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You should do another round up of those projects from 2009 - it will be interesting to see the successes and failures in a single article.
by njh on Sat Jun 16th, 2012 at 06:31:03 PM EST
By success/failure, do you mean whether projects went ahead or not? I can give a quick run-down in a comment:

Iberian Peninsula:

  • The projects in Portugal were killed with the legal argument that the PPP awarding wasn't proper (but austerity and the new government1s ideological stance probably counted, too).
  • The lines in-construction in Galicia and between Madrid and Valencia opened on schedule, construction continues on the others in the south and north.
  • Of the line in-construction north of Barcelona, the cross-border section was put in service after all (with a link to the old line), but the rest suffered yet another delay (this time due to tendering complications for works around stations in Barcelona proper) and is now slated for Q3/2013.
  • Of the projects shown as planned on my 2009 map, the one definitely going ahead despite austerity is the Madric-Galicia connection.

France:
  • LGV Rhin-Rhône, in construction in 2009, opened on schedule.
  • All of the projects shown on the 2009 map as about to be tendered have been tendered and started or are about to start construction.
  • The projects from Bordeaux to the Spanish border resp. Toulouse are chugging ahead, with the government having selected a route and now awaiting public consultation.

Austria:
  • Two of the main projects shown (Vienna-St. Pölten, Unterinntalbahn) are on schedule for their opening in December this year. (Sommetime I should post a photo diary series on the old Vienna-St. Pölten line.)
  • On the third project, the Koralm line, the eastern section was partially opened on schedule in December 2010, and the boring of the Koralm Tunnel started on schedule in May 2010. Two years later the drilled & blasted section at the east end was holed through, work is on-going at the western end. The full line is now slated for 2023 only.
  • A project shown in 2009 as uncertain plan, the Semmering Base Tunnel, started construction just a few weeks ago, but is now scheduled to be finished in 2024 only.

Germany:
  • The lines shown as in-construction are all on schedule for the planned openings indicated in 2009.
  • Of the lines shown as planned lines in 2009, only Stuttgart-Ulm progressed to the start of construction (a month or two ago), while the others are practically dead for now.

Others:
  • Sweden's Botniabanan is now in service.
  • Milan-Brescia (minus an already finished section) in Italy started construction a few weeks ago.
  • In Switzerland, due to good progress of works, the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel was brought forward a year to 2016 (they are niow constructing track inside the tunnel from both directions). The opening of the Ceneri base Tunnel was delayed a year to 2019, however (though I wouldn't be surprised to see that brought forward again after tunnel boring finished, too).

Turkey:
  • The line to Konya opened with some delay in August last year.
  • The lines to Istanbul and Sivas, in-construction in 2009 already, are now to be completed by 2014 resp. 2015.
  • Of the lines shown as planned, the shorter branch to Bursa was awarded at the end of last year (to be completed by 2015) and the (Ankara-)Polatli-Afyon(-Izmir) section was tendered.


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Jun 17th, 2012 at 10:59:26 AM EST
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Sounds like a reasonably positive status report - a lot of construction is on time or close.

Wind power
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 05:01:34 AM EST
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the (Ankara-)Polatli-Afyon(-Izmir) section was tendered

...and just a week ago, awarded:

Ankara - Izmir high speed line contract signed - Railway Gazette

TURKEY: A contract for the construction of the first stage of a planned Ankara - Izmir line suitable for 250 km/h running was signed by Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim and a consortium of Sigma, Burkay, Makimsan and YDA on June 11.


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Jun 19th, 2012 at 05:06:46 AM EST
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