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.

The San Francisco Bay Area's BART system (Bay Area Rapid Transit) is in talks with WiFi Rail, Inc., to provide system-wide wi-fi service after a successful trial program. Phase three of the demonstration program recently completed, and in a small blurb on WiFi Rail's home page, the company said:

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.

India and Bangladesh have resumed passenger train service across their border after more than four decades. The services had been suspended following a war between India and Pakistan.

Overseas property investors or those seeking to move abroad will need to know how close their new homes are to communication networks. This simple requirement makes accessibility to a region one of the key features when buying property abroad. Now Italian property has improved a new high speed rail network is making this region the place to invest.

Five people have been killed and four others injured in an explosion on a railway track in Assam's Golaghat district, just as the Delhi bound Guwahati Rajdhani express was passing, in the early hours.

The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad’s partnership continues with Warner Brothers Consumer Products for 2007. The Polar Express 2004 holiday film from Warner Bros. reunited the Academy Award-winning team of Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis in an inspiring animated film based on the beloved children’s book, by Chris Van Allsburg, about a doubting young boy who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.

Hitachi Europe Ltd unveils its Ashford Train Depot maintenance facility and six-car Class 395 'bullet train' unit for Southeastern High Speed Services, at an opening ceremony in the presence of the UK Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP and His Excellency Mr Yoshiji Nogami, Japanese Ambassador.

Siemens Transportation Systems (TS) has received an order for 44 Railjet trains from Austrian Federal Railways. The order value amounts to approximately 540 million euros.

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.

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.

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.