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Carajás Railway
The Carajás Railway (Estrada de Ferro Carajás, EFC) is a Brazilian railway operated by Vale that carries iron ore from Pará's Carajás mines to São Luís, Maranhão.
Central line (London Underground)
The Central line is a deep-level London Underground line running from West Ruislip to Epping, marked red on the Tube map, and opened in 1900 as the Central London Railway.
Chenab Rail Bridge
The Chenab Rail Bridge is a steel arch railway bridge over the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir, India, the world's highest railway bridge at 359 m.
Chennai–Bengaluru high-speed rail corridor
The Chennai–Bengaluru high-speed rail corridor is a proposed 306 km bullet train line in southern India, planned to link Chennai and Bengaluru in about 1 hour 13 minutes.
China-Laos Railway
The China-Laos Railway is a 1,035 km electrified railway connecting Kunming, capital of China's Yunnan province, with Vientiane, the capital of Laos, opened on December 3, 2021.
China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway
The China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway is a roughly 530-kilometer rail link under construction from Kashgar, China, through Kyrgyzstan's Tien Shan mountains to Andijan, Uzbekistan, agreed in June 2024.
Chūō Shinkansen (中央新幹線)
The Chūō Shinkansen, also called the Linear Shinkansen, is a planned superconducting maglev line from Tokyo to Osaka built by JR Central, with the Tokyo–Nagoya section projected to open in 2036.
Circle line (London Underground)
The Circle line is a London Underground service running from Hammersmith once around a loop of Central London to Edgware Road, replacing the former closed circuit in 2009.
Circle MRT line
The Circle MRT line, or Circle Line, is a fully underground, driverless metro line in Singapore linking the other MRT lines, with 33 stations over 39 km.
Classification yard
A classification yard, known in British and Indian usage as a marshalling yard, is a railway facility where freight cars are sorted by destination and reassembled into new outbound trains, often over a hump.
Communications-based train control
Communications-based train control (CBTC) is an automatic railway signaling system that locates trains by radio rather than track circuits, allowing more trains to run closer together.
Concrete sleeper
A concrete sleeper, called a concrete railroad tie in North America, is a precast concrete beam laid across ballasted track to support rails and maintain track geometry.
Conrail
Conrail, officially the Consolidated Rail Corporation, is a switching and terminal railroad owned by CSX and Norfolk Southern, operating shared freight areas in New Jersey and Detroit.
Continuous welded rail
Continuous welded rail (CWR) is railway track in which rails are welded end to end into very long strings, eliminating the bolted fishplate joints of older jointed track.
CSX 8888 incident
The CSX 8888 incident, also called the Crazy Eights incident, was a 2001 runaway freight train that rolled unmanned for 66 miles through Ohio before being stopped.
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation is a Class I freight railroad, the main subsidiary of CSX Corporation, operating about 20,000 route miles in 26 eastern U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Canada.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, popularly known as the Toy Train, is a narrow-gauge mountain railway running from Siliguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal, India, opened in 1881.
Disneyland Railroad
The Disneyland Railroad, originally the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, is a narrow-gauge steam railroad encircling Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. It opened with