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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...

China's ex-railways minister expelled from party

Nov 04, 2012 (AFP)

China's ruling Communist Party formally expelled former railways minister Liu Zhijun on Sunday, paving the way for his trial over alleged bribe-taking involving...

France seeks to streamline railways

Nov 02, 2012 (UPI)

France's debt-laden and inefficient railway system would be in for a major structural overhaul under proposals released by the Ministry of Transport this week. ...

India tests train collision system

Oct 16, 2012 (UPI)

India Tuesday successfully tested a new technology meant to avoid train collision accidents that kill hundreds each year in the country, local media reported. T...

China tests high-speed rail line

Oct 08, 2012 (UPI)

China says it completed a test run of the world's first alpine high-speed rail line running through the country's three northeastern provinces. A test train dep...

India in talks to buy first bullet trains: report

Oct 03, 2012 (AFP)

India is in talks to buy its first bullet trains for the nation's creaking and accident-prone network, but the new fleet will run at only a fraction of its top ...

Canadian National Railway tests natural gas locomotives

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

Canadian National Railway is testing two diesel-electric locomotives retrofitted to run on cheaper and less polluting natural gas, the transportation giant anno...

Apple to meet Swiss rail firm over clock dispute

Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)

Swiss national train operator SBB said Friday it is to meet Apple representatives after the tech giant used without agreement its famous clock design on a new a...

China approves new railway projects: report

Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)

China has approved 25 new urban railway projects, state media said Thursday, in a sign the government is ramping up infrastructure spending to boost the country...

Dozens hurt as Chinese trains collide

Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)

Two Chinese passenger trains collided Thursday leaving dozens of people injured, the official Xinhua news agency reported, in the latest accident to hit the cou...

China's fast rail plagued by safety hazards: report

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

Multiple high-speed railway lines in operation or under construction in China have "grave" quality problems, a state newspaper said Thursday, a year after a dea...

China to export high-speed train parts to Europe

Aug 08, 2012 (AFP)

A Chinese train maker said Wednesday it will sell components to German engineering giant Siemens, in what will be the first time Chinese high-speed train parts ...

Vale plays down fears Amazon rail project will harm tribe

Jul 27, 2012 (AFP)

Mining giant Vale on Friday played down fears that its planned expansion of a railway line in the Brazilian Amazon will harm the already vulnerable Awa tribe. S...

Ethiopia to build new railway to Djibouti port

Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)

Ethiopia has forged two deals with Turkish and Chinese companies to build a railway connecting the landlocked country to Djibouti, the Ethiopian Railway Corpora...

Using DLR technology to prevent rail accidents

May 31, 2012 (SPX)

Whether on high-speed lines or regional services, the consequences of a train collision are often devastating. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deuts...

China rail chief faces punishment for graft: media

May 28, 2012 (AFP)

China's former railways minister will face prosecution for alleged corruption, state media said Monday, following reports he took bribes of more than 800 millio...

High-speed rail still a dream in U.S.

May 22, 2012 (UPI)

The first thing you hear is a charge -- a high-pitched, electronic whine and within minutes the whirring settles into a roar as the speeding train whizzes along...

China train maker wins orders despite crash

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

China's CSR Corp, whose parent made the trains involved in a deadly crash last year, said Tuesday it had won 3.3 billion yuan ($524 million) in orders that incl...

Building lightweight trains

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

The less trains weigh, the more economical they are to run. A new material capable of withstanding even extreme stresses has now been developed. It is suitable ...

Calif. bullet train project under review

Mar 29, 2012 (UPI)

Proponents of a bullet train in California say they are exploring ways to relax environmental review procedures on the high-speed rail project Environmental gro...