Italian national rail company Trenitalia launched its latest hybrid passenger trains earlier this month on the scenic route from Taranto to Reggio Calabria on the nation’s southern coast. The trains, built by Hitachi in Italy, are claimed to be the world’s first four-mode hybrid trains — and while they are the first to enter service, []Read More
Jacques Cooper, designer of France's first ultra-fast TGV train that shattered world speed records when it came into service in 1981, has died aged 93, his former employer Alstom said on Wednesday.
In a recent incident that has left the public outraged, a usual suspect brazenly robbed a shy French boy in broad daylight, and shockingly, no one intervened. The lack of action by bystanders has sparked heated discussions about personal safety and the responsibility of individuals to protect one another. The incident unfolded near a bustling marketplace in Paris. The young French boy, visibly nervous and overwhelmed, was targeted by a seasoned thief who tussled with him for a while then...
Routes are impacted from Cambridge to Ipswich, and from Ipswich to Peterborough
The incident, which is being dealt with by emergency services, was confirmed earlier today (April 14) by operator LNER. A spokesperson said: “It is with great sadness that we report that a person has been hit by a train between Leeds and Doncaster. “Services are subject to delays when passing in the surrounding areas.” Sign up for our free newsletters now National Rail confirmed this afternoon that the lines have since reopened following the incident, but that trains running between the two...
A new hack enables travellers to save £40 on train fares from Edinburgh to London – by doing one simple thing. The Independent uncovered a bizarre rail fare anomaly that means some passengers booking trains from Auld Reekie to the Big Smoke are often forking out twice as much money, depending on which Edinburgh train station they depart from. “Anyone searching for a Saturday morning train from Edinburgh Waverley to London King’s Cross on the LNER website is told that the cheapest fare is £200...
The Grand National is the biggest race of the British jumps season and one of the most-watched TV events in the British sporting calendar with 7.5million British viewers tuning into the 2023 race.
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul are set to meet in the ring for a showdown bout in July. Fans are convinced 57-year-old Tyson will beat his Youtuber opponent. Footage has emerged showing the huge differences in training preparations
In a borrowed room not far from the Buendia Station of the Philippine National Railways in Makati, where I stay on some days when I’m too tired to drive home, I often hear the blaring whistle of a passing PNR train.
Overlook the training montage sequence in Monkey Man at your own pop culture and movie peril. Kid (Dev Patel) aims to avenge his mother’s death by vanquishing the police chief (Sikander Kher as Rana Singh) who raped and killed her and the false spiritual guru (Makarand Deshpande as Baba Shakti) who ordered the massacre of Kid’s village in India. In a dense, tense, and pivotal 90-second sequence, Kid works himself into fighting shape by punching a rice sack repeatedly—for how many days, we don’t...
Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was until the past 24 months or so, when funding started to slow down, leading to less internal development or funding resources going toward open source. Companies suddenly had to justify themselves, have a real business model, cut costs, and fundamentally start to return something to investors. On the...
Planning on leaving France? You may, depending on your circumstances, be charged the 'exit tax'.