Most of London's subway shuts down
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Large swathes of London's sprawling transport network shut down Monday evening after maintenance workers walked out in a dispute over job cuts, transfers and pensions.
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Tens of thousands of rail passengers are stranded in London as First Great Western services grind to a halt.
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Helsinki City Transport (HKL) will be forced to cancel some of its tram services, including peak-hour ones, because so many of its new high-tech tramcars have broken down, the public transport department of the ...
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A London Underground train derailed Thursday, with at least one passenger reported slightly injured, British transport police said.
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One subway line serving tens of thousands of New Yorkers each day was knocked out of service and another severely limited, possibly for years, because a trash fire set on a station platform destroyed hard-to-replace equipment.
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London Underground has launched an investigation after a near miss between two tube trains at one of the busiest stations on the network, it emerged today.
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WORKERS on London&#39;s underground railway today averted New Year&#39;s Eve travel chaos by calling off a planned strike after reaching a deal with managers over hours, pay and conditions, a union spokesman said.
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Millions of commuters in London endured  travel chaos on Tuesday as a 72-hour strike by maintenance  workers closed most of the underground rail network.
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It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.
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Virgin trains out of London were halted when two miles of power lines were brought down in Buckinghamshire.
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One of the two trams that take visitors to the top of the Gateway Arch was out of service Sunday after a power failure trapped about 200 people for hours inside the landmark the night before.
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Police closed a busy street in central London on Friday and were examining a suspicious vehicle there, a spokeswoman said.
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London Underground was restoring all  tube services on Wednesday after a planned three-day strike by  maintenance workers was suspended after 30 hours.
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A lawnmower, a stuffed eagle, a blow-up doll and a human skull: just some of the more unusual items left on London&#039;s buses, Underground trains and taxis in the last few years.
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PARIS - Transport workers shut down most trains yesterday, testing the patience of Parisians forced to walk, bike, or skate to work with a strike aimed at derailing President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to strip away labor protections he says hurt France's competitiveness.
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London underground (LU) passengers are facing travel chaos as a union begins a 72-hour walkout.
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An underground train came off the rails  in London on Thursday and the London Underground transport  system said it was looking into reports that there had been an  obstruction on the track.