A series of problems has caused delays on the new Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line, the China Daily reports. In one incident, service had to be halted after a train broke down in Changzhou in the...
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At least 35' people returning from a wedding party died when a train hit a bus at a crossing near Kanshiramnagar, 350km south-west of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. A...
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A KTX train was brought to an abrupt halt inside a tunnel near Busan on 17 July, reviving concerns over the South Korean high-speed rail system. About 400 passengers were stranded for an hour,...
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Three of four trains stranded on 16 June as rain-triggered landslides buried parts of a railway in south-west China reached their destinations on Saturday 18 June, according to local railway...
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A train that made an emergency stop in a tunnel in Iwate Prefecture moments after the Great East Japan Earthquake remains stranded there more than three months later, while the operator of the line...
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On 10 June, the Kolkata metro was under water for nearly three hours as persistent rain flooded the city and penetrated into the tunnel. On previous occasions when trams, buses and taxis were put out...
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According to an Associated Press report, the derailing of one vehicle caused a six-coach express travelling toward Sapporo to make an emergency stop inside a tunnel. Smoke entered several carriages...
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Little more than six weeks after the earthquake and tsunami struck north-east of Honshu on 11 March, East Japan Railway was able to resume services on the whole of the Tohoku Shinkansen on 29 April....
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During peak hours, commuter trains on the Senseki line used to arrive every few minutes at stations along a 48km stretch of north-east Japan. Train traffic stopped at 14:46 on 11 March, when the 9.0...
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According to India Today on 27 March, 'Political unrest has virtually stopped the Indian Railways in its tracks. The railways say 3,611 trains were cancelled and 3,100 'more diverted between April...
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