Metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction(bbc.com)

113 points by Stevvo 6 months ago | 32 comments

Rail travel is booming in America(economist.com)

96 points by martinpw 1 year ago | 95 comments

Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways(cnn.com)

39 points by peutetre 1 year ago | 73 comments

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image(bbc.com)

206 points by josephcsible 10 months ago | 160 comments

It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track(economist.com)

32 points by rustoo 3 years ago | 41 comments

Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%(euronews.com)

138 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 88 comments

Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada(trains.fyi)

450 points by ryry 2 years ago | 276 comments

Trains.fyi is a live map showing real-time GPS locations of passenger trains across the United States and Canada, updated every minute.

Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?(chronotrains.com)

618 points by vortex_ape 1 year ago | 392 comments

Chronotrains is an interactive map showing how far you can travel by train from any European station within 1 to 8 hours.

It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis(thetimes.com)

375 points by shoggouth 2 years ago | 146 comments

Times article profiling Simon Westbrook, a former Pfizer scientist who spent his redundancy money and 14 years developing an osteoarthritis treatment.

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn(theocharis.dev)

1122 points by JeremyTheo 10 months ago | 978 comments

Personal blog post by Jeremy Theocharis recounting a Deutsche Bahn train journey gone wrong, which he likens to being kidnapped, and the 1.50 EUR compensation he received.

Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made(kotaku.com)

796 points by oumua_don17 3 months ago | 332 comments

Kotaku impressions article on Running Train, a Japanese train driving simulator made by a single developer that is drawing glowing Steam reviews.

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure(rosalux.de)

419 points by robtherobber 11 months ago | 368 comments

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung essay arguing that Britain's 1990s railway privatization failed, as the railways now return to public ownership.