The New York Central Railroad's M-497 "Black Beetle" shattered speed records, proving that jet technology could revolutionize rail travel. But despite its promise, the project was abandoned. From ...

In the 1950s, the Soviet Union attempted to build a mobile nuclear power station on tank tracks—an Arctic land train designed ...

Your article, “German trains are less punctual than Britain’s ‘broken’ railways” (FT.com, February 19), resonated strongly with my own recent experience, when travelling from Amsterdam ...

The granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, died on Thursday after being struck by a suburban train near ... during World War II, went missing ...