High-speed rail travel has transformed the way people move across countries and continents. From Japan’s groundbreaking Shinkansen to China’s ultra-modern maglev systems, trains are now competing with ...

Happy 60 th birthday to high-speed rail. It was on October 1 st in 1964 that the Shinkansen, Japan’s revolutionary super-fast train, made its debut. Known as the “bullet train” because of its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Amtrak NextGen Acela is the fastest train in the US. I booked a business-class ticket from New York City to Washington, DC, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Amtrak Acela fleet will run at a top speed of 160 mph.SAUL LOEB / AFP Amtrak launched a new, faster line of Acela trains ...

The vast majority of train trips in America are pretty leisurely and slow. Most of the time, train travel is a romantic way to get around, but it’s not necessarily a fast one. That is, unless you live ...

As a frequent rider on Amtrak’s Acela, which connects the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., New York City, and Boston, I’m happy to announce that high-speed rail travel between Boston and ...

The CR450 is the new jewel in the crown of Chinese railway engineering. The Asian country, always determined to go one step further, has created the CR450.

The bespectacled astronomer and then CSIRO chairman was a rail enthusiast who grew up in England enraptured by its Great Western Railway (GWR) and idolising the brilliant engineer who designed it in ...

The construction of what is intended to be the world’s fastest train, the Chuo Shinkansen Maglev, which is intended to link Tokyo to Nagoya, with a potential future extension to Osaka, is currently ...