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Back on track: Europe's fading night trains win reprieve

Aug 03, 2020 (AFP)

With passengers cradled to sleep by the clank of the wheels on the rails, the network of night trains that spanned the continent inspired travelogues, thrillers...

Hungary classifies details of China-backed rail project

May 19, 2020 (AFP)

The high-speed line will upgrade an existing link between the Hungarian and Serbian capitals, and was of "overriding public interest," according to the text of ...

Hungary signs China-backed Budapest-Belgrade rail project

Apr 24, 2020 (AFP)

"An important agreement was reached today: the construction work can begin with the signing of the loan agreement for the Budapest-Belgrade railway line," said ...

One dead, 127 hurt in China passenger train derailment

Mar 30, 2020 (AFP)

The accident happened around midday in a rural part of Hunan province and came after recent heavy rains triggered landslides in the area, a statement said. One ...

Chinese passenger train derailed by landslide debris

Mar 30, 2020 (AFP)

The accident happened around midday in a rural part of Hunan province and came after recent heavy rains triggered landslides in the area, the state-run railway ...

India's Top Tech Institute to Take Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop Pod' Forward with Young Intl. Engineers

Mar 19, 2020 (Sputnik)

For the first time, the Hyperloop Pod contest, kick-started by Elon Musk in 2015, is set to be hosted in India at the Chennai campus of the Indian Institute of ...

Nigeria says Chinese-built rail project 'delayed' by coronavirus

Mar 06, 2020 (AFP)

The 150-kilometre (90-mile) railway line linking economic hub Lagos to the city of Ibadan is being built by the state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction...

After backing HS2 rail, Johnson mulls Heathrow runway

Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)

Prime Minister Johnson, who wants big infrastructure projects to help drive Britain's post-Brexit economy, said earlier this month that the country would shortl...

UK approves high-speed railway despite soaring cost

Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)

Johnson said the entire HS2 line linking London to central and northern England would go ahead, rejecting criticism of its ballooning price tag and impact on th...

High hopes as Austria's new night train sets off for Brussels

Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)

The carriages of the "OBB Nightjet" pulled out of Vienna's main station punctually at 8:38 pm to the strains of a live band playing the EU anthem "Ode to Joy", ...

Germany vows 62 billion-euro injection into railways

Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)

"We've just signed the biggest programme of modernisation ever in Germany," said Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer, adding that "this is the decade for railway...

Musk sees people-moving Las Vegas tunnel opening in 2020

Dec 28, 2019 (AFP)

The people-moving tunnel is being built by The Boring Company, one of several future-oriented enterprises founded by Musk, along with the Tesla electric-car com...

China consortium wins Colombian capital metro contract

Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)

APCA Transmimetro, which includes China Harbour Engineering and Xi'An Metro as well as Spanish and Brazilian subcontractors, will build and operate the line und...

Kazakhstan to probe stalled Chinese rail project

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

Kazakhstan's economy ministry said in April that construction of a light railway network set to ease congestion in the capital Nur-Sultan had ceased after China...

Deutsche Bahn fights heatwaves with white rails

Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)

Experiments this summer succeeded in keeping the rails cooler, the firm said in a statement, meaning DB will now extend them to a kilometre-long stretch on the ...

KLM to replace Brussels flight with train to cut emissions

Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)

In a bid to cut its environmental impact, KLM will from March 2020 reduce from five to four the number of flights from Amsterdam to Brussels. Instead, KLM will ...

France climbs aboard hydrogen train revolution

Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)

Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen. Germany was the first country to roll out th...

Malaysia resumes $10-bn China-backed rail project

Jul 25, 2019 (AFP)

The 640-kilometre (400-mile) line will link northeast Malaysia, near the Thai border, to the country's main port on the busy Strait of Malacca in the west, form...

Malaysia revived China-backed railway to avoid $5 bn penalty: PM

Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)

Last week Malaysia and China agreed to push ahead with the railway at a 30-percent lower cost, lifting a suspension slapped on the project when a corruption-pla...

CRRC, the Chinese rail juggernaut Europe is afraid of

Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)

- Beijing behemoth - The China Railroad Rolling Stock Corporation manufactures wagons and locomotives for the Chinese railway network. It was formed following a...