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CNN
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Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, according to China's official news agency. One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed..
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SF Gate
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An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.
The train, which derailed at abo..
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MSNBC
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North and South Korea began regular freight train service across their heavily armed border Tuesday for the first time in more than a half century, in another symbolic step in their reconciliation.
The 12-car train carried construction materials to a N..
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BBC News
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A nationwide one-day strike by public transport workers in France has left the country with drastically reduced train, bus and metro services.
Trade unions held protests in dozens of towns and cities in their campaign to protect a pension system enjoye..
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FOX News
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A passenger train crashed into a minibus carrying local council officials at an unmanned rail crossing in southern India on Monday, killing 11 people and injuring another 12 in the vehicle, police said.
Seven of the injured were hospitalized in serious..
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BBC News
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A French high-speed train (TGV) will shortly attempt to set a new world record for a train on rails, aiming to reach 560km/h (350mph).
The existing TGV record is 515km/h (320mph), set in 1990.
The new record attempt will be staged on a stretch of tr..
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BBC News
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Four people have been killed and 30 injured after extremely strong gusts of wind toppled 11 carriages of a train in north-west China, official media said.
The storm hit soon after the train left Turpan station, in China's Xinjiang region, Xinhua news a..
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BBC News
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A drunk man who passed out across railway tracks has been fined £560 and given 180 hours' community service...
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Reuters
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Hollywood star Angelina Jolie caught passengers of a packed commuter train unawares in India's financial hub of Mumbai on Monday where she shot for a film on a slain American reporter...
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SF Gate
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The British government says a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office has been suspended after secret government documents were left on a commuter train.
The documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were found by a passenger on a London commuter train..
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BBC News
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At least 70 people have been killed and 400 injured, many of them seriously, after two trains collided at dawn in eastern China, state media have said.
A train travelling from Beijing to the summer resort of Qingdao derailed and hit the other, which wa..
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MSNBC
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A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 66 people and injuring hundreds. Authorities were quoted as saying human error was to blame.
Seventy people were in critical cond..
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BBC News
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The passenger train service between Calcutta in India and the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, has resumed after an interval of more than 40 years.
Trains travelled in both directions on Monday - the first service since the 1965 war between India and Paki..
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BBC News
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A crowded passenger train has derailed in southern Pakistan killing at least 56 people and injuring more than 120.
More than 12 carriages of the overnight train travelling between Karachi and Lahore came off the rails near the city of Mehrabpur in Sind..
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MSNBC
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An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.
The train, which derailed at abo..
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BBC News
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The first regular rail service for more than 50 years has begun operating across the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea.
The flower-strewn cargo train, carrying raw materials for an industrial zone, left South Korea early in the mor..
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MSNBC
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The first four of 28 defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty of murder and other charges Wednesday in the culmination to a politically divisive trial over Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.
Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez was read..
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CNN
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A Spanish court has found the first of 28 defendants guilty in the 2004 commuter train bombings that killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 more than three years ago. Eight of the defendants are prime suspects in the bombings and charged with murde..
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BBC News
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More than 60 people are reported to have died in a train crash in central Democratic Republic of Congo.
Scores of people are believed to be injured, some of them trapped under carriages that overturned when the brakes failed late on Wednesday night...
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BBC News
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A train carrying Indian government officials has crossed the border and arrived in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.
The 500km (310 mile) journey marked the resumption of a direct passenger rail service between the two countries.
The link was suspended f..
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