Tehran 23 March_The British government took over the railway s on Monday in a bid to ensure services keep running for key workers during the coronavirus outbreak.
TEHRAN, Apr 14 - Syria, Iran and Iraq plan to hold a trilateral meeting on the connection of their railway systems into one, media reported citing a source in the Syrian Ministry of Transport.
TEHRAN, September 01 - The United States has blocked a train project connecting North and South Korea amid deepening split between Washington and Pyongyang.
TEHRAN, August 11 -Kenyan authorities have arrested the head of the agency that manages public land and the boss of the state railway on suspicion of corruption over land allocation for the new $3-billion flagship Nairobi-Mombasa railway .
TEHRAN, May 28 - New Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that a planned high-speed railway that would cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to just 90 minutes will be axed because it isn't beneficial.
TEHRAN, May 8 - A railway workers' strike in Paris saw police forcibly push back protesters who had descended upon Montparnasse railway station on Monday.
TEHRAN, April 25 - French train workers have been holding rolling strikes for almost a month in a battle against president Emmanuel Macron's plan to reform the rail system.
TEHRAN, April 10 -Several hundred railway workers protested on Monday, April 9, a short distance away France's parliament, where lawmakers were to start examining a bill reforming the state-owned railway company.
TEHRAN, March 7 - China’s CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Rail Transport on Wednesday signed a contract with Iran’s IDRO Group to supply 450 metro cars for the Iranian cities of Ahvaz, Tabriz and Shiraz.
TEHRAN, February 4 - Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan are in talks to build Astara-Moscow railway , said Abbas Nazari, Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways' Foreign Affairs Department.
TEHRAN, October 31 -The German national railway provider has courted widespread controversy over its plan to name a new generation passenger train after the famous diarist Anne Frank. A Holocaust victim, Frank was taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp by train.
TEHRAN, October 2 - Iran and China have reached initial agreement for dispatch of six freight trains linking Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Iran’s capital Tehran, by end of 2017.
TEHRAN, September 29 - A stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, and at least 21 people were killed in the crush while another 27 were seriously injured, police said.
TEHRAN, July 25, YJC - The Export-Import Bank of China (EXIM) signed a $1.5 billion deal to finance the electrification of a high-speed rail line between the Iranian cities of Tehran and Mashhad.
TEHRAN, May 3, YJC - Authorities say 12 people were killed and 12 injured after a suspected gas explosion in a railway tunnel under construction through a coal seam in southern China.