While the NTSB sought to determine if the engineer of a Metrolink commuter train was text messaging before a crash with a Union Pacific freight train, the head of the California Public Utilities Commission said he would seek an emergency ban of cell phone use by California train operators. 25 people were killed in the accident.

At least 43 people were killed and 247 others injured in a pre-dawn collision between two passenger trains at Zibo city in east China's Shandong province on Monday.

GOVERNOR STRICKLAND OF OHIO ASKS AMTRAK TO REVIEW 3-C CORRIDOR FOR POSSIBLE PASSENGER SERVICE. Ohio joins several other states in wanting new service to be studied.

RAIL WORKERS who take time off work after being assaulted or abused by passengers are having their pay docked by Northern Rail, Britain’s biggest rail union reveals today.

RMT GUARDS and train drivers at First Great Western have voted overwhelmingly to strike in disputes over breakdowns in industrial relations and the use of managers to guard and drive trains.

Beijing's subway system is expected to become the world's largest by 2015, with investment set to touch USD 10.8 billion by 2010.

German train drivers went on strike today, after pay talks with one of Germany's largest railway operators, Deutsche Bahn, failed to reach a compromise.

A speeding train travelling at 100 km per hour carrying hundreds of commuters slammed into an empty train near Rio de Janeiro, killing eight people and injuring more than 80.