Its development owes a great deal to Japan’s early railway history. Rather than the 4ft 8.5in “standard” gauge used in North America and much of Europe, a narrower gauge of 3ft 6in was chosen.

In the driver’s seat of a two-car train, Katsunori Takemoto puts on his white gloves and checks the antiquated gauges before setting out alongside cabbage fields in Japan’s rural Chiba. Like many ...

India's Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor will become the launch site for Japan's next-generation E10 Shinkansen bullet trains. The Indian Ministry of Railways announced on Monday that the ...

Seventeen second-hand passenger train carriages donated by Japan have arrived in Thailand, the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) announced on Monday. The Kiha 183 carriages, which were previously in ...

Wagon costs are the same. According to De Charmoy, South Africa, Japan and Australia are some of the few countries still operating on narrow gauge, with the rest of Africa increasingly moving to ...

2005-04-26 04:00:00 PDT Tokyo -- An obsession with punctuality may have led to Japan's deadliest rail crash in four decades, a morning rush-hour derailment Monday that killed at least 73 people ...

MANILA, Philippines — Japan has signified its intention to help fast-track ongoing railway projects in the country, the Department of Transportation said. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade ...