Railway ticket bookings began Thursday for the upcoming travel period around the Spring Festival, China's Lunar New, with around 356 million trips expected.
In one of the worst railway tragedies in India in recent years, at least 91 people were killed and more than 150 others injured after an express train derailed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh early Sunday morning.
Trains will stop at a 106-year-old station in Beijing for the final time on Monday next week before the tracks are torn up to make way for a high-speed rail link.
Intern train driver Nebiyu Melaku flashed a toothy grin when a train pulled in with a sharp sound of siren, startling the reporters interviewing him.
About 150 Chinese exhibitors have gathered at the Berlin railway industry fair InnoTrans, the world' s leading trade fair, to showcase their locomotives, wagons, other railway vehicles, as well as their latest rail and traffic technology.
China's top certification and accreditation authority on Tuesday pledged to work together with China's railway authority to promote overseas development of China's high-speed railway products and technologies.
Railway lines built by Chinese firms in African countries are becoming a model of China-Africa cooperation in industrial capacity, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during his visit to Kenya on Wednesday.
China’s rapidly-developing railway system has yet to meet the military's demand for transportation, a newspaper affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) admitted, after photos of PLA soldiers traveling in boxcars triggered online discontent.
China has the technology and experience to build line from Tibet to South Asia, experts say.
China's Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest rail system, marked its 10th anniversary on Friday.
China will boost railway network construction. The "medium and long term railway network plan" will improve the railway network layout, especially in the middle and western regions, according to a statement issued after a State Council executive meeting, chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.
The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation and an Indonesia-China joint venture firm for the Jakarta-Bandung high speed railway on Wednesday signed a concession agreement.
Despite the continuous queries of foreign media on China’s high-speed railway cooperation with neighboring countries, the nation’s improved technology has earned China-made equipment more global recognition. Data shows that China is now home to more than 60 percent of the world's high-speed railways (HSR).
More than 50,000 passengers were stranded at Guangzhou railway station as snow and sleet in central and eastern provinces delayed 27 trains, a railway spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Vadodara will be home to the country's first railway university, minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha has said.
With smiling faces and great enthusiasm villagers from the Bandung Barat district of West Java hailed officials and other stakeholders, as the region gears up to having Southeast Asia's very first high-speed railway.
Indonesia's first high-speed railway, being built by China, will be a significant boost to the country's economy and act as a catalyst for other key infrastructure developments regionally, according to experts following the project.
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