A high-speed rail network from the Baltics to Central Europe is one step closer
For the development of high-speed rail in the ‘Three Seas Region’ between the Baltic Sea in the North, the Black Sea in central Europe and the Adriatic Sea, Poland’s Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), Rail Baltica and Czech railway manager Správa železnic will cooperate to make an interconnected high-speed rail network a reality. Additionally, CPK and Ukrainian Railways signed a cooperation agreement with the intention to realise a high-speed rail link from Poland to Ukraine.
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As adding to redundancy, and to quality of infrastructure within hemisphere, yes, central Europe railways – from Adriatic, to Baltic Seas,etc.,- should be awarded high priority!
(With separate corridors, high speed separated from cargo, heavy duty, interest of both client categories are met with, etc.)
Devastating bottlenecks, as within current TEN-T, now decisively have to be outed!
The proposed HSR tracks would allow several night train connections, such as Riga to Berlin/Prague or Warsaw to London/Paris/Frankfurt and Warsaw to the Adriatic, and speed up existing ones. These are completely disregarded in the report, commissioned by the airport entity CPK, which may explain that neglect.
Night trains may also serve as a feeder to airports, for long-distance flights or for shorter-distance flights to smaller destinations that do not warrant hight-speed rail connections.