ATHENS, Oct 8, 2008 (AFP) - Road, rail and air links across Greece were paralyzed Wednesday by a sweeping anti-privatisation strike that saw huge protests in Athens, traffic pile-ups and dozens of cancelled flights.

PARIS, Sept 29, 2008 (AFP) - Five of the six sections of the Channel Tunnel damaged earlier this month in an accidental fire have now reopened and rail traffic is gradually returning to normal, owner Eurotunnel said Monday.

BERLIN, Sept 27, 2008 (AFP) - The partial privatisation of Germany's rail operator Deutsche Bahn should bring in 4.5 billion euros, less than estimated by the government, according to a Sunday newspaper.

The report to be pubished in Welt am Sonntag quotes confidential analyses by 14 banks involved in the operation.

BERLIN, Sept 26, 2008 (AFP) - Germany's rail operator announced the timetable Friday for its long-awaited stock market listing next month, one of the biggest in Europe in 2008, despite a 'tense' situation on financial markets.

BERLIN, Sept 26, 2008 (AFP) - Germany's rail operator announced Friday the timetable for its long-awaited stock market listing next month, one of the biggest in Europe in 2008, despite a 'tense' situation on financial markets.

MUMBAI, Sept 22, 2008 (AFP) - For the last 34 years, Adrian Eric Baldrey has driven trains on India's railways but he is a dying breed and his retirement on his 60th birthday will spell the end of Mumbai's Anglo-Indian 'motormen'.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 18, 2008 (AFP) - The conductor of a train involved in a rail crash that left 25 people dead was sending text messages on his mobile phone during working hours, authorities said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, Sept 18, 2008 (AFP) - The conductor of a train involved in a rail crash that left 25 people dead was sending text messages on his mobile phone during working hours, authorities said Thursday.

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 16, 2008 (AFP) - Argentina is to delay construction of Latin America's first high-speed railway, due to budgetary concerns amid the depressed global economy, a government source told AFP Tuesday.

'The 2009 budget doesn't set aside sufficient funds for the project,' said the source close to the project, who asked not to be named.

LOS ANGELES, September 15, 2008 (AFP) - The engineer who was implicated in a deadly train collision Friday near Los Angeles was employed by the French company Veolia, which operates the southern-California Metrolink commuter railway, officials said Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, September 14, 2008 (AFP) - The death toll from California's tragic train collision stood at 25 early Sunday after friends and colleagues of a school teacher, who was on board an ill-fated commuter train, confirmed his death in the hospital.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - An engineer's mistake caused a deadly head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train near Los Angeles, killing at least 24 people with toll expected to rise, officials said Saturday.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - The death toll from a head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train near Los Angeles stood at 23 and could rise, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Saturday.

'The latest count is 23 people died in this accident and 135 have been injured,' many critically, the governor told reporters.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - The death toll from a head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train near Los Angeles stood at 18 and was expected to rise, with 135 people injured, 40 of them critically, officials said Saturday.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - The death toll from a collision of a passenger train and a freight train near Los Angeles has risen to 18, the company that operates the commuter rail said on Saturday.

'As of 6:30 a.m. the confirmed death toll from the coroner was now 18', Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrell said.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - A train collision on Friday near Los Angeles has left at least 10 to 15 people dead, the city's mayor announced.

'The latest figures that we have is, there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 fatalities,' Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told reporters. 'That's probably the most serious train wreck to occur here in a very long time.'

NONG KHAI, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - As Asia develops at a whirlwind pace and peace holds in once-warring nations, countries are reviving a decades-old dream of connecting the vast continent with a continuous railway.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - A train collision on Friday near Los Angeles has left between 10 and 15 people dead, the city's mayor announced.

'The latest figures that we have is, there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 fatalities,' Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told reporters. 'That's probably the most serious trainwreck to occur here in a very long time.'

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - A passenger train collided head-on with a freight train Friday near Los Angeles, killing at least two people and wounding 23, 10 of them seriously, authorities said.

The toll could rise, as six bodies under white sheets could be seen in the vicinity of the crash, according to images on local television.

LOS ANGELES, September 13, 2008 (AFP) - A passenger train collided head-on with a freight train Friday near Los Angeles, causing at least 23 injuries, local firefighters said.

The collision near the town of Chatsworth, about 31 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, caused a fire and at least one commuter train car and seven cars from the freight train to derail.

PARIS, September 12, 2008 (AFP) - A fire in the Channel Tunnel sent shares in operator Eurotunnel falling three percent on Friday, but the company insisted the financial damage would be 'limited.'

'Eurotunnel judges at this stage that the financial fall-out from this incident will be limited and points out that its operating losses are insured,' the company said in a statement.

PARIS, September 8, 2008 (AFP) - Air France and transportation group Veolia are to link up in a high-speed rail challenge to the state-run TGV trains when international lines are opened to competition, a press report said on Monday.

The report in the newspaper Aujourd'hui France said that the two private groups would create a joint venture from next Monday.

OSLO, September 4, 2008 (AFP) - Norway's public railway company NSB said Thursday two engineering companies, reportedly France's Alstom and Canada's Bombardier, had complained over its decision to hand a massive train contract to their competitor, Stadler of Switzerland.

COPENHAGEN, September 3, 2008 (AFP) - Denmark and Germany signed a treaty in Copenhagen on Wednesday for the construction of a giant bridge linking the two countries across the Fehmarn strait in the Baltic Sea.

The deal clears the way for the largest ever road and railway construction project in northern Europe and one of the biggest infrastructure projects on the European continent.

SHANGHAI, September 1, 2008 (AFP) - China is aiming to make a high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai the world's fastest when it opens in 2012, state media reported Monday.

BEIJING, August 30, 2008 (AFP) - A 'five-star' train from Beijing to Tibet will not begin service in September as earlier indicated, state media reported on Saturday.

Xinhua news agency reported in early March, just days before deadly riots broke out in the Himalayan region of Tibet against Chinese rule, that the train would go into service on September 1.

BERLIN, August 30, 2008 (AFP) - Germany's army is planning to build a railway line to link its logistical base in northern Afghanistan to its airbase in Uzbekistan, said Der Spiegel weekly that goes on sale Monday.

The Bundeswehr will construct the 67-kilometre (42-mile) railway line from Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan to the small Uzbek border town of Hairatan.

DOHA, August 27, 2008 (AFP) - The gas-rich state of Qatar said on Wednesday it has struck a one-billion-dollar deal with German railway company Deutsche Bahn for the construction of a rail network.

Qatar's state-owned infrastructure and property development company Diar announced the deal in a brief statement that gave no details about the network or when it will be completed.

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