Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. have won a ¥40 billion order from a Bangladesh state-owned company to supply 144 train cars and maintenance depot equipment for the country's first rapid transit railway system. The state-run Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Co. is now building ...
Railway operators Tokyu Corp. and Izukyu Corp. on Friday began operating a luxury train service between Yokohama and the south of the Izu Peninsula — a popular hot-spring resort area. The inaugural Royal Express train left Yokohama Station for Shimoda, near the southern tip of ...
Shinkansen services resumed normal operations Thursday morning following wide disruptions due to a Wednesday power outage that affected at least 50,000 passengers, including 1,500 people who stayed in train cars overnight. According to JR Tokai and JR West, the outage, which began at around 7:55 ...
West Japan Railway Co. launched its latest tourist draw Saturday, a 10-coach luxury sleeper train called a "hotel on wheels." Since February, when the plan was announced, the Twilight Express Mizukaze has proven popular even months before services began in western Japan. On Saturday morning, the ...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II took a test ride Tuesday on a new high-speed intercity train made by Hitachi Ltd. of Japan. The queen said she enjoyed the 20-minute journey from a London suburb to the center of the British capital. At a ceremony held in London ...
East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday it will introduce security cameras on trains running on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line to enhance security. The railway operator said it will introduce the cameras on 550 train cars starting in the spring of 2018, completing installation by 2020 ...
Grenade-like objects found near a train station in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, on Thursday morning forced the evacuation of about 200 people before being declared harmless by the Self-Defense Forces. At around 7:25 a.m., police received an emergency call from an East Japan Railway Co. (JR ...
While the move would freeze the country’s public transport system, experts called it necessary to minimize potential damage from an attack.
Tokyo Metro is panned for suspending its subway lines in response to North Korea’s latest missile test, which a rival subway and the Japan Railway Group both apparently ignored.
The first freight train to link China directly to the U.K. arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world. The journey is the latest effort in China's drive to ...
Two elderly women were hit and killed by a train at a station in Kanagawa Prefecture, with surveillance camera footage showing the two jumping on the tracks holding each other's hands, police said Monday. The police said the women — one in her 70s and ...
The man who died during an attempt to rescue an elderly man at a rail crossing in Kawasaki was a Yokohama Bank employee, police said. Both died at around 9:10 a.m. Saturday while the banker was trying to drag the 77-year-old man out of the ...
