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NEW DELHI: Nearly 90% of the land in Maharashtra’s Palghar town required for the ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project could not be acquired by the authorities in the last two years.  An RTI reply received by this newspaper has disclosed that only …

NEW DELHI: Nearly 90% of the land in Maharashtra’s Palghar town required for the ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project could not be acquired by the authorities in the last two years. An RTI reply received by this newspaper has disclosed that only 30…

An 80-year-old woman was hit and killed by a bullet train in Fukushima City on Saturday, police said. According to police and JR East, the incident occurred at around 10:05 a.m. on a crossing between Niwasaka and Sasakino Station in Fukushima, Sankei Shimbun…

From wood and coal and oil (for steam generation) to electricity, gasoline, diesel, liquefied natural gas, linear induction, magnetic levitation, vacuum tube and hydrogen propulsion (did I miss any?) the world of train-power generation has experienced it all.…

For most city residents, trains and subways are an integral part of daily life, and few countries have embraced rail travel like Japan. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that one of the best train museums in the world is found here: the Kyoto R…

Living toxin-free is difficult in modern times, but plotting a quick wellness getaway at a hotel with an ecologically conscious approach to delivering services is more than doable, Japanese environmental activist Kazuhiko Nakaishi says. The representative di…

Japan prepares the ALFA X train for service

On April 3, 2007, a sleek train raced across the countryside of northeast France, pursued by a small jet aircraft. On an open stretch of track between Prény and Bezannes, the train galloped ahead eventually reaching 500kph. Officially, no train operated by TG…

Thanks to snarled traffic, trains are by far the best way to get around Tokyo, and you can hit up the vast majority of the downtown sights using just one line. The JR Yamanote line forms a loop around the city center, and can take you to the high-fashion bout…

Michael Pawlyn has rightly said. You could look at nature as being a catalog of products all of which have benefitted from a 3.8 billion year research and development period Nature has a lot to teach us about adaptive and responsive designs. The very idea o…