory MPs about plans to build a high-speed railway - HS2 - through their constituencies.
Among its projects: the Mecca-to-Medina high-speed railway in Saudi Arabia, the Marmaray railway linking the European and Asian sides of Istanbul in Turkey and the Ural Polar railway project in Russia.
"Prime Minister Singh noted Japan's interest in supporting the introduction of high-speed railway system in India, " the joint statement noted, adding that he "appreciated Japan's high level of expertise in designing and implementing" shinkansen systems.
The accident followed a fatal high-speed railway crash last July that called into question the pace and quality of China's high-speed-rail buildout, which officials had touted as a signature program and a sign of the nation's rising technological might.
Preliminary estimates suggest that the cost of constructing a high-speed railway line and acquiring trains to run on them would be in the range of Rs. 70 crore to Rs. 100 crore per km, translating to at least Rs. 37, 000 crore for a Mumbai-Ahmedabad line.
Part of the problem is that, until recently, it had been assumed that the Olympics would hasten, and benefit from, Crossrail, a long-mooted plan for a high-speed east-west railway across the city.
Another drag on earnings: traffic on the high-speed airport-to-downtown railway has been below expectations, due to the squeeze on travel during the Asian Crisis.
The 68-mile high speed railway line runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone in Kent.
He told Forbes.com that it was not only mail operators like Deutsche Post and France's La Poste looking to use high-speed rail networks--now big projects such as the new freight railway between the Netherlands and Germany had attracted a wider mix of businesses.
He told Forbes.com that it was not only mail operators like Deutsche Post (other-otc: DPSTF - news - people ) and France's La Poste looking to use high-speed rail networks--now big projects such as the new freight railway between the Netherlands and Germany had attracted a wider mix of businesses.
The Transport Committee will be venturing into controversial territory when it opens its inquiry into HS2 - the plan for a high speed railway with assorted campaigners and railway executives.
Anyway, when MPs have got those issues off their chest, they can turn to a general debate on HS2 - the controversial plan for a high speed railway from London to Birmingham, and eventually Manchester.
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The small section of high-speed track will be connected at both ends to existing lines used by Amtrak, the government-owned passenger railway.
For the main arteries of its network, SpeedNet will use 64, 000-kilometres of Tepco's high-speed data links, which are strung along the streets and railway lines of greater Tokyo, sharing poles and conduits with its electricity cables.
But railway planners talk of a two-day high-speed trip from Shanghai to London by 2025.
Despite having to slow its originally rapid expansion plans, China recently increased its budget for railway investment this year by 16% and expects to lay 13, 000 km of high-speed rail by January 2013 -- more than the combined rail network installed across all Western countries over the past half-century.
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