Sentences with phrase «speed railway»

Earlier this month, the Police officers wearing these smart glasses are spotted at Zhengzhou high - speed railway station while screening out passengers with fake documents.
All Police officers at the Zhengzhou high - speed railway station are now using these smart glasses to make the security check process faster.
Everyone takes pride in what they do because, quite simply, we want to be the world's leading high speed railway.
The firm has built a long - standing collaboration with premier construction companies in Japan, playing a key role in Japan - Taiwan joint venture consultation and representation of related claims, arbitrations, and litigations, notably for cases involving the high - speed railway and rapid transit system.
That included buses up to the mountain events, although some would have liked to see a high - speed railway line up to Whistler instead.
The Federal Railroad Administration is hoping Japan and other countries will help the United States to build a high - speed railway network.
The contracts have been signed, and the first high - speed railway in the Americas will be built very soon - but not where you're thinking.
This body of work was made in response to Alfred's month long trip to Japan to research a project for Japan Railways to create animations in relation to the Niigata area for the Genbi Shinkansen, a high - speed railway service.
The property's outstanding postition allows visitors to relax for a few days in a superb protected area just a stone's throw from the city, just 5 minutes from Córdoba centre and the AVE high - speed railway station.
The Radisson Hotel Wuxi Hi - Tech Zone is situated four kilometres from the new train station which easily connects Shanghai to Beijing on the high - speed railway, and is only six kilometres from Wuxi airport.
The new hotel is within walking distance of many shopping and entertainment venues, and is 30 minutes away from Wuhan Tianhe Airport, as well as 15 minutes from the city's high - speed railway station.
ASSOCIATE WEST COAST EDITOR BLAKE Z. RONG: I drove all $ 128,529 of the 2013 Lexus LS 600h L to Monterey, Calif., and San Francisco from Los Angeles, and boy, let me tell you: until California finally reigns in its budgetary problems — of which I am aiding through copious parking tickets — and finally builds the high - speed railway system it deserves and will never utilize, there's no finer way to wind up and down the Central Valley than in this.
Burbank, CA, April 5 — See the unique story of three friends who became heroes when «The 15:17 to Paris» arrives From Academy Award winning director it * Clint Eastwood which tells the real - life story of three men whose brave act turned them into heroes during a high - speed railway ride.
Evguenij Sotnikov, head of Russia's high - speed railway team, spoke of plans to link Moscow with St Petersburg in just three hours.
Since the Communist Party signaled its intention to create a national park system in a 2013 planning document, the government has banned logging in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, canceled a highway project that would have bisected big cat habitat, and rerouted a high - speed railway connecting China to Vladivostok, a city on Russia's Pacific coast.
Now, 140 years after the transcontinental railroad's nearly 2,900 kilometers of track first connected both U.S. coasts, a number of states are hoping for a second golden age of rail, this time fueled by the Obama administration's pledge of billions of stimulus dollars for high - speed railway development.
«Global warming and climate change... increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen in an earlier paper with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.
Ironically, Maria Eagle is now supporting a policy first floated and promoted by the Conservative Party in 2009 and backed by the creator of Britain's first high speed railway through Kent, between St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel (HS1).
Sir David Higgins, who is taking over the body developing the high - speed railway line between London and Birmingham, has been stating his case for the new rail line.
The announcement that construction of a new 250mph high - speed railway will get underway by 2017 is good news for both the environment and the economy of Britain.
In this role, he pioneered the plan for High Speed 2, the proposed high - speed railway line from London to Birmingham and the north of England.
Engineers are today warning that the current High Speed 2 proposals must learn from the mistakes made during the planning of the first high speed railway line which connects London and the Channel Tunnel.
With the West's infrastructure falling apart, we envy their vast network of high - speed railway lines — more extensive than in the rest of the world combined — never mind the 5,000 kilometres to be laid over the next two years alone.
In recent years, China single - handedly accounted for about 15 per cent of global GDP and half of global growth — namely by sucking up the world's supplies of raw materials and using them to build everything from high - speed railways to forests of apartment towers to house its 1.3 billion people.
