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Rail transport

November 2024

  • Front of a train at a platform with daylight filtering in through glass roof above.

    Watchdog rules Eurostar ads on social media for £39 seats were misleading

    Advertising Standards Authority censures posts on Instagram and Facebook for trips from London to Amsterdam and Brussels

October 2024

  • Aerial shot of blue tram with one end inside building with people around including emergency workers on street

    Tram derails and crashes into shop in central Oslo

    At least four people injured including the driver in ‘surreal’ incident that caused panic in Norwegian capital

September 2024

  • A sleek white bullet train passes in front of snow-capped Mount Fuji, against a deep blue sky

    Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country

    Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a new economic and democratic power
  • a car blocking a bridge with two people standing by

    White House urges Ohio residents near chemical leak to heed calls to evacuate

    Toxic leak of styrene from railcar can cause respiratory issues and potentially can lead to organ damage
  • People surround two passenger trains which collided in Egypt's Nile delta city of Zagazig.

    At least three dead as two passenger trains collide in Egypt’s Nile delta

    More than 40 others were injured in crash in the city of Zagazig, according to the country’s health ministry

August 2024

  • Steel framing inside the tunnel before casting the cement.

    Like ‘using Lego blocks’: record-breaking tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany takes shape

  • CN Rail freight depot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Union dispute shuts down Canadian freight rail amid fears for US trade

July 2024

  • Workers in orange hi-vis clothing and gendarmes gathered at the edge of a railway line

    Far left behind rail sabotage before Olympics, French minister suggests

    Gérald Darmanin says activists may have been encouraged to carry out arson attacks that caused disruption
  • Passengers faced disruption at Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris on Friday.

    Who launched attack on the French rail network – and why?

    Arsonists used crude methods but disruption to opening of the Olympic Games in Paris was severe

    • French rail network hit by arson attacks before Olympics opening ceremony

    • Windows global IT outage: what we know so far

    • Germany to close key rail corridor for months to tackle ailing train network

June 2024

  • Emergency personnel at work near to a crashed bus by a railway line outside Nove Zamky, Slovakia

    Collision between train and bus in Slovakia causes multiple deaths

  • This photo provided by the Washington Department of Ecology shows a derailed BNSF train on the Swinomish tribal reservation near Anacortes, Wash. on March 16, 2023. A federal judge on Monday, June 17, 2024 ordered BNSF Railway to pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across its reservation. (Washington Department of Ecology via AP)

    Rail firm must pay Native American tribe $400m for illegal crude oil trains

  • a bullet train passes through a city

    ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

  • High Speed Rail Authority CEO Tim Parker stands on a platform beside a train at Central Station, Sydney

    Sydney to Melbourne in four hours: meet the man who seriously believes in high-speed rail for Australia

May 2024

  • Nadiya Neschcheryakovy at her post at a railway crossing station in the Kyiv region

    Rights and freedom
    The families risking everything to keep Ukraine’s trains running – photo essay

    Dutch photographer and multimedia journalist Jelle Krings revisits the families that have kept a war-torn country moving, despite the Russian onslaught and in the face of great personal sacrifice

April 2024

  • Two women sit in a prototype of the sleek, modern carriage.

    Efficient, reliable – and fragrant: German rail firm announces plans for the future

  • A busy commuter train comes to a halt inches away from an elephant on the track in West Bengal

    The age of extinction
    Why are so many of India’s elephants being hit by trains?

March 2024

  • Empty platforms at Munich railway station during the wage dispute with Deutsche Bahn, Germany.

    Deutsche Bahn files legal action over German rail strike

    GDL union has announced its sixth strike in a dispute over wages and hours
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