Train
India Godhra train blaze verdict: 31 convicted
February 22, 2011A special court in the western Indian state of Gujarat has found 31 people guilty of setting fire to a passenger train in the town of Godhra in 2002. The court acquitted 63 other people of conspiracy and murder. The Sabarmati Express was attacked...
March 07, 2010A man who was nearly hit by a light rail train in Phoenix, Arizona owes his life to two assistants with the Phoenix Police Department. Surveillance video from the light train station shows the man, who appears drunk, falling off the light rail platform...
Air and train routes supplemented at winter holidays
December 26, 2007The air and train routes were supplemented to handle the flux of Moldovans coming home for holidays. The number of people coming home from abroad increases each year, Operator within Dispatcher’s Office of International Airport Chisinau Sabina...
Train, bus collide in India, 18 dead
December 14, 2007An express train and a small school bus collided at a railroad crossing in India Friday, killing 18 people and injuring 14 others. The incident occurred at a manually operated railroad crossing near a village in Moga district in northern Punjab state...
- December 13, 2007
No one had taken responsibility for a bomb that went off beneath a passenger train in India Thursday, killing five people and injuring several others. The blast occurred shortly before 1:30 a.m. in India's northeastern state of Assam, the BBC reported...
Germany working on small driverless trains
October 08, 2007Researchers in Germany are working on the creation of a small train system called RailCab that could mean rail travel without engineers. Deutsche Welle said Sunday that University of Paderborn researchers have already created a small prototype of...
Report: Deadly bus-train crash in Cuba
October 07, 2007Cuba's official media says at least 28 have been killed and many more injured in a collision between a bus and a train 500 miles southeast of Havana. The accident, which occurred on the eastern end of the island nation, is Cuba's worst in years, the...
Baby safe after being dragged by train
September 21, 2007A year-old boy is safe after being dragged in his carriage about 460 feet when the pram became stuck in a commuter train in Japan. The boy in the buggy was rescued by passersby at a crossing in Sakai after a passenger hit the emergency stop button...
Three killed in Austrian train crash
December 29, 2006Vienna (dpa) - An express train killed three people standing on railway tracks in western Austria Friday, the Austrian Press Agency reported. The accident took place at around 09:00 GMT when an Intercity train en route from Lochau to Bregenz in Vorarlberg...
Two dead as freight trains crash in northern Italy
December 13, 2006Trento, Italy (dpa) - Two train drivers died Wednesday when their freight train rammed into another freight train stopped at a red light in a station in northern Italy, officials said. The accident took place at 0535 a.m. (0435 GMT) in the Trentino...