Meanwhile the Eurostar high-speed train has resumed its service between London, Paris and Brussels but with delays.
In France, rail operator SNCF is preparing for increased competition by launching the first ever low-cost, high speed train.
"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 crash in Germany is set to become one of the worst train disasters in European history.
This is applicable around the world but in the UK particularly so at present for the high speed train project.
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The new rail station rule is intended to give passengers better access to intercity, commuter and high-speed train travel across the country.
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.
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.
The high-speed train, nationally financed, is due, at last, in 2004.
How smart is Dagny and Ellis for not testing the steel themselves but they bravely ride a high speed train over a bridge made of it?
Those standing on a platform in Leeds or Manchester will have to wait 21 years for a high speed train to arrive, and that's if it's on schedule.
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.
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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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.
Work for Parker pens, the 1997 redesign of the London black cab and the Adshel bus shelter are among his other designs but he says the InterCity 125 high speed train has had "the most impact on the general life of the public".
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.
The front page of the L.A. Times today features the policy debate around a high speed bullet train in California.
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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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