Eurostar, a train service connecting UK and Paris, was expected to set a new record on Tuesday, with the opening of a new high-speed track on the British side of the Channel Tunnel that shaves 20 minutes off the normal time.

Fastest ever journey time of just 2 hours and 3 minutes. Record set on the UK’s first high-speed line, High Speed 1, into Eurostar’s new London terminal at St Pancras International.

Russia launched a terrorism investigation on Tuesday after a bomb derailed an express train traveling from Moscow to St Petersburg, overturning carriages and injuring dozens of passengers.

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One of France's famed fast trains will try to break the world speed record on rails Tuesday, officials said. The train, made up of three double-decker cars between two engines, will whiz down a stretch of a new line linking Paris to eastern France, starting the journey from the French capital. It will try to break the 1990 rail record, also held by a French train, of 515.3 kph (320.2 mph).