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Mayan Train, the president's pet project exposing Mexico's cracks

Dec 15, 2021 (AFP)

"The train will no longer come through here," rejoiced Guadalupe Caceres, 64, at news that the original route was being modified and would no longer pass throug...

Vienna-Paris night train is reborn, empty

Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)

With a resurgence of Covid-19 gripping Europe, there were no paying passengers for the maiden voyage of the reborn night train linking Paris and Vienna. A retur...

'Game changer': Laos opens Chinese-built railway line

Dec 03, 2021 (AFP)

The 414-kilometre (260-mile) route took five years to construct under China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative. Laos President Thongloun Sisoulith heral...

UK rail sector on track to diesel-free trains

Nov 22, 2021 (AFP)

According to the latest government data, about 29 percent of the UK train fleet still runs on diesel and freight trains run almost entirely on it. On Thursday, ...

Motorbike-clogged Hanoi rolls out first urban railway

Nov 06, 2021 (AFP)

After years of delays and a near-doubling of construction costs, a train eased out of Cat Linh station, close to the centre of the city, to begin its 13-kilomet...

Germany unveils first self-driving train

Oct 11, 2021 (AFP)

Four such trains will join the northern city's S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructu...

Montenegro starts paying off $1 billion Chinese road loan

Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)

Montenegro took out the $944 million loan in 2014 as part of a plan to build a highway from the Adriatic port of Bar north to the border with Serbia. It was one...

The future on rails

Jun 24, 2021 (SPX)

The spotlight is on rail vehicle technology, rail infrastructure and rail operations in this project, with a focus on synergy potential and on digital transform...

Train kills nine railway workers in northwest China

Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)

About 50 workers were doing maintenance on a closed section of a line in Jinchang city when some of them walked onto an open track as the train approached, acco...

All aboard the night train: Paris-Nice sleeper returns

May 21, 2021 (AFP)

Prime Minister Jean Castex was among the passengers rocked to sleep as the resurrected Paris-Nice express rattled across the country on a 12-hour journey to the...

S.Africa's rail stations in ruins after Covid lockdown plunder

Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)

In the strictest months of confinement last year, looters went to work on unguarded stations and railway infrastructure, making off with almost anything that co...

In Nigeria, new Chinese-built train takes the strain

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

But the fledgling service is developing a fanclub among travellers exhausted by the country's notoriously choked, chaotic and dangerous roads. The $1.6-billion ...

Paris metro operator sued over air pollution

Mar 23, 2021 (AFP)

The Respire ("Breathe") group said it filed its suit in Paris on Monday after its own analyses at several stations, as well as pollution readings by the state-o...

Future technologies for rail transport

Mar 23, 2021 (DLR)

DLR is developing the necessary communication and navigation techniques with its cooperation partners to allow for such new approaches. The test journeys were c...

US transit systems seek light at end of pandemic tunnel

Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)

Ridership in the US capital's Metro system in December was down 85.5 percent compared with a year earlier. And the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authorit...

Germany steams ahead with new hydrogen-powered train

Nov 23, 2020 (AFP)

Developed with German industrial giant Siemens, Deutsche Bahn said it will build a newly developed train and a "gas station" for 2024 that will for the first ti...

Satellites to track trains and promote rail safety

Nov 12, 2020 (ESA)

The project could see satellite technology become a standard way to run trains across the whole of Europe. The Italian national railway company, Gruppo FS Itali...

Virgin's Hyperloop carries passengers for the first time

Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)

The Hyperloop is intended to carry passengers in small pods through a vacuum tube, with proponents arguing it could revolutionize high-speed travel. Virgin says...

Pakistan opens first metro line after years of delays

Oct 26, 2020 (AFP)

Stretching 27 kilometres and dotted with more than two dozen stations, the Chinese-backed "Orange Line" will cut travel time across the perennially congested ci...

Amazon railroad plan unites unlikely allies in opposition

Sep 03, 2020 (AFP)

Biding his time inside his big rig as he sat at a roadblock outside the town of Novo Progresso, in northern Brazil, Sorresino appeared to have every reason to r...