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WORLD'S STEEPEST FUNICULAR OPENS IN SWITZERLAND
Drunk passengers risk death on railway Jump to media player Network Rail has released video of inebriated people falling on to rail tracks... READ MORE›
HUNTER HARRISON, CSX CEO AND FORMER HEAD OF CP RAIL AND CN RAIL, DIES AT 73
Hunter Harrison, the president CEO of railroad giant CSX Corp., has died, the company announced Saturday... READ MORE›
THE BRAINCHILD OF A NSW MILLIONAIRE, IS THIS THE WORLD'S FIRST SOLAR TRAIN?
Tim Elderton, from the Lithgow Railway Workshop, was tasked with building curved solar panels and a battery system to power the train... READ MORE›
APOLOGY AFTER JAPANESE TRAIN DEPARTS 20 SECONDS EARLY
The Tsukuba Express line takes passengers from Akihabara in eastern Tokyo to Tsukuba in about 45 minutes... READ MORE›
700 CHINA-EUROPE FREIGHT TRAINS TO DEPART XINJIANG IN 2017
Freight train X9091 waits for transportation to Almaty of Kazakhstan, in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Oct 19, 2017... READ MORE›
700 CHINA-EUROPE FREIGHT TRAINS TO DEPART XINJIANG IN 2017[1]
A total of 700 China-Europe freight trains are expected to depart from Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, by the end of 2017, the regional logistic center said Thursday... READ MORE›
CSX CEO APOLOGIZES FOR PROBLEMS, CUSTOMERS DEMAND IMPROVEMENT
Since he took over, Harrison has rapidly closed CSX rail yards, lengthened trains, mothballed locomotives, and slashed overtime pay and hundreds of jobs... READ MORE›
HOW WIND CAN POWER THE WORLD'S MASS TRANSIT
The world's soaring population is prompting a slew of transit innovations wheel-free bullet trains, obstacle-sensing robot cars, 120mph passenger pods... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Locomotive
NETWORK RAIL TO BE STRIPPED OF CONTROL OVER BRITAINS TRAIN TRACKS AS OPERATORS WILL WIN POWER TO IMPROVE SERVICES
Commuters are infuriated by the delays and blame the train companies, which in turn blame Network Rail and have to seek compensation for any delays... READ MORE›
NETWORK RAIL UPGRADE DELAYED BY GOVERNMENT
The government says it will delay or cut back a number of modernisation projects planned for Network Rail... READ MORE›
MINISTER DEFENDS RAIL FARE RISES
In Wales, ticket prices on Arriva Trains Wales services will rise by 2... READ MORE›
FIRST GREAT WESTERN RAIL STAFF TO HOLD SERIES OF STRIKES
The RMT said the strike was being held over threats to jobs services and safety from the introduction of the new Hitachi Intercity trains... READ MORE›
BOY DIES AFTER CLIMBING ON TRAIN
A 15-year-old boy who climbed onto a freight train dies after touching overhead power cables, police say... READ MORE›
BRITAIN'S PRIVATISED RAIL NETWORK MAKES MILLIONS FOR FOREIGN STATE-OWNED TRAIN COMPANIES
Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to make Britain's railways entirely state-owned and run by a citizens' corporation... READ MORE›
ENGINEER LENDS VOICE TO MAIL RAIL TOURS AS SECRET WORLD OPENS TO PUBLIC
The system proved expensive and unreliable, and ran only between 1863 and 1874, with many delays while trains stuck in tunnels were hauled free... READ MORE›
DOZENS DIE IN INDIAN TRAIN DERAILMENT
Fourteen coaches of passenger train roll off track near the northern city of Kanpur injuring around 150 people... READ MORE›
TORNADO LOCOMOTIVE HITS 100MPH ON MAINLINE RAIL NETWORK
Tornado was the first steam locomotive to be built in the UK for almost half a century when it was completed in Darlington in 2008... READ MORE›
CLASSIC LOCOMOTIVES ON DISPLAY AS SCIENCE AND TECH MUSEUM UPDATES RENEWAL PROGRESS
Waubgeshig Rice CBC The 3100, one of the Canada Science and Technology Museum's iconic locomotives... READ MORE›
FRANCE TGV CRASH: CHILDREN ON BOARD DERAILED TRAIN
