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Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)

Each day around 6.5 million people -- more than the London Underground -- ride Tokyo Metro's nine lines, part of a vast transport network serving the capital an...

Tokyo Metro: Asia's oldest subway goes public

Oct 21, 2024 (AFP)

Starting Wednesday, Tokyo Metro stock will be traded in Japan's biggest initial public offering (IPO) in six years. It is expected to raise more than $2 billion...

Austria Greens leave transport pass as legacy ahead of vote

Sep 28, 2024 (AFP)

But some of their popular initiatives will remain, including a pass that allows holders to take public transport throughout the country for 1,095 euros ($1,224)...

Japan plans driverless bullet trains

Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)

East Japan Railway (JR East) will first introduce trains where many of the driver's tasks are automated -- but they will remain in the cab -- on parts of one ro...

First step for Europe's hyperloop vehicles with test launch

Sep 09, 2024 (AFP)

Hovering inside a sleek 420-metre (1,377-foot) white tunnel, a dark and light grey striped pod levitates at the order from the mission control centre, before po...

India's strategic railway bridge closes the gap to Kashmir

Jul 24, 2024 (AFP)

The Chenab Rail Bridge, the highest of its kind in the world, has been hailed as a feat of engineering linking the restive Kashmir valley to the vast Indian pla...

US freight company to pay $310 mn over East Palestine derailment

May 23, 2024 (AFP)

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, were forced to evacuate in February 2023, when a Norfolk Southern train carrying chemicals derailed, covering the area in thi...

Mexico tourist train an environmental 'nightmare,' activists say

May 04, 2024 (AFP)

The Yucatan Peninsula boasts an estimated 2,400 of these caverns and sinkholes, which are known as cenotes and are a major attraction for tourists who swim and ...

Chinese train maker withdraws from Bulgaria tender after EU probe

Mar 26, 2024 (AFP)

As a result of CRRC's withdrawal, the commission "will close its in-depth investigation", it said. Brussels had announced the probe on February 16, with EU inte...

Transport of the future? Europe's longest hyperloop centre opens

Mar 26, 2024 (AFP)

On a disused railway centre near Veendam in the north of the country sits a sleek Y-shaped white tunnel 420 metres (1,380 feet) long made up of 34 interconnecte...

EU announces subsidy probe into Chinese train maker

Feb 16, 2024 (AFP)

Launched against a backdrop of rising trade tensions between China and the 27-nation bloc, the investigation is the first under new EU foreign subsidy rules tha...

Passengers snub 'expensive' London-Paris Eurostar train for plane

Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)

"It's ridiculous to take the plane for such a distance," said Sabia Mokeddem, a French national who has lived in London for more than five years. Mokeddem says ...

French city makes public transport free for residents

Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)

The entire European country of Luxembourg including its capital of the same name scrapped fares in 2020, after Estonia's capital Tallinn introduced the policy i...

Mexico's Maya Train underway, despite environmental concerns

Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hailed his flagship project as a "magnum opus" built in "record time" ahead of the inauguration, during which he boarded o...

Beijing metro collision injures 102 people

Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)

The Chinese capital -- where such incidents are rare -- has been hit by snowstorms in recent days, affecting operating conditions and resulting in transport del...

Rail industry urged to consider safety risks of space weather

Dec 12, 2023 (SPX)

Solar storms can trigger powerful magnetic disturbances on Earth, creating geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) which could potentially interfere with electr...

In Mexico, building a rail rival to the Panama Canal

Nov 16, 2023 (AFP)

The Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes already dreamed of such a crossing for humans and goods in the 16th century, but most plans came to naught and a prior, r...

UK axes key northern leg of costly high-speed railway

Oct 04, 2023 (AFP)

Addressing his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester, Sunak said HS2 would no longer run on high speed rails to the city in northwest England, wi...

Indonesia launches Southeast Asia's first high-speed rail

Oct 02, 2023 (AFP)

With a top speed of 350 kilometres (220 miles) per hour, the bullet train "Whoosh" can get between the capital Jakarta and Bandung in 45 minutes. The 140 km jou...

Indonesia to launch China-funded high-speed rail, first in S.E. Asia

Oct 01, 2023 (AFP)

The Chinese-made bullet train named "Whoosh" is built to take more than 600 people to and from Jakarta and the Javan city of Bandung in 45 minutes and is part o...