A 60-strong cycling charity group, comprising gardaí and their friends, will take on their most gruelling fundraising race yet when they tackle the east coast of the US.

Not just the worthy winner of a fantastic World Cup, Germany is a brilliant country. Here's why.

The Cork to Belfast rail link is among the European rail lines which could be potential targets for al Qaeda.

An arson attack on Berlin’s busy central train station was foiled at the last minute today after staff discovered a firebomb.

Eurotunnel slumped to a full-year loss today as a long-running dispute over insurance payments arising from a fire in 2008 offset a rise in passenger numbers.

FREEZING temperatures and snowstorms killed 12 more people and caused travel chaos across northern Europe yesterday as some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans.

German transport operator Deutsche Bahn said today its acquisition of bus and train operator Arriva was complete.

A passenger train collided with a truck in Germany today in an incident which left two carriages derailed.

A heatwave across much of Europe is starting forest fires, causing crops to wither and roads to melt, while fridges and fans are buckling in the searing sun.

IT’S so hot that women in bikinis are sunbathing in Moscow.

Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel snapped up the UK’s third biggest rail freight firm in a £31m deal today.

The London market narrowly held on to Wednesday's 21-month high today despite falls for banks and miners as investors looked to take profits.

EUROPE was blasted by more snow yesterday as Britain endured its coldest night of the winter and fears for energy supplies intensified.

Police say that 20 people suffered bruises and some fractures after a train travelling from Hamburg to Munich apparently collided with a flock of sheep near a rail tunnel.

Germany's national railway operator said today that it is offering train drivers a pay rise of up to 13% as it tries to end a bitter dispute which has resulted in several strikes.

German train drivers returned to their jobs early today after a three-day strike calling for better pay, officials said.

German train drivers entered the third and final day of their strike today in a dispute over pay.

German freight train drivers began a three-day strike today that will spread to passenger services as they step up pressure in a pay dispute.

British freight rail operator EWS today looked set for German ownership after talks on a possible €370m sale were reported to be at an advanced stage.

Europeans laboured today to restore services across the continent after hurricane-force winds knocked down trees, brought down power lines and damaged buildings, killing at least 28 people and disrupting travel for tens of thousands.

A shortage of electricity in mainland Europe’s power grid caused blackouts across the continent, halting trains, trapping people in lifts and plunging millions of homes into darkness.

Germany’s national railway today launched a service that will allow passengers to buy virtual tickets using their internet-capable mobile phones.

GETMOBILE shares dived nearly 40% yesterday as the Dublin stock exchange newcomer issued a profit warning just two months after floating.

More than 40 people were injured, 10 of them seriously, when a commuter train collided with a track-laying train in the southern German city of Munich today, police said.

Britsh transport group Arriva is considering expanding its continental European rail operations, it emerged today.

Six people, including three children on a bike tour with their mother, were killed today when two trains collided head-on in south-west Germany.

Six people were killed and 15 others injured today when two passenger trains collided in Germany.

A family of five killed in the France train fire was returning from a one-day visit to Paris to see the city where the father had proposed to his future wife more than 16 years earlier.

AN overnight express train heading for Austria burst into flames near a station in eastern France yesterday, killing 12 passengers. Nine people were injured.

French authorities were today trying to identify 12 people killed when a train caught fire during an overnight journey, leaving at least nine others injured.

An overnight express train heading for Austria burst into flames near a station in eastern France today, killing 12 passengers. Nine people were injured.

Four years after Germany’s worst ever train crash killed 101 people, the trial of three engineers began today.

Two passenger trains have crashed head-on in Germany, injuring 90 people.