A report into the condition and usage of almost 9,000km of France’s railways painted a bleak picture about the prospects of the country’s rural lines, highlighting high running costs and extremely low ...

In some rural areas of France, cows are no longer watching the trains go by. Once well served, these areas are now suffering from the loss of steam on some of the smaller railway lines. The French ...

TUCKED AWAY in the verdant mountains of Shimane, in western Japan, Gobira railway station has nearly disappeared. Its signs have faded, the letters hardly legible. The tracks are blanketed in thick ...

CARTING fresh air around, argues Alistair Darling, the transport secretary, is a poor use of public money. So why not close the country's least-used and most-subsidised railways, perhaps replacing ...

The IRITS webinar explored how railway telecommunication stakeholders plan to introduce FRMCS. Credit: S. Hermann and F. Richter. To be launched in 2025, the new 5G-enabled telecommunications standard ...

The most recent rural train derailment to gain national attention occurred Saturday, June 24, when train cars containing liquid asphalt plunged into the Yellowstone River. A Daily Yonder analysis ...

Several Somerset MPs have urged the government to increase rail investment in the south west as nationalisation slowly creeps closer. The Railways Bill, which is currently working its way through the ...