Heatwaves can cause tracks to buckle, forcing speed restrictions or closures. An engineering expert explains how railways can adapt to a hotter climate.
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Once completed, the 2,177-kilometer GCC Railway will connect six Gulf kingdoms and provide alternative routes to Europe and Asia.
Railway safety has vastly improved for motor vehicles, but reducing the risk of collisions with pedestrians is much trickier.
Technology bubbles have often concealed major frauds. From the railway boom to the Madoff affair, are there warning signs at the heart of the current AI frenzy?
The deadly derailment has shone a spotlight on this transport relic of the 19th century.
Records of historic tragedies held in a new online database offer lessons for today’s workers.
The sandwiches may have been soggy but British Rail’s branding was sharp.
We’re already seeing the impacts of weather extremes on key parts of our lives, from the food we eat to the roads we use and our health.
The Thorpe rail crash in September 1874 killed 25 people.
A major issue in the ongoing negotiations is fatigue safety. Over the past decade, working conditions have become increasingly dangerous on Canadian railways.
Workers in industries like railways and air travel have significant structural power and can use their leverage to win favourable contracts because of the amount of economic disruption they can cause.
The Labour government wants to renationalise UK railways - but will it be any better this time round?
Labour’s first king’s speech for many years was designed to ‘get the country moving again’ - does it have the right ingredients to achieve this?
Britain’s railways are a vital pillar of the economy, so inefficiencies in the network hit the country in the pocket.
The Shinkansen bullet train is symbolic of Japan’s position as a railway superpower.
Trains once carried most of our freight. Could a return to rail help us meet our emissions cutting goals?
More efforts are needed to restore railways in Nigeria. It was a mainstay of the country’s economy in years gone by.
Transport development paved the way for colonization and is directly linked to the chronic and extreme social inequities Indigenous communities continue to face to this day.
Some 34 countries have high-speed rail or are about to get it. Yet since it was for proposed for Australia in 1984, no local plan for high-speed rail has got further than the drawing board.
A deadly crash in India that claimed the lives of around 300 people has refocused international attention on the importance of railways in the country.
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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