Tag: train

• Tuesday, November 3rd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Whale Tail saves a Dutch metro train from disaster

  

  A Dutch metro train was saved from disaster on Monday when it smashed through a safety barrier but was prevented from plummeting into the water by a sculpture of a whale tail.

• Friday, September 16th 2011 - 06:44 UTC

  Second bus-train accident in Buenos Aires leaves 90 people injured

  

  A collision between a bus, cement truck and a pre-metro (lightrail) train injured 90 people on Thursday during morning rush hour traffic in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires, according to police.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Bus-trains collision in Buenos Aires leaves 11 dead and hundreds injured

  

  A bus driver gambled and tried to rush across railroad tracks on Tuesday despite a barrier, bells and flashing lights, setting off a chain-reaction collision with two trains that killed 11 people and injured hundreds in Argentina's capital.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 21:01 UTC

  Brazil’s 2016 Olympics deadline running faster that the high-speed train project

  

  Brazil's ambitious high-speed train project was postponed once again due to a lack of bidders but Brazilian officials anticipated they would hold two separate bids for the project to link Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo on time for the 2016 Olympic Games.

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 01:38 UTC

  Beijing-Shanghai high speed train link begins commercial operations

  

  High speed trains linking Beijing and Shanghai made their commercial debut on Thursday on a 33 billion US dollars track China hopes will open a new page to the country’s rail history and help ease its overloaded transport system.

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 01:11 UTC

  US plans 53 billion USD high-speed rail and intercity network investment

  

  United States unveiled a strategy to spend 53 billion US dollars on high-speed rail and intercity network over the next six years. It's a plan that will, according to Vice-president Joe Biden, bring the US closer to giving 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail in the next 25 years.