Travel influencer Ridge Hayashi put his train travel fears to rest with his bullet train journey from Tokyo to Kyoto.

Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for its upcoming fifth-generation high-speed train, the TGV Inoui. (TGV stands for train à grande vitesse ...

True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. By Alexander Nazaryan In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed ...

High-speed rail proponents who look forward to the bullet train connecting Southern California to Las Vegas may get sticker shock from the initial ticket prices. In recent filings that seek to ...

Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley are at the epicenter of high-speed rail development in California, as construction lumbers ahead on a 119-mile stretch from the northern fringe of Madera to the ...

Hitachi Rail’s signalling and telecommunications are set to improve both the capacity and maximum speed of the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed line, which was completed in 2014. The project involves the ...

Meanwhile, the Ankara-Istanbul “Super High-Speed” Train project, spanning 608 kilometers, will be complete in 2034. Other lines connecting the Turkish capital to key cities along the ...

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This makes high-speed passenger rail systems around the world some of the best means of moving from place to place, and these five trains are the fastest of them all. The TGV is France's primary ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.