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Rail transport

September 2026

  • a train in motion in a subway station

    New York man killed after bag caught in subway train doors, police say

  • Boryspil, Kyiv region, Ukraine, 27 AUG 2026. Railway workers respond to a call to repair overhead lines after they were destroyed by a Russian drone strike. They worked under shelling to repair the lines and restore the connection to the capital, as further drones were reported coming their way.

    Russia targets Ukraine’s rail network as war enters deadly new phase

August 2026

  • A computer-generated photo of a Virgin Trains high-speed train at a platform inside St Pancras station's glass-roofed hall

    Virgin Trains a step closer to running services to Europe in blow to Eurostar

  • Christian Wolmar

    double quotation markThe most dynamic countries are surging ahead with high-speed rail. Others, like Britain, are stuck in the station

    Christian Wolmar

July 2026

  • Officials said at least 15 people were injured, one seriously, in the collision on Erasmus Bridge

    Two trams collide on bridge in Rotterdam, injuring at least 15 people - video

    Officials said at least 15 people were injured, one seriously, in the collision on Erasmus Bridge
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June 2026

  • A passenger walks under information screens on a near-deserted platform with trains stopped on either side of it

    Germany’s railways grind to halt as IT maintenance snag takes down network

    Deutsche Bahn widely criticised after hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded in operator’s latest setback

May 2026

  • Daily Life in New York City, US - 19 May 2026People walk past the 34th Street, Penn Station subway station in Manhattan, New York City. Daily Life in New York City, US - 19 May 2026

    Fire in train car near New York’s Penn Station injures five and disrupts service

  • Firefighters and fire engines surround the freight train at the site of the collision

    At least eight people killed in Bangkok rail crossing collision

  • A train passes through a snowy Alpine village in Tyrol with chalets and snow-covered forests.

    EU proposes end to ‘five tabs, three apps and a prayer’ for cross-border train bookings

  • a train passes over a bridge

    Six people found dead inside train car at rail yard near Texas-Mexico border

  • The slow lane
    Can a sprawling city make public transit work? Sydney may be on the right track

  • The slow lane
    Vienna’s public transport is the envy of the world – so why can’t it ditch cars?

April 2026

  • Tractor driving over a grain field, kicking up dust

    EU farmers and hauliers to get up to €50,000 to cover extra costs of Iran war

  • Indonesian rescuers work at the site where a passenger train pierced through the rear carriage of a commuter train in Bekasi, West Java, early on Tuesday.

    Train collision in Indonesia kills 14 as rescuers work to reach survivors

  • Two crushed trains standing head-to-head on a rural section of railway

    Head-on train collision near Copenhagen leaves five critically injured

  • a passenger with luggage walks past a Frecciarossa train at a platform

    Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

March 2026

  • Period-dressed crowd gathered at railway platform with steam train

    Trains review – magnetic cine-essay explores the liberation that the locomotive gave us

    The advent of the steam age ushered in a great social revolution, but as Maciej Drygas’s film points out, the technology also took us off the rails

February 2026

  • a train at a station

    Manhattan commuters urged to work from home for weeks amid rail upgrade

    Extensive works on key bridge in New Jersey – part of $16bn Gateway project – will disrupt rail services into New York
  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

    Brief letters
    Recalling a royally messy family history

    Brief letters: Monarchy’s troubled past | Dark glasses | Family train travel | Norwegian dyne | Australian doona | Putting a debate to bed
  • Female duck and ducklings

    Brief letters
    Our ducks get the royal treatment too

    Brief letters: Duckingham Palace | Child-friendly train travel | Australian Open | Apostrophe confusion | Washing duvet covers
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