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Trains on all but one railway line resume after China quake: report Beijing (AFP) May 14, 2008 
Trains on railways hit by a powerful earthquake in southwest China had resumed by Tuesday afternoon, except on one line cut off by a landslide, state press said late on Tuesday. The line going from Chengdu, in quake-hit Sichuan province, to Baoji, in neighbouring Shaanxi, was still inoperational, Xinhua news agency said, quoting Ministry of Railways spokesman Wang Yongping. The landslide ... read more |
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China begins building Tibet-Nepal rail link: official
Kathmandu (AFP) April 26, 2008China has started to build a rail link between Tibet and Nepal that could drastically reduce Kathmandu's trade reliance on its giant southern neighbour India, officials said Saturday. Beijing is bringing the railway line from Lhasa -- the capital of troubled Chinese-controlled Tibet -- to Khasa, a town along the Nepal-China border, Aditya Baral, the Nepalese premier's foreign affairs adviser ... more Appalachian State University Co-hosts International Hydrail Conference in Spain 
Boone NC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008The Appalachian State University Energy Center will co-host the Fourth International Hydrail Conference June 9 in Valencia, Spain. The conference, also hosted by NTDA Energia, will showcase projects applying hydrogen and fuel cell technology to railways and examine scenarios for integrating these technologies into existing transport systems and other factors related to the energy supplies of rai ... more Rail Transit Poor Choice For Reducing Greenhouse Gases 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2008In the last 15 years, American cities have spent $100 billion on new rail transit projects. Proponents now justify the expense with claims that rail will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but these projects fail to meet their promised reductions, a new Cato Institute study reports. In "Does Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Emissions?" Cato senior fellow Randal O'Toole demonstrates ... more Traveling By Train Great Alternative To Ease Air Travel Frustration 
New York NY (SPX) Apr 15, 2008The editors of IgoUgo.com believe the summer of 2008 may be the summer for train travel for Americans. The U.S. airline industry received the worst score ever recorded in the most recent Airline Quality Rating (AQR) study. In the same study, consumer complaints were up 60 percent over last year. Tapping into its community of savvy travelers, IgoUgo's editors have pulled together tips ... more Bangladesh, India restore train link after 43-year gap 
India-Bangladesh Border (AFP) April 14, 2008Huge cheering crowds lined railway tracks on the border between India and Bangladesh on Monday as passenger train services resumed between the two countries after a gap of more than 40 years. Trains, named the Maitree (Friendship) Express, travelled in both directions for the first time since the service was suspended after a 1965 war between India and Pakistan, when Bangladesh was part of ... more |
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Hamburg, Germany (AFP) Jan 24, 2008A goods train from Beijing arrived in Hamburg on Thursday after having crossed six countries in a journey organisers said could ring in a new era of rail transport between Asia and Europe. The "Beijing-Hamburg Container Express" left the Chinese capital on January 9 with its cargo of shoes, toys and electronic goods and covered the distance of 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) in 15 days, Germ ... more Shanghai maglev rail extension angers residents 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 14, 2008Chinese officials have promised to look into residents' concerns after thousands protested in Shanghai against plans to extend the city's super-fast magnetic levitation train. Scuffles broke out with police and dozens were arrested as demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday and Sunday complaining about possible noise and radiation, residents said. "Currently we are listening to the ... more Rail's 'new silk route' targets Chinese toys for Europe 
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2008Toys and DVD players reaching European shelves on a 'new silk route' by rail -- that's the goal for six train companies already testing a 'fast freight' line between Beijing and Hamburg. "China is the workhouse of the world -- the potential is enormous," said Luc Aliadiere, chief executive of the Paris-based International Union of Railways (UIC). A test-run lugging 100 containers of toys ... more Fast cargo rail link planned from Beijing to Hamburg: report
Beijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2008China and five other countries have agreed to collaborate on a train service between Asia and Europe that is expected to transport cargo twice as quickly as by sea, Chinese state media said Thursday. Under an agreement signed on Wednesday by China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany, the nations will simplify customs and border checks amid a range of ways to minimise the time for ... more Japan plans world's fastest maglev train: firm 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 26, 2007A Japanese rail operator said Wednesday it plans to introduce the world's fastest train in the next two decades, a next-generation maglev built at a cost of 45 billion dollars. "Maglev," or magnetically levitated, trains travel above ground through an electromagnetic pull. The only maglev train now in commercial operation is in Shanghai. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Central) plans to bu ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2007China has ordered 40 high-speed trains from the Canadian firm Bombardier and its Chinese partner for 1.0 billion euros (1.44 billion US dollars), Bombardier said in a statement received here. It said the order won by Bombardier Sifang Power Transportation (BSP) "is the largest ever for a passenger train in the history of the Chinese rail sevtor." Initial deliveries of trains, which will ... more New foreign-funded firm to pay for Beijing-Shanghai railway 
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 25, 2007A new investment firm funded by Chinese and foreigners will be tasked with providing up to 30 billion dollars to build a high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai, state press said Thursday. The state-run firm will seek the money from local banks and overseas private equity investors for the construction of the long-planned ultra-fast railway between China's two most important cities ... more World's first hybrid train makes inaugural trip in France 
Troyes, France (AFP) Oct 9, 2007The world's first hybrid train, which is fuel efficient and reduces emissions, made its inaugural trip from Paris to the French Champagne region on Tuesday. Built by Canada's Bombardier, the train switched from electrical power to diesel fuel to reach the eastern French town of Troyes from Paris in two hours, travelling at a maximum speed of 160 kilometres per hour (100 miles per hour). ... more Germany to build first commercial Maglev train line
Berlin (AFP) Sept 25, 2007Germany's richest state agreed Tuesday to build the country's first commercial high-speed magnetic levitation train line, but officials warned the price tag could be heftier than first thought. After months of talks, the Bavarian government, industry leaders and Deutsche Bahn rail company signed an agreement to build the line after a late-night deal capped with a champagne toast. Authori ... more China's own high-speed train due by year-end 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2007China's first domestically developed high-speed train, capable of reaching 300 kilometres (190 miles) per hour, will roll off production lines by the end of the year, state media reported Monday. The train can seat around 600 passengers and will run on the 115-kilometre-long Beijing-Tianjin route prior to the Beijing Olympics in August next year, the Xinhua news agency said. It will cut ... more
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