Train crash in Austria leaves 15 injured

VIENNA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- A train collided with a truck and derailed in Vienna on Thursday, leaving 15 people injured, local media reported. The incident took place as the truck was crossing a rail

2 killed after motorbike collides with t...

HANOI, March 21 (Xinhua) -- A motorbike carrying two women on Thursday collided with a passenger train in Vietnam's northern Hai Duong province, killing the duo on the spot, Vietnam News Agency repor

Feature: Taking a "fan train" to the foo...

By Sportswriters Yao Youming and Li Li XI'AN, March 21 (Xinhua) -- When Ding Qizhou boarded the train from Xi'an, capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, to the neighboring city of Weinan

Indian court acquits all four accused in...

NEW DELHI, March 20 (Xinhua) -- A special court on Wednesday acquitted all four people in the 2007 Samjhauta (compromise) Express train blast case, officials said. The blast went off on the train hea

Kenya's SGR train service ferried 1.7 ml...

NAIROBI, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway train service ferried 1.7 million passengers in 2018, the national statistics bureau said on Wednesday. The figure is more than double the

DR Congo train derailment kills 24

At least 24 people were killed and 31 injured Sunday when a freight train carrying stowaways derailed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to police and medical services. The accident occur

New high-speed train route planned betwe...

BERLIN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A new line of the German high-speed ICE train is being planned between the Ruhr area and Berlin with top speeds of 300 km an hour, the German Federal Ministry of Transpor

3 killed, 6 injured as blast hits passen...

ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and six others injured on Sunday as a bomb blast hit a passenger train in Nasirabad district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan prov

Security forces ordered to hunt insurgen...

BANGKOK, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's security forces on Friday were ordered to hunt insurgents who attacked a train bound for southern province Yala. The train heading for Yala was fired by a gro

Shaanxi runs special high-speed trains f...

By sportwriters Li Li and Yao Youming BEIJING, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Printed on the ticket of the K5488 train is an extra note: "Chang'an Athletics," a second-division soccer club's name, and "train f