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Three teenage girls were joking around and taking pictures on a narrow bridge in a Florida town when they were hit by a train, ...

Two commuter trains collided at rush hour in a Brussels suburb Monday, killing a number of people, officials said.

A six-car red line train has derailed near the Farragut North station in downtown Washington, Metro officials said.

China unveiled what it touted as the fastest rail link in the world on Saturday, the Agence France Presse reported.

A Metrolink commuter train collided Wednesday with a vehicle that had been hurled onto the tracks after being struck from behind ...

Cross-Channel Eurostar trains began running between London and continental Europe on Tuesday after four days of cancellations blamed on powdery snow left tens of thousands stranded just before Christmas.

At St Pancras International station weary strings of travellers stood and sat forlornly at lunchtime on Saturday. Eurostar workers stood in little knots, or clustered around police officers, looking for safety either in numbers or in a firm truncheon and a pair of handcuffs.

Twenty-two people were killed and several dozen injured in a Russian train crash on Friday, Russian news agencies said, and one source suggested it could have been caused by a bomb.

Millions of Americans got an early jump on their Thanksgiving travel Wednesday, with many opting to drive or take trains and buses instead of shelling out more money for flights amid a sour economy still hitting household budgets hard....

U.S. taxpayers spent about $32 subsidizing the cost of the typical Amtrak passenger in 2008, about four times the rail operator's estimate, according to a private study....