Meanwhile the Eurostar high-speed train has resumed its service between London, Paris and Brussels but with delays.
"There are other trains in Europe but for me high-speed train will be the future of Europe, " he says.
And one example it used to point to as a source of pride was the world-beating high-speed train system.
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The accident occurred after one train stalled following a lightning strike, and then a second high-speed train ran into it.
The high-speed train cuts travel time between the two cities from 10 hours to less than five when it is running.
The new rail station rule is intended to give passengers better access to intercity, commuter and high-speed train travel across the country.
Several weeks later the cell that carried out the attack attempted to blow up a bridge on the Madrid-Seville high-speed train line.
The possibilities include Brussels, Vienna and Dublin, where you can catch a high-speed train or snag an intra-European budget airfare to almost anywhere.
"You can fly from Shanghai to Frankfurt or from New York to Charles de Gaulle and then connect to the high-speed train, " says Pepy.
But as we finally trundled into Wuhan, overtaken by yet another sleek-nosed high-speed train, I asked a fellow traveller about China's upcoming leadership changes.
The city is getting an extensive new bus system, and the much-touted Gautrain is a high-speed train line that will link Jo' burg and Pretoria.
We are the first high-speed train in Italy ... we served 25 million consumers in the last year and I think our numbers are unbeatable.
In July a high-speed train crashed near Wenzhou, leaving 40 dead.
The high-speed train, nationally financed, is due, at last, in 2004.
High-speed train operator Eurostar, which runs services linking Paris, Brussels and London, among other destinations, has canceled the rest of its services Tuesday and told passengers to stay at home.
High-speed train operator Eurostar, which runs services linking Paris, Brussels and London, among other destinations, has canceled the rest of its services Tuesday and urged passengers to stay at home.
The two parks are to be connected by a 30-mile highway, as well as a high-speed train that will run every five minutes and transport more than 86, 000 passengers a day.
Mr Berlusconi's spokesman explained that he could not after all be there as he had to lay the first stone for a high-speed train-bridge and then meet the Bulgarian foreign minister.
King's Lynn is also a similar distance to King's Cross station, where tourists will then be able to take a seven-minute transfer to the Olympic Park via a new high-speed train.
At the moment making connections, for example between a Eurostar service from London to Paris and then to a TGV across France or an ICE high-speed train through Germany can be complicated.
And national scandals, such as the high-speed train crash on July 23rd, news of which the authorities would have liked quietly to bury along with the wreckage, suddenly become enormous political problems.
China's rail industry was dealt a major setback a year ago, when a deadly high-speed train collision near the eastern city of Wenzhou raised questions about whether the country's rail ambitions were moving too fast.
He also saw the need to modernise our infrastructure in order to catch up with the rest of Europe - everything from high-speed train networks and motorways to nuclear power plants and high-speed internet access.
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In particular, the fury caused by the high-speed train crash at Wenzhou in July, in which at least 40 people died, has raised troubling questions about the railways' safety and, more broadly, about the political system itself.
ECONOMIST: Disarray in the West generates mixed reactions in Asia
Passenger numbers on the high-speed train between London, Brussels and Paris fell 1% to 2.6 million between July and September, which the train operator said was because "tourists who were not going to the Games were encouraged to avoid London".
Despite some of the best roads on the continent and a number of high-profile infrastructure projects, including a high-speed train and a bus service built for the 2010 football World Cup, commuting in Johannesburg is often an arduous task for millions of people.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
This slight, bespectacled Metro Man says the expansion, which includes a high-speed airport train to the city center, is all under control.
From the high-speed-train tracks, escalators lifted me past a bold new gridded superstructure by architect Jacques Voncke into the glorious cathedral of the original turn-of-the-20th-century station.
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