«Let them learn the skills we need to build Britain's future power stations, high - speed railways and exportable technologies.
This week Theresa Villiers MP, Shadow Transport Secretary, outlines the official Conservative policy and its vision of high speed railways.
Dedicated tracks are important to the development of high - speed railways.
The initiative has drawn support from over 100 countries, and already has led to establishment of the Silk Road Fund; the expansion of trade and business; the development of high - speed railways; a deepening of communication on policy and enhanced exchanges between people and cultures in the region.
The Taipei construction lawyers have accumulated extensive experience concerning both domestic and international construction practice, particularly in connection to high - speed railways, rapid transit systems, BOT, offshore oil pipeline installation, shopping malls, government buildings, highways, and bridges.

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Some worry China's high - speed rail experiment will lead to a debt crisis, since the mammoth project has already saddled China's railway ministry with US$ 150 billion in debt.
China has frozen approval of new railway projects and halted some bullet train manufacturing, stepping up an overhaul of its controversial high - speed network after a July collision that killed 40 people.
In the nineteenth century land travel was speeded up by the invention of steam locomotion and the development of railways.
More than 25 large - scale model railway trains and trolleys — including American steam engines and streetcars from the late 1800s to modern - day freight and high - speed passenger trains — travel across rustic bridges, along overhead trestles, through tunnels and past waterfalls that cascade into flowing creeks.
My personal favorite is the Crash at Crush, where an otherwise unremarkable railway agent in Texas decided that colliding two steam engines at full speed would make a great event.
To improve the railways, the Lib Dems support plans for high speed north - south and east - west lines, arguing these could provide a viable alternative to internal flights.
It is nothing short of a scandal that we left the failing Railway structure in place for 13 years and only got round to considering High Speed Rail at the very end.
Being much involved in the railways, I see the need for extra capacity on the West Coast Main Line corridor, but not the need to go 400kph to get to Birmingham a few minutes earlier, when the faster speed technology is again not proven.
Three enabling works contracts worth a total of # 900M to build the first phase of the High Speed 2 railway between London and Birmingham have been announced by the Government.
Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon sponsored a resolution calling for improvements to the nation's railway system, highlighting the need for regulations to replace outdated cars that carry hazardous materials and require them to reduce their speed in residential areas.
This rebranding is a bit like realising that the phrase «high speed rail» had become so toxic, that «north - south railway» is now used by politicians to denote the direction of flow of economic activity HS2 would bring.
The Indian government uses his software to monitor natural disasters, for example, and a Chinese railway company uses it to speed up train design.
The Obama administration will make up to $ 13 billion available for high - speed railroad projects across the nation, which lags far behind the fast railways of Asia and Europe
On 31 March last year — the day before Railtrack took over responsibility for safety on the railways — the chairman of British Rail wrote to MacGregor to say that if it was up to him, ATP would be adopted on new high - speed lines.
In the meantime, the Austrian Federal Railways (OEBB - Infrastruktur AG) became interested and commissioned a design project based on the new construction method for a deer pass over two high speed rail tracks in Carinthia.
This is one of the reasons Erie, Pa. — based GE Transportation inked a deal on last week with China's Ministry of Railways to better learn how to develop high - speed rail projects in the U.S. View a slide show of international high - speed rail lines for a closer look at how these projects have developed around the world
Perhaps the best known is French Railways» TGV (train a grande vitesse), which holds the world speed record of 515 kilometres per hour.
By MICK HAMER Four European railways currently have high - speed trains.
The tip - tracking TOG - TACC machinery acts as a catalyst of microtubule assembly, and it turns out, based on the new results, that TOG - TACC is a very unusual type of catalyst that stabilises its product (the microtubule railway) as well as speeding up its growth.
Their work, published in the November issue of Computational Mechanics, shows that this trapping phenomenon, which is very dependent on train speed, could cause accelerated ballast degradation in railway tracks.
Their work shows that this trapping phenomenon, which is very dependent on train speed, could cause accelerated ballast degradation in railway tracks.
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