Outline of 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.
- Applied technology
Essence of rail transport
Types of railway/railroad
- Fell mountain railway system
- Heavy rail
- Heritage railway
- Medium-capacity rail system/light rapid transit/light metro/premetro
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Plateway
- Rack railway
- Tourist railroad
- Wagonway
Urban rail transport, general types
- Urban rail transit – overview
- Rapid transit
- Elevated rail
- Cable railway
- Funicular (or inclined railway)
- Commuter rail
- Interurban
- Light rail
- 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
Railway infrastructure
Permanent way
Trackwork and track structures
Running lines
Track (Running lines)
Rail junctions
Railway station track layouts
Signalling and safety
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
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
Rail transport organizations
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
- Glossary of rail transport terms
- List of heritage railways
- List of named passenger trains
- List of rail gauges
- List of railway industry occupations
- List of railway companies
- List of railway roundhouses
- List of suburban and commuter rail systems
- Megaproject
- Mine railway
- Railway Technical Centre
References
External links
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