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Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains

Sep 30, 2023 (AFP)

Night trains are starting to make a comeback in Europe thanks to their low-carbon footprint and after years of neglect, operators are now investing heavily to r...

Work begins on Iraq-Iran rail link

Sep 02, 2023 (AFP)

The "Basra-Chalamja connection project" will link the major port city of Basra in southern Iraq to Iran's vast railway network through the Chalamja border cross...

Back on track: Europe's night trains make bumpy comeback

Jul 30, 2023 (AFP)

Operators admit that the trains are outdated -- with passengers facing the occasional delays, technical problems or malfunctioning toilets -- while companies co...

French police and protesters clash over Italy train project

Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)

Some 4,000 protesters, according to organisers, and 3,000, according to police, turned out close to the village of Saint Remy-de-Maurienne in southeastern Franc...

Germany hopes to help climate with discount travel card

May 01, 2023 (AFP)

Touting the monthly pass as a "revolution", policymakers hope it will bring some relief for consumers amid soaring inflation, and encourage people to favour mas...

Thailand's China-built high-speed rail, on track but delayed

Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)

Concrete piers supporting the new elevated track tower over bright green rice paddies, cutting a strip through a quiet corner of Thailand's poor, rural northeas...

Argonne, Progress Rail, test low-carbon fuels on the path to decarbonizing the rail industry

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are two types of biofuels, which are produced from organic materials including plants, agricultural waste and wet waste. While th...

Tanzania signs $2.2bln railway deal with China

Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)

The 2,561-kilometre (1,600-mile) line will link the Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam to Mwanza on Lake Victoria, with eventual spurs to Burundi, Democratic Re...

A high-tech chassis for the train of the future

Sep 28, 2022 (SPX)

According to project leader Andreas Heckmann of the DLR Institute of System Dynamics and Control, this approach offers significant and wide-ranging advantages: ...

Take the train! French rail boss slams PSG after short-haul hop

Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)

"From Paris to Nantes with @qatarairways!" the Qatar-owned side tweeted as it showed Kylian Mbappe and other PSG stars boarding a jet for Nantes, just 380 kilom...

Cheap German transport ticket slashes emissions: survey

Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)

The ticket, valid nationwide on buses, subways and regional trains for just nine euros (dollars) a month, was introduced in June as part of an inflation-busting...

Mexico resumes building president's tourist train

Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)

A judge indefinitely suspended construction of part of the Mayan Train in the Yucatan peninsula in late May. The ruling followed a legal challenge brought by op...

Train driver killed in China high-speed rail crash

Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)

The train, which was en route to Guangdong province, derailed after running into debris that had fallen onto the tracks near a tunnel, official broadcaster CCTV...

Mexico president's tourist train suffers new legal blow

May 30, 2022 (AFP)

The ruling follows a legal challenge brought by opponents, including scuba divers, who are concerned about the impact of the Mayan Train on wildlife, caves and ...

Mexican tourist train raises fears for subterranean treasures

May 03, 2022 (AFP)

The rail link under construction between popular Caribbean beach resorts and archeological ruins is at the center of a legal battle between authorities and acti...

Judge halts work on Mexico president's contentious tourist train

Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)

The Mayan Train, a roughly 1,500-kilometer (950 mile) rail loop linking popular Caribbean beach resorts and archeological ruins, has met with opposition from en...

Argonne researcher tests new approach to lighten the carbon footprint of locomotives

Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)

Essam El-Hannouny, a principal mechanical engineer at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, won a Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF...

Exploring how the world's first bullet train captivated the globe

Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)

But in an era of luxury jet travel and a race to be the first country to land on the moon, how did a train capture the imaginations of people across the globe? ...

Storm damage forces Belgium-Netherlands rail cancellations

Feb 19, 2022 (AFP)

A spokesman for Thalys, which links Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne, told AFP "the whole Dutch network" handling high-speed trains was affected, thus imp...

Laos opens scenic railway built on a mountain of Chinese debt

Dec 19, 2021 (AFP)

The line will connect the capital Vientiane with the southern Chinese city of Kunming, and there are grand plans for a high-speed rail network running to Singap...