The China Railway Corporation said on Monday that 154.62 million train tickets to be used during the 40-day travel period around Spring Festival have been sold so far since Dec. 23.
The China Railway Corporation said on Sunday that an average of 7.43 million train tickets have been sold a day since fares went on sale for the upcoming Spring Festival travel rush, with this figure up 20.3 percent year on year.
Some nine people, including one woman, were charred to death in a major fire which broke out on an express train in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior police officer said.
An out of service passenger train derailed at a subway station in Japan's central city of Osaka on Tuesday morning, affecting some 50,000 commuters but there were no reported injuries, according to local press.
At least six people died and 59 others wounded after a train ploughed into an oil truck operated by state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina in Bintaro of South Jakarta on Monday, police said.
At least 29 people were killed and 30 others injured when a freight train crashed into a number of vehicles near the Egyptian capital of Cairo in the early hours of Monday, official newspaper Al Ahram reported on its website.
A train for Hong Kong's first high-speed rail rolled off the assembly line on Thursday in east China's coastal city of Qingdao, Shandong Province.
A driver of a passenger train died and ten others were injured after a passenger train collided with a coal-loaded truck on Thursday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, local authorities said.
The major railway operator on Japan ' s southwestern island of Kyushu launched railway sightseeing tours on Tuesday with the newly-constructed sleeper train, the " Seven Stars in Kyushu." The new service is an attempt to carry more tourists from all over the world to the island's countryside, with the aim of stimulating the local economy.
At least six people were killed when a double-decker bus collided with a passenger train here during Wednesday's morning rush hour, authorities said.
The major railway operator on Japan's southwestern island of Kyushu launched the country's most "luxurious" cruise train on Friday, which will run on rail networks in seven prefectures, railway officials said.
A railway connecting Beijing to Berlin is said to be being built according to Chinese netizens.
Safety officials in charge of the railway stretch where a train accident killed 79 people in Spain were charged by the court on Tuesday.
A Spanish court found on Tuesday that the driver of the train, which derailed and killed 79 people last Wednesday, was speaking on the phone when the accident occurred.
Two trains collided into each other on Monday at the exit of the Granges-pres-Marnand train station in the western Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, leaving some 40 injured, according to local media report.
An official memorial service was held on Monday evening in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, northwestern Spain in tribute to the victims of last week's train crash which claimed 79 lives.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday announced that Spain would observe three days of mourning for the victims of the train accident in the country's northwestern region of Galicia which has claimed at least 80 lives.
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