Texas Central Railway

Texas Central Railway

Overview
Type	High-speed rail
Status	Planned
Locale	Texas
Termini	Houston Dallas
Stations	2
Services	1
Operation
Opening	2020^[1]
Owner	Lone Star High-Speed Railway
Operator(s)	Lone Star High-Speed Railway
Rolling stock	Shinkansen
Technical
Operating speed	205 mph

The Texas Central Railway is a planned high-speed rail line with direct service from Houston to Dallas/Fort Worth. The owner/operator has indicated that the line could be open by 2020^[1] and it would therefore become one of the first high-speed rail lines in North America.

A proposed second phase of the project would link Austin and San Antonio along the I-35 corridor, although no timescale has been given.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/08-16-12-full-speed-ahead-for-205-mph-bullet-train-between-houston-and-dallas-2020-set-as-target-date/

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High-speed rail in the United States

Acela Express California High-Speed Rail Chicago Hub Network Florida High Speed Corridor Gateway Project Keystone Corridor New York high-speed rail Northern New England Corridor Ohio Hub Pacific Northwest Corridor South Central Corridor Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor Texas Central Railway

High-speed rail

Part of Rail transport

Technologies

High-speed trains
(category)

300 km/h (186 mph) or more	AGV AVE Class 100, 102, 103 CRH 2C, 3C, 380A, 380B, 380C, 380D ETR 500 Eurostar TGV Eurostar Velaro ETR 1000 ICE 3 KTX-I, II (Sancheon) Oaris Shinkansen Series 500, N700, E5, E6, H5, L0 AVRIL TGV Sud-Est (refurbished), Atlantique, Réseau, Duplex, POS, 2N2 Thalys PBA, PBKA THSR 700T Transrapid Shanghai Maglev Train Velaro Bombardier Zefiro

250–299 km/h (155–186 mph)	China Railways CRH 1A, 1B, 1E, 2A, 2B, 2E New Pendolino ICE 1, 2 RENFE Class 120, 121, 130 Sapsan Shinkansen Series 200, 300, 700, 800, E2, E3, E7, W7 TCDD HT65000 TGV Sud-Est (original), La Poste V250 Zefiro 250

200–249 km/h (124–155 mph)	Acela Express Adelante APT AVE Class 101/Euromed China Railways CRH6 ER200 Euromed GMB Class 71 (Flytoget) IC4 InterCity 125, 225 ICE T, TD ICx ICN Javelin NSB Class 73 NSB Class 74 WESTbahn Pendolino Railjet Regina Shinkansen series 0, 100, 400, E1, E4 SBB RABDe 502 IC 2000 SJ 2000 SJ X40 Z-TER (Z 21500) Sokol Super Express Class 800, Class 801 Talgo XXI Voyager/Meridian X3

Experimental and prototype high-speed trains (category)

High-speed railway line
(category)

List of high-speed rail lines

By country

planned networks in italics

Africa	Morocco

Americas	Argentina Brazil Canada Mexico United States CA OH NJ NY TX, TX TCR Southeast Northeast New England Northwest

Asia	China Malaysia and Singapore India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Kazakhstan South Korea Philippines Saudi Arabia Russia Taiwan Turkey Uzbekistan Vietnam

Europe	Austria Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Italy Latvia Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom

Oceania	Australia

Planned high-speed rail by country

Texas Central Railway

See Also

References

External Links