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Delhi-Howrah train speeds to improve as Railways upgrades two 73-year-old bridges in Uttar Pradesh Delhi-Howrah railway line: Built in 1953, the bridge is located in the Chunar-Chopan section of the Prayagraj Division. [1]

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway showcased Friday its training program in railway safety inspections and maintenance for foreign workers as the industry faces a labor shortage. [2]

TOKYO -- Service disruptions of Japan's shinkansen bullet trains doubled over nine years, a Nikkei analysis shows, with equipment malfunctions responsible for half of the incidents. [3]

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway said Wednesday that it will scrap a third of the bullet trains that serve on a line that cuts across central Japan, following water damage from when Typhoon Hagibis hit last month. [4]

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway unveiled Wednesday a cutting-edge shinkansen bullet train that is expected to slash by nearly 40% the travel time between Tokyo and Sapporo when the route goes into service. [5]

KARACHI -- A regional government in Pakistan says it is open to funding from Japan for an urban railway after funding for the project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, hit a snag. [6]

TOKYO -- Japan's railways are introducing a slew of new models conceived by world-renowned designers, merging groundbreaking concepts with cutting-edge technology to create trains the country has never been seen before. [7]

SYDNEY -- As Australia revisits the idea of building a high-speed rail link, Masafumi Shukuri, who chairs an industry group that promotes Japan's shinkansen bullet trains, expressed hopes of bringing the technology to the country. [9]

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[1] MM indianexpress.com · 2026-03-26 · 85% match

Delhi-Howrah train speeds to improve as Railways upgrades two 73-year-old bridges in Uttar Pradesh

Delhi-Howrah train speeds to improve as Railways upgrades two 73-year-old bridges in Uttar Pradesh Delhi-Howrah railway line: Built in 1953, the bridge is located in the Chunar-Chopan section of the Prayagraj Division.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-03-10 · 31% match

Japan's JR East runs safety training for foreign rail workers

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway showcased Friday its training program in railway safety inspections and maintenance for foreign workers as the industry faces a labor shortage.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-08-08 · 34% match

Japan's bullet train service disruptions double over nearly a decade

TOKYO -- Service disruptions of Japan's shinkansen bullet trains doubled over nine years, a Nikkei analysis shows, with equipment malfunctions responsible for half of the incidents.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-11-07 · 39% match

10 typhoon-damaged bullet trains head for the scrapheap

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway said Wednesday that it will scrap a third of the bullet trains that serve on a line that cuts across central Japan, following water damage from when Typhoon Hagibis hit last month.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-12-13 · 37% match

Faster bullet train aims to give airlines a run for their money

TOKYO -- East Japan Railway unveiled Wednesday a cutting-edge shinkansen bullet train that is expected to slash by nearly 40% the travel time between Tokyo and Sapporo when the route goes into service.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-10-19 · 37% match

Pakistan's stalled China-backed rail project prompts turn to Japan

KARACHI -- A regional government in Pakistan says it is open to funding from Japan for an urban railway after funding for the project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, hit a snag.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-05-22 · 36% match

Design on the track: Japan's cutting-edge trains turn heads

TOKYO -- Japan's railways are introducing a slew of new models conceived by world-renowned designers, merging groundbreaking concepts with cutting-edge technology to create trains the country has never been seen before.

[8] FI yle.fi · 2017-08-10 · 35% match

News

Minister of Transport and Communications Anne Berner said on Wednesday that passenger rail traffic will be gradually opened to competition by 2026, beginning in the heavily-populated south.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-02-28 · 34% match

Japan ready to help Australia with bullet train tech, industry chief says

SYDNEY -- As Australia revisits the idea of building a high-speed rail link, Masafumi Shukuri, who chairs an industry group that promotes Japan's shinkansen bullet trains, expressed hopes of bringing the technology to the country.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-12-07 · 33% match

Flooded Japan bullet train yard to be raised 10 meters

TOKYO -- Stung by the experience of October's powerful typhoon, East Japan Railway will lift key parts of a holding yard for shinkansen bullet trains by roughly 10 meters next year to prevent damage from floods, Nikkei has learned.

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