ITN News
| May 21, 2013
It's often nice to be close to transportation but few would choo-choose to live just feet from train tracks. Residents of this Vietnamese village vanish inside their homes twice a day to avoid accidents when the train comes speeding past their doors.
Tunisia Live
| Apr 2, 2013
The TGM, the Tunis suburban light rail that connects the downtown with the storied neighborhoods of Carthage and Sidi Bou Said, has also become a playground for Tunisian youth returning home from school. As the weather warms, more and more teenage...
Reuters
| Feb 6, 2013
Hundreds of millions of people in China are on the move for the New Year holiday and entrepreneurs are offering plenty of ways to ease marathon bus and train journeys. Reuters' Jane Lee puts a few through their paces, including a rubber chicken an...
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CCTV News
| Jan 31, 2013
Chinese infamous Train 2667 has the distinction of being the cheapest, slowest, and coldest train in the country. The temperature drops from -15 degrees Celsius to -47 degrees as it crawls for 37 hours, taking residents home for the Spring Festiva...
Euronews
| Jan 15, 2013
A military train transporting young recruits to an army camp derailed in a suburb of Cairo, killing at least 19 passengers, and injuring more than 100. The tragedy occurred just days after a new transportation minister from the Muslim Brothe...
Associated Press
| Dec 26, 2012
China on Wednesday opened the world's longest high-speed rail line that more than halves the time required to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China.
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 30, 2012
A fire on a train in India has killed at least 28 people and injured dozens of others. It is believed an electrical fault may have started the blaze in a crowded sleeper carriage. Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford reports.
Associated Press
| May 22, 2012
At least 25 people were killed in southern India early Tuesday, when a passenger train collided with a freight train. Officials were investigating whether the driver of the Hampi Express missed a signal or a signal malfunctioned.
NTDTV
| Feb 24, 2012
Buenos Aires wavered between sadness and anger on Thursday, a day after a commuter train crashed into a station, killing at least 50 people and injuring over 700. The accident occurred during morning rush hour on the notoriously overcrowded Sa...
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A train is a connected series of rail vehicles propelled along a track to transport cargo or passengers.
Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, rope or wire, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines.
Train tracks usually consists of two, three or four rails, with a limited number of monorails and maglev guideways in the mix.
The word 'train' comes from the Old French trahiner, from the Latin trahere 'pull, draw'.
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