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Report lays out plans to reorganize debt-plagued French rail system

Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)

A report issued this week calls for reorganizing France's state-owned SNCF railway and debt-plagued rail system owner RFF under new public entities. The recomme...

China ex-railways minister charged with graft: media

Apr 10, 2013 (AFP)

Prosecutors Wednesday charged China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun with bribery and abuse of power, state media said, after scandals involving hundreds o...

N.D. Sen. Hoeven gets tough on rail safety

Apr 10, 2013 (UPI)

The Department of Transportation needs new standards for rail cars carrying crude oil, and more action to prevent derailments, North Dakota's Sen. Hoeven said. ...

North Dakota's Hoeven calls for rail safety funding

Apr 04, 2013 (UPI)

With U.S. railways carrying more crude oil, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., says more funding is needed for improved rail inspections. "There is an increased need for...

Chinese railway in Ethiopia to replace historic French line

Mar 10, 2013 (AFP)

Camels rather than locomotives lumber over the railway tracks in this remote desert, famously traversed by storied French adventurers Arthur Rimbaud and Henry d...

China to abolish rail ministry in anti-graft shakeup

Mar 10, 2013 (AFP)

China is to effectively abolish its scandal-plagued railways ministry as part of a sweep of government reforms aimed at tackling inefficiency and corruption, a ...

U.S. railway plans to test LNG as fuel

Mar 08, 2013 (UPI)

BNSF, the largest railroad in the United States, plans to test running its locomotives on liquefied natural gas. The railroad, with headquarters in Fort Worth, ...

Italy commits to Alps rail tunnel funding

Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)

Italy this week signed off on $850 million for the second phase of a planned Alpine railway tunnel, seen as a key pillar of European transportation policy. The ...

All aboard as millions race home for China's biggest holiday

Feb 08, 2013 (AFP)

Pushing through scores of passengers in the aisle of a cramped train at Beijing West station, Chen Guolan could barely contain her excitement at joining the wor...

Landslide derails Swiss passenger train, no injuries

Feb 02, 2013 (AFP)

A Swiss passenger train derailed on Saturday when it rammed into landslide debris blocking the tracks, the national SBB rail service said, adding that no one wa...

Scientists' new trains 'can prevent terror attack deaths'

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

British researchers said Wednesday they have developed train carriages that can reduce deaths and injuries in terror attacks by using plastic-coated windows and...

China eyes $104 bn rail spending in 2013: state media

Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)

China will sharply increase planned railway investment in 2013 to more than $100 billion, state media cited the railways minister as saying Thursday, as part of...

China train derails in test run, one dead: state media

Jan 08, 2013 (AFP)

A subway train derailed Tuesday in a test run on a new line in southwestern China, killing one driver and injuring another, state media reported. The first carr...

World's longest bullet train service launched in China

Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)

China launched services Wednesday on the world's longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country's rapid and -- sometimes troubled -- super-f...

China shows off world's longest high-speed rail route

Dec 22, 2012 (AFP)

China on Saturday showed off the final link of the world's longest high-speed rail route set to begin whisking passengers from Beijing to Guangzhou next week in...

China's longest high-speed railway to open Dec. 26: report

Dec 15, 2012 (AFP)

The world's longest high-speed rail route, running from the Chinese capital Beijing to Guangzhou in the south, will open for business on December 26, state medi...

Chemicals freight train falls off broken US bridge

Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)

A section of a freight train carrying toxic chemicals fell into a creek in New Jersey on Friday when a bridge collapsed, but there was no serious spill, officia...

Japan shows 310 mph bullet train prototype

Nov 29, 2012 (UPI)

Japanese transport officials have unveiled the prototype of their new maglev train they say will be capable of speeds up to 310 miles per hour. The Central Japa...

Work to start on Laos-China railway in 2013: media

Nov 16, 2012 (AFP)

Construction of a $7 billion train link between Laos and China will go ahead next year after a Chinese bank threw a financial lifeline to the stalled project, s...

Key Swiss rail route closed after landslide

Nov 14, 2012 (AFP)

Switzerland's main north-south rail link will stay closed for days after a landslide on Wednesday near the site of a similar incident in June, national train op...