Outline of rail transport
Overview of and topical guide to rail transport
Rail transport – means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast.
What type of thing is rail transport?
Rail transport can be described as all of the following:
- Technology – making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures.
- Applied technology
- Transport – movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
- Rapid transit
- Transport – movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
- Applied technology
Essence of rail transport
- Railway systems engineering
- Rail transport operations
- List of railway industry occupations
- Passenger train
- Rail freight transport
Types of railway/railroad
- Fell mountain railway system
- Heavy rail
- Inter-city rail
- High-speed rail
- Higher-speed rail
- Heritage railway
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Plateway
- Rack railway
- Tourist railroad
- Wagonway
- Industrial railway
Urban rail transport, general types
- Urban rail transit – overview
- Rapid transit
- Elevated railway
- Cable railway
- Funicular (or inclined railway)
- Regional rail
- Commuter rail
- Interurban
- Light rail
- Medium-capacity rail system/light rapid transit/light metro/premetro
- People mover
- Tramway (or streetcar)
History of rail transport
- Chronological list: Lists of rail transport events by year
- Lists of rail accidents
- List of rail accidents (2000–present)
- Railroad chronometer
- Railway Mail Service (USA)
- Railway Mania (UK)
- Railway Express Agency (USA)
Vehicles
Trains
- Train
- Parts
- Bogie
- Wheelset
- Rolling stock
- Parts
- Tram
- Tram-train
Locomotives
Railway infrastructure
Permanent way
- Axe ties
- Baulk road
- Breather switch
- Cant
- Clip and scotch
- Datenail
- Fishplate
- Ladder track
- Minimum radius
- Permanent way (current)
- Permanent way (history)
- Rail fastening system
- Rail profile
- Railroad tie (sleeper)
- Track ballast
- Track transition curve
Trackwork and track structures
- Balloon loop
- Classification yard
- Gauntlet track
- Junction
- Overhead lines
- Passing loop
- Rail track
- Rail yard
- Railroad switch
- Railway electrification system
- Railway turntable
- Siding
- Track gauge
- Track pan
- Tramway track
- Water crane
- Wye
Railway track layouts
Running lines
Track (Running lines)
- Single track
- Passing loop
- Double track
- Quadruple track
- Crossover
Rail sidings
Rail sidings
Rail junctions
Rail junctions
- Flying junction
- Level junction
- Double junction
- Facing and trailing
- Grand union
- Wye
- Switch / turnout / points
- Swingnose crossing
- Level crossing
Railway station track layouts
- Side platform
- Island platform
- Bay platform
- Split platform
- Terminal station
- Balloon loop
- Spanish solution
- Cross-platform interchange
- Interchange station
Hillclimbing
Hillclimbing
- Horseshoe curve
- Zig Zag / Switchback
- Spiral
Signalling and safety
- Block post
- Buffer stop
- Catch points
- Integrated Electronic Control Centre
- Interlocking
- Level crossing
- Loading gauge
- Railway signal
- Railway signalling
- Signalling control
- Structure gauge
Buildings
Rail transport by region
- Rail transport by country
- Rail transport in Argentina
- Rail transport in Australia
- Rail transport in Belgium
- Rail transport in Brazil
- Rail transport in Canada
- Rail transport in China
- Rail transport in France
- Rail transport in Germany
- Rail transport in Hong Kong
- Rail transport in India
- Rail transport in Italy
- Rail transport in Japan
- Rail transport in Kazakhstan
- Rail transport in Mexico
- Rail transport in Namibia
- Rail transport in the Netherlands
- Rail transport in New Zealand
- Rail transport in Poland
- Rail transport in Russia
- Rail transport in South Africa
- Rail transport in South Korea
- Rail transport in Spain
- Rail transport in Taiwan
- Rail transport in Ukraine
- Rail transport in the United Kingdom
- Rail transportation in the United States
- List of countries by rail transport network size
- List of countries by rail usage
Rail transport politics
- Rail transport laws
- Railways Act (United Kingdom railway legislation)
- Railway nationalization
- Rail transport agencies
- Railway Procurement Agency (Ireland)
Rail culture
- Rail trail
- Rail transport modelling
- Rail usage statistics by country
- Railfan
- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
- Rail directions
- Usage of the terms railroad and railway
- Passenger rail terminology
General concepts
- Conductor (rail)
- Rail pass
- Train ticket
- Transit pass
Rail transport organizations
- National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
- International Association of Railway Operations Research
- International Union of Railways
Rail transport publications
Persons influential in rail transport
- List of people associated with rail transport
- George Stephenson (1781–1848)
- Robert Stephenson (1803–1859)
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859)
- Thomas Brassey (1805–1870)
See also
References
External links
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