All articles by Adele Berti

Flight-shaming: can railroads replace flying?

Sweden may well be a world leader when it comes to successful recycling schemes and ecological buildings, but according to…
Could the ‘metroisation’ of south London put an end to commuting misery?

Every day, the average London commuter spends about 74 minutes squeezed into a tight space on a packed train, tube…
Is the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway still viable?

For more than two decades, the European Union, France and Italy have been working on a colossal infrastructure project to…
A guide to London’s most stressful tube stations

Ask any Londoner what they think of the Underground, and they’ll say it’s the beating heart of the capital’s economic…
In pictures: tracing metros from above

Constantly running underneath the foundations of a city, metro systems are intriguing yet disorienting worlds that have existed since the…

Saving France’s rural railways: is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Every day, France’s world-famous Trains à Grande Vitesse (TGV) run up and down the country connecting major centres to each…
Bon voyage: a look at popular train fare concepts around the world

Citymapper’s unlimited London pass Having been launched in early 2019, public transit app Citymapper’s pass is bidding to radically change…
Does hydrail work in the UK? The view from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

The railway industry is certainly not the biggest polluter in the world – especially when compared to road transport or…
Rail exports: which countries export the best train technologies?

The history of the railway dates back over 2,000 years, with primitive concepts of tracked transport going back to the…
Timeline: profiling the evolution of China’s high-speed rail network

1997 – 2007: Early high-speed plans and works In the late 1990s, China was facing a huge increase in capacity…