While the railway industry has been largely nationalised or franchise-owned, crowdfunding as a means to fund rail projects is far from common. From electric trains to traveller apps, Varsha Saraogi explores a few successful and less successful crowdfunded initiatives around the world. German start-up company launched high-speed train, Locomore German rail operator Locomore runs a high-speed, inter-city, open access service between four metropolitan areas - Stuttgart, Rhine-Neckar, Frankfurt Rhine-Main and
