More Americans rode Amtrak trains than ever in 2024, as interest in passenger rail has seen a resurgence across the United States. Amtrak set its all-time ridership record for a fiscal year in ...

A year after its nighttime counterpart hit the rails, the highly anticipated daytime high-speed train linking Paris and Berlin is ready to launch on 16 December, Germany’s Deutsche Bahn has ...

For many American families, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a tree decorated with lights, ornaments, tinsel – and an electric train circling merrily beneath. No one knows precisely when the ...

With the rail communications fault now fixed, we're closing our live blog. Before we go, let's have a look at what happened on a hectic morning across the rail network: My train has been delayed ...

The City of Cape Town has had a breakthrough in its negotiations with the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), which lays the foundation for eventually devolving rail services to the ...

A "nationwide fault" has caused major disruption across at least 10 lines of the UK's rail network, National Rail says. National Rail blamed the issue on the radio system used between train ...

Rail passengers faced widespread disruption on Friday morning due to a nationwide fault with a critical communication system, although services are now returning to normal. National Rail reported ...

Historically, most train operators run at a loss. While investment in some areas rose impressively under privatisation in 1994, much could be done to improve connectivity and passenger ...

Three rail operators will be renationalised by Labour next year, but the move is not expected to bring down fares for passengers travelling on these lines. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said ...

The first three railway companies to be nationalised have been named as part of the new Labour government's plan to bring rail into public ownership. In May the service from London's Waterloo ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Vietnam's parliament voted for a $67 billion high-speed railway that would turn a currently 35-hour rail trip from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City into just 5.5 hours. The 350 ...

The new train is expected to travel at speeds of up to 350 kph (217 mph), reducing the journey from the current 30 hours to just five hours. The decision was taken by Vietnam’s National Assembly ...