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Passengers face a fresh wave of disruption next month as South Western Railway (SWR) workers walk out for five days from 18 June in a long-running dispute about guards on trains. The strike has been called by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transpor…

A man has been fined C$15,000 (£8,792) for attempting to smuggle thousands of leeches into Canada in his carry-on baggage.  Ippolit Bodounov of Niagara Falls was travelling from Russia to Torontos Pearson International Airport on 17 October last year when he…

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode program…

Toki no Yoake Monogatari lets you enjoy the ride as you travel off the Shinkansen-beaten path. Shikoku, the smallest of Japans four main islands, often gets overlooked by travelers, and a big reason why is because none of its train stations are connected to …

Visitors to a popular beach in Wales have been warned that they could face a fine of £1,000 for stealing its stones. The sign, which warns visitors to Amroth beach in Pembrokeshire that they could be liable to prosecution, is believed to be the work of an en…

A mid-air hailstorm shattered the windscreen of a plane as it was flying at 37,000 feet above China.  The China Southern Airlines Airbus A380 was flying from Guangzhou to Beijing when it was hit by freak weather. Captain He Xianghang issued a mayday call be…

The G20 Osaka Summit and Finance Ministers Meeting will be held in June 2019. During the G20 Osaka Summit and Finance Ministers Meeting (including several days before and after these meetings), locker services may be closed due to heightened security at rail…

VCG/VCG via Getty Images China has unveiled a prototype maglev train capable of speeds of up to 372 mph (600 mph). The train has been built by the state-run China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) and following extensive testing will go into commerci…

Amid preparations for the Tokyo Olympics next year, Japan is about to introduce a new model of its famed shinkansen, the “bullet trains” that pioneered high-speed rail transport in the 1960s. The newest model, the N700s, has reached a record speed of 360 kilo…

A new model of bullet train set to enter service ahead of the Tokyo Olympics hit a record speed of 360 kilometers (224 miles) per hour in a test run, operator JR Central said. The N700s the suffix stands for supreme is the first new model of bullet train on…