Several children were on board when a high-speed train derailed during a test run in France, killing 11 people, the rail company SNCF has said... READ MORE›
CP RAIL PROPANE CARS COLLIDE NEAR EDMONTON IN 3RD 'REMOTE CONTROL' ACCIDENT
What's more, CP is in arbitration with its main employee union over expansion plans for the RCLS Remote Control Locomotive System ... READ MORE›
VIRGIN CCTV HAS BLOWN APART CORBYN'S SUGGESTION HE COULDN'T GET A SEAT ON 'PACKED' TRAIN
Jeremy Corbyn walked past empty seats before sitting on the ground for a video attacking Britain's ram-packed rail services, Virgin Trains has confirmed... READ MORE›
CANADIAN TOWN EVACUATED AFTER TRAIN CARRYING DANGEROUS GOODS CATCHES FIRE
CN spokesman Jim Feeny said the fire is coming from petroleum distillate, which spilled from two of the derailed cars... READ MORE›
IRISH RAIL FORCED TO PULL TRAIN FROM SERVICE AFTER DRUNKEN STUDENTS 'VOMITED THROUGHOUT'
During an outing on Monday, hundreds of members from two societies at Dublin City University boarded a train specifically chartered for them heading to Galway City... READ MORE›
DISRUPTED PARIS RAIL SERVICE TO GET BACK ON TRACK WEDNESDAY
All trains departing for the Atlantic will once again resume services at Montparnasse station tomorrow, read an SNCF statement... READ MORE›
HEAVIER BOXING DAY TRAFFIC EXPECTED AS HALF OF TRAIN OPERATORS ARE RUNNING NO SERVICESA
Drivers will be making 28m separate Christmas getaway car journeys on major roads this year according to the RAC... READ MORE›
2 DEAD AFTER CAR COLLIDES WITH VIA TRAIN NEAR LONDON, ONT.
Two women from Strathroy-Caradoc, Ont. died during a collision between a car and a Via train Monday, southwest of London... READ MORE›
VIA RAIL STRIKE POSSIBLE MONDAY
Via Rail passenger trains such as this one stopped in Kitchener, Ont... READ MORE›
THE GHAN RUNS ONE OF WORLD'S LONGEST EVER TRAINS
The extension will make the service Australia's longest passenger train... READ MORE›
NEW YORK TRAINS COLLIDE, INJURING NEARLY THREE DOZEN
The collision, of a maintenance train and a commuter train as they travelled eastbound, sheared chunks off the commuter train cars... READ MORE›
OIL TRAIN DERAILS, EXPLODES IN OREGON
Union Pacific said that 11 rail cars from a 96-car train carrying Bakken crude oil derailed just west of Mosier, Oregon... READ MORE›
OVERLOADED TRAIN DERAILS IN CAMEROON, KILLING AT LEAST 53
A portion of the road linking the capital Yaounde to Douala had collapsed, so the 30-year-old rail lines were overtaxed, the rail officials said... READ MORE›
TRAIN COLLISION IN FLORIDA INJURES 2
Two crew members were evaluated for injuries at the scene, but declined to be taken to the hospital, according to local media reports... READ MORE›
THREE KILLED WHEN FREIGHT TRAIN HITS BUS APPARENTLY STUCK ON BILOXI CROSSING
The bus was apparently stopped on the tracks when the 52-car train, pulled by three locomotives, slammed into it, said Biloxi Police Chief John Miller... READ MORE›
POLAND BENEFITS FROM RAIL CARGO CONNECTION
In Lodz, a stop along the Chengdu-Europe railway service, the first cargo trains arrived three-and-a-half years ago... READ MORE›
CHINA, EUROPE JOIN HANDS TO SPEED UP RAIL CARGO TRANSIT
Thanks to the world's largest train container inspection system, the transit and customs clearance time of China Railway Express CRE... READ MORE›
KENYA'S NEW RAILWAY FERRIES 7,000 CUSTOMERS A WEEK AFTER LAUNCH
In Mombasa, the access road is in its completion phase and thus is expected to provide a fluid road connection to the Miritini Station from Mombasa City... READ MORE›
SECRET TUBE TO WHISK TOURISTS BENEATH LONDON IN BRITAIN'S MOST INCREDIBLE RAIL JOURNEY
Tickets are already selling fast for the railway experience, travelling on the 11-kilometer long secret rail network, that criss-crossed London's more famous Underground Rail network... READ MORE›