Chaotic Rush to Board Trains in China
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Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China
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GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 5 -- For hours Liu Xuemei waited outside Guangzhou's main train station. A chilly drizzle set in, and she waited some more. Dusk approached, and still she waited.
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Trains and planes are starting to  return to normal across China, but millions are likely to spend  the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what  for some is the coldest winter in a century.
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TONGREN, China  - Millions of Chinese began the biggest holiday of the year without power on Wednesday after more than a week of fierce winter weather, but tens of thousands of stranded passengers had finally found trains, buses and planes to get home for family reunions.
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The Chinese Railway Ministry&#39;s project with an estimated contract value of 100 billion yen aims to double the speed of trains on five major existing railway lines, stretching over
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday, with no  quick end in sight to weeks of snow and ice that have trapped  energy and food flows ahead of a big national holiday.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - China's snow-stricken railways were creaking back into action on Friday, but with power cuts still crippling swathes of the country, President Hu Jintao visited a coal mine and urged workers to boost production.
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YIWU, China -- After 19 hours on a hard-seat train ride from Beijing, Zhao Taishan stood in the cold drizzle waiting for the mall doors to open.
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There was an eclectic crowd inside North Station during rush hour last night, though many of those moving about were hardly concerned with the voice over the loudspeaker as it barked instructions for which train on which track was headed to which bucolic town. Nor were many of these fast-walking folks interested in a pamphlet being handed out by a ...
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GOSHEN, Ind. - A mile-long freight train was ticketed by police for blocking a dozen city crossings for almost an hour as it awaited the arrival of a replacement crew...
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Hundreds of people marched through China's financial hub of Shanghai on Saturday protesting a planned extension of the city's magnetic levitation train, or "maglev", worried it would emit radiation and sicken them.
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Over half a million passengers could be  left stranded at a railway station in south China on Monday  ahead of the biggest holiday of the year after snow cut power  to more than 136 trains, state media said.
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Passengers on one of Britain's most overcrowded and least punctual rail services face further misery
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Grumbling about trains is part of the way of life, but one commuter has decided to do something about it -- by starting his own railway.
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Orange flames erupt from a train carriage, at right, at Atocha railway station in Madrid, Spain. The image shows people, foreground, atop an escalator leaving a crowded platform as the station is already shrouded
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China's snow-stricken railways  were creaking back into action on Friday, but with power cuts  still crippling swathes of the country, President Hu Jintao  visited a coal mine and urged workers to boost production.
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CHENZHOU, China  - A stampede at Guangzhou railway station killed one person when frustrated passengers rushed to board trains after days of cancellations because of fierce cold and snow, Xinhua news agency reported.