China denies exporting stolen railway technologies

China's Railway Ministry denied reported accusations Saturday that foreigners are being squeezed out of the Chinese railway market and that local companies are exporting trains using Western technologies.

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China to invest $22B on railways in north province

China plans to invest $22 billion to build more railways in the coal-rich northern province of Shanxi as part of a bid to ease chronic congestion and promote domestic growth in the face of the global economic slowdown, state media reported Sunday.

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Vietnam plans to build 2 new railway systems

The Vietnamese government says it is planning to build two new railway systems in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City at the cost of nearly $15 billion. It says it hopes to help ease the overloaded traffic system in the country's two booming cities.

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The rail line designated Tama "Super Station Master," gave her a little train conductor's cap, put her on the railway's posters, and, Step Three: Profit.

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FRENCH police called off their search for a woman who threw herself in front of a speeding train when they found that she had dragged herself home and gone to bed.

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Article: Rail Electrification - We're all Keen but keep it Clean!

The announcement by Lord Adonis and Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week to electrify two main rail routes in Britain, the Great Western route from London to Bristol and Swansea, and the Stephenson's era line from Liverpool to Manchester; has been widely welcomed by passengers …

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It is a complete con for the National Express group to walk away from the contract, leaving a gap in the national rail budget, forcing the state to bear the cost while the service is re-franchised – possibly at a lower value than the National Express contract – but insisting  …

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You would find it hard to design a nation better suited to modern rail travel than Britain: it is a natural hub-and-spoke country. London is an overwhelmingly dominant power in the land.

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I THINK this recession thing is really going to people's heads. I've been keenly following Paxman's wonderful series on the Victorians, and I can reliably inform you that they didn't have nervous breakdowns just because it was taking longer than expected to sell their flats.

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A train packed with 400 passengers set off from London to Swanage this morning, the first time such a service has run on this line for 37 years.

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A festival in France is celebrating the role of railways in the world of the silver screen, but why are there so many trains in the movies we watch? Once upon a time an audience was very surprised to see a train in a film.

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Melbourne's rail network has gone into meltdown with the cancellation of more than 20 peak-hour trains.

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The golden age of steam was never more glorious than during the heyday of the Great Western Railway.

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It is 150 years since the death of Robert Howlett - the young photographer who took this iconic image of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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This lucky little cat has used all her nine lives on a terrifying 100-mile rail journey clinging to a tiny ledge under a freight train wagon. Her curiosity led her to climb on as the train was undergoing maintenance at a depot.

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Maybe, just maybe, he will want to drive something like this when he grows up. For this awe-struck little boy, the gleaming leviathan pulling out of York station on Tuesday night may as well have been a fire-breathing dragon.

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Dr Richard Beeching has become one of the villains of British history for dismantling the railway network in the 1960s. But, Ian Hislop asks, how much did he really change Britain?

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Railway history was made today when the first steam locomotive to be built in Britain in almost half a century took to the tracks. Enthusiasts painstakingly assembled the Tornado, based on a design that vanished from the network in the 1960s, over the course of 18 years.

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Commuting by train brings us together in a very down to earth way - something flying and all its associated queues and security cannot do, says Lisa Jardine.

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Rescue teams worked frantically into the night Friday after a Metrolink passenger train carrying 225 people collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train on a sharp curve in Chatsworth, killing at least 15 people and leaving more than 135 injured.

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Two old Railway Locomotives have been discovered under the sea at Long Branch, New Jersey.

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At least 10 people are reported to have died and some 100 have been injured after a train ran into a collapsed bridge in the Czech Republic. A railway spokesperson said the accident, near the eastern town of Studenka was "a serious disaster".

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A woman pushed on to rail tracks by two men she had told to stop smoking says she feels "really lucky" to be alive. Linda Buchanan, 58, landed inches away from the 750-volt live third rail at Farningham Road station in Kent and suffered a broken wrist.

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The first new steam locomotive in Britain for almost half a century is chugging into action in Darlington. The Peppercorn Class A1 Pacific 60163 Tornado, a replica of the last passenger steam locomotives, was built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust at its site in the town.

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Britain's commuters have been allocated less space than the legal minimum for transporting farm animals, official figures show.

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Five new high-speed main lines crossing the width and breadth of the UK may be built as part of a review of the rail network, Network Rail says.

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