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Oksana Shevliuha, 51, wears a Ukrainian flag as she greets her daughter, Anastasia, who arrived on the first train to reach liberated Kherson on Saturday. They had not seen each other for six months. The first Ukrainian Railways train arrived in Kherson following a Russian occupation that lasted more than eight months.

World News

Photos: The emotional scenes as the 1st train from Kyiv arrives in liberated Kherson

3:54pm November 22, 2022

Family members separated for months poured out onto the platform and embraced their loved ones in tearful, joyful reunions. Passengers gawked as they took in the destruction of Russia's occupation.

Transportation

NC passenger rail ridership reaches all-time high

11:34am October 17, 2022

by Neal Charnoff

September was a record-breaking month for the state’s intercity passenger rail service.

Rescuers carry a boat into the subway in Zhengzhou, China, in July after flash floods trapped passengers underground.

Science

NYC's Subway Flooding Isn't A Fluke. It's The Reality For Cities In A Warming World

5:10pm September 02, 2021

by Rebecca Hersher

Underground trains are incredibly susceptible to flooding from climate-driven extreme rain and sea level rise. Cities around the world are racing to adapt their transit systems.

Transportation

State Rail Officials Will Use Research To Help Prevent Deaths On Train Tracks

10:58am February 22, 2021

by Neal Charnoff

State officials say they now have a new tool to help prevent fatalities on North Carolina's railway tracks.

Transportation

North Carolina Puts Ringling Bros. Train Cars Up For Auction

9:07am December 28, 2020

by Associated Press

The state of North Carolina is selling nine railroad cars that once belonged to Ringling Bros.

Transportation

Lexington's Depot District Gets $25 Million Grant

8:40pm September 13, 2020

by Paul Garber

The city of Lexington has tried for years to develop a transportation hub near downtown. Now, it's one step closer with a nearly $25 million federal grant for a new train and bus station.

Emergency medical personnel walk by a high-speed TGV train in Strasbourg station on Wednesday, preparing to evacuate 20 COVID-19 patients to hospitals in western France.

France Transfers Coronavirus Patients On High-Speed Train With Mobile Emergency Room

1:03pm March 26, 2020

by Eleanor Beardsley

Twenty patients were transported from the hard-hit eastern region of France, where hospitals are operating at overcapacity, to the western Loire Valley, where facilities still have plenty of beds.

The DMZ train sits at the Dorasan Station, just south of the inter-Korean border.

World News

South Korea Sends 1st Train In Plan To Reconnect With North

11:46am December 05, 2018

by Anthony Kuhn

The two Koreas have taken another remarkable step toward linking up — by train.

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Sidumiso Nyoni, 30, took the train from her home in rural Nyamandhlovu, Zimbabwe, to the industrial city of Bulawayo to visit family. "The train doesn't have a specific time at which it comes," she says.

Zimbabwe's Rickety Trains Get A Boost From Expat Investors Next Door

6:46pm July 29, 2018

Zimbabweans living in neighboring South Africa are injecting capital into a railway revamp — but much more is needed to get the country back on its feet.

A Shinkansen bullet train arrives at Tokyo Station in Tokyo in 2014.

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Japanese Rail Operator Says Sorry For 'Inexcusable' Departure 25 Seconds Early

10:53am May 17, 2018

by Scott Neuman

It is at least the second time in about six months that a Japanese railway has been forced to apologize to passengers for a seconds-early departure.