trains

At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed Thursday with 55 people on board, police said.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation made something incredible happen for a nine-year-old boy in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday. 

Mayor Khan’s rebranding sees London’s Overground metro lines named for political ideas, social issues, and migration.

Officials say a semi-trailer truck driver was killed Sunday when a train derailed near Pueblo, Colorado. The incident is under investigation.

Saboteurs again knocked out a major rail link at the weekend, continuing a campaign of attacks to isolate Russian-occupied Crimea.

A massive train derailment occurred in Arizona on Wednesday near Williams, resulting in a tangle of cars.

A train derailed Wednesday near Lancaster, Minnesota, while carrying some hazardous materials.

Approximately eight train cars that derailed on Wednesday in Mohave County, Arizona, were hauling corn syrup.

The China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) is now being investigated by the Department of Transportation (DOT) Inspector General (IG) after the China-owned company has raked in billions in American taxpayer money, producing rail cars for a number of cities in the United States.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday claimed the Ohio toxic train derailment and factory explosion were evidence of America’s “crumbling infrastructure,” “declining governance capabilities,” and the inferiority of representative republican government.

During an interview with NewsNation on Tuesday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said that in the wake of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, the Department of Transportation is doing “a stepped-up inspection program for routes where certain kinds of hazardous trains

LONDON (AP) – Thousands of UK train drivers walked off the job Saturday in a strike over jobs, pay and conditions, scuppering services across much of the country. The action was the latest in a spreading series of strikes by British workers seeking substantial raises to offset soaring prices for food and fuel.

Thomas the Tank Engine fans were left dumbfounded when staff at a heritage railway line upbraided them for referring to the Fat Controller character, branding the name a “slur”.

Berliners should purchase $20 monthly “solidarity levy” tickets, regardless of whether they ever use such services, the deputy mayor said.

Canada will suspend restrictions banning unvaccinated Canadians from air and train travel in and out of Canada from Monday.

Transporting goods across the U.S. keeps getting more and more expensive with each passing month. Pete Buttigieg call your office!

The National Museum Wales has declared that the use of steam trains is “rooted in colonialism and racism”.

A petition, which gained hundreds of signatures in a matter of hours, has demanded that Italian railway companies offer women-only cars following a report a woman was brutally raped aboard a train last Friday.

A 31-year-old African migrant from the Ivory Coast was badly electrocuted after trying to escape a check by French police by climbing onto the roof of a train.

Several passengers have reportedly been injured after two trains collided near Salisbury, southern England, with authorities declaring the crash a “major incident”.

A fallen tree derailed train services from London to Glasgow, the site of the United Nations COP26 climate change summit. 

If more people took trains, Joe Biden argued, it would save millions of barrels of oil and would reduce pollution.

PRAGUE (AP) – Two passenger trains collided in the south-west of the Czech Republic on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens of passengers.

A high-speed train was targeted by gunfire in Marseille, France, shortly before entering the Marseille-Saint-Charles railway station.

A train in Texas caused an explosion Tuesday morning after it collided with an 18-wheeler, sending balls of black smoke and flames up into the air.

Police arrested a 21-year-old man at a train station in Toulouse, France, on Friday who was armed with two pistols and carrying the Quran, a prayer mat, and other Islamic texts.

The filthy, homeless-ridden New York City subway system is stumbling into the spotlight as the Chinese coronavirus crisis keeps New Yorkers mostly inside their homes and businesses closed.

This Thanksgiving will see some 55 million Americans traveling more than 50 miles over the holiday weekend, according to AAA.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say they have detained two 15-year-old boys in an investigation into the possible shooting of two trains.

Two men, who are part of the far-left anarchist scene in France, have been fined 180,000 euros for setting a railway locomotive on fire and causing well over a million euros in damage. The men, aged 20 and 34, are

A Pennsylvania woman drove her car onto train tracks,  blaming her GPS for directing her off the road and into danger, according to police.

AAA Travel projects that more than 54 million Americans will hit the road for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend — the most since 2005.

California’s terrible commuter rail service speeds and on-time performance are growing worse, due to homeless camps near the tracks and transients wandering on the rails.