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Rail transport

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

  • Rescuers and police officials at work near damaged coaches after the train crash in October.

    Indian train drivers in crash that killed 14 were watching cricket, minister says

February 2024

  • Members of the Verdi trade union during a strike by Lufthansa workers earlier this year

    Public transport workers join climate activists for week of strikes across Germany

  • Screengrab of runaway train in India

    Indian runaway train travels 43 miles without a driver

  • Smoke billows from a derailed train

    America's dirty divide
    Residents’ lives still in limbo a year after East Palestine toxic derailment

  • Chemicals the train was carrying are burned off in East Palestine

    Politics Weekly America
    A year on from the East Palestine toxic train derailment, what’s changed? – podcast

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