Any proposals to introduce High Speed Rail in Australia must consider flood areas in proposed corridors.
High speed train track collapses in China
- From: AP
- March 12, 2012
0A SECTION of a high-speed railway line that had already undergone test runs has collapsed in central China following heavy rain, the latest accident since a crash last northern summer that killed 40 people.
The official Xinhua News Agency did not mention casualties in its report today on the collapse of a 300-metre section of the railway line. It said hundreds of workers were rushing to repair the line between the Yangtze River cities of Wuhan and Yichang.
The railway line is due to open in May.
China has reaffirmed its intention to push ahead with the fast-paced build-up of the high-speed rail system, despite financial difficulties and worries safety may have been compromised in the rush to open new lines.