High Speed Rail Canada - TGV - Train à grande vitesse au Canada

High Speed Rail Canada is the number one source for Canadian high-speed rail studies past and present. They are available to everyone at no charge. We do it as part of our mandate to educate Canadians about high-speed rail. Recently we updated the Calgary-Edmonton Page on our website. We have included all 6 Alberta based studies.  It is encourage news that Prairie Link, a consortium of EllisDon and AECOM ,  is proposing to build a high-speed rail line between Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton.  High-Speed Rail Calgary-Edmonton

  We want to wish all supporters of  high-speed rail in Canada have a fantastic holiday season. We know it is a difficult time with Covid-19 but we will get out of this and move forward safely in 2022. While the state of passenger rail in Canada is bleak regarding high-speed trains, we will continue to push for Canada to play catch up to the rest of the world.   VIA Rail Canada's proposed $4 billion dollar HFR plan and  the new Siemens trainsets cannot even obtain the low end of high speed rail speeds of 250km. These types of decisions set Canada back decades. Joyeuses fêtes/ Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones.

    Full credit to City Nerd Youtube Channel for this comparative analysis video. It wastes no time reviewing the VIA Rail Canada half-baked plan for higher speed trains. It compares true high speed rail with car and plane travel.  This video drills down into the details of an example trip between Toronto and Montreal, following the journeys of three hypothetical travelers on their way from Greater Toronto (including Hamilton and Oshawa, by the way!) to Bell Centre in downtown Montreal. Along the way, and we compare their journeys step by step, and look more broadly at the argument for high speed rail in Canada by comparing to other successful HSR city pairs like Milan-Rome, Madrid-Barcelona, and Paris-Bordeaux, and praising Canada's ahead-of-the-curve (well, for North America) transit connections. Feel free to subscribe to his videos.

High Speed Rail Canada has added another film of the legendary CN UAC TurboTrain to their Youtube Channel . Released originally by the Surface Transportation Systems of Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft in 1968. It includes excellent footage of the TurboTrain demonstration runs.  From the original Sikorsky Aircraft promo material released with the film: "A sleek, new lightweight passenger train, the Turbo-Train, enters service in 1968 in the United States and Canada.  The TurboTrain is lighter, faster, quieter, smoother and more reliable than conventional trains -and cheaper to run. The TurboTrain, conceived on aerodynamic principles, and powered by aircraft-type gas turbine engines, was designed by United Aircraft Corporation.  It is being developed and marketed by Surface Transportation Systems, Sikorsky Aircraft Division. The TurboTrain is a modern, streamlined, high-speed intercity passenger train designed by aerospace engineers and based on the principles of fli

  High Speed Rail Canada has updated their links pages that  features high speed rail manufacturers and countries around the world with high speed rail. It includes Canada's four proposed high speed rail routes. The page also has links to companies that sell high speed rail tickets around the world for those who want to travel to other countries to ride high speed trains (TGV). Paul Langan, founder High Speed Rail Canada states, " I wish all Canadians had a chance to visit countries where high speed trains run so they can see what a modern passenger system in Canada could look like. This links page will take you to sites around the world to see high speed trains in operation". Visit: https://www.highspeedrailcanada.com/p/links.html

Fantastic news out of Alberta! The companies EllisDon and AECOM are proposing a high speed rail line between Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton. Here is their press release. We will be watching this closely. Edmonton, AB, July 8, 2021—EllisDon, a world-leading construction services and infrastructure development company, announced today that they have formed a partnership to advance the development of high-speed rail connecting Edmonton, Red Deer, and Calgary in Alberta, Canada. EllisDon and its team took the initiative to propose the project within the Government of Alberta’s Unsolicited Proposal Guidelines and Framework. "The notion of high-speed rail — a proven technology around the world — connecting Edmonton, Red Deer, and Calgary in Alberta is not new, but we believe that its time has come. We have built a team with both the capacity and faith in the future of our province to advance it in a meaningful way for Albertans," said Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson, Director with EllisDon