The Taiwan High Speed rail link project is one of the largest privately funded transport schemes to date, carrying express trains capable of travelling at up to 300 km/h (186 mph) travel from Taipei City to Kaohsiung City in roughly 90 minutes as opposed to 4.5 hours by conventional rail.

Currie & Brown was appointed to carry out cost management, signalling, design, RAMS, scheduling and quality assurance services by Taiwan Shinkansen Corporation (the contractor for the Core System) and the Taiwan Shinkansen Trackwork JV (Permanent Way contractor).

TSC and TSTJV are both consortiums of seven Japanese companies (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corp., Marubeni Corp, and Sumitomo Corp.)

The total value of the 2 contracts is approximately USD 15 billion and the length of the line is 345km, along the west coast of Taiwan from the capital Taipei in the north to the port of Kaohsiung in the south. First conceived in the late 1980s this project came to completion in the summer of 2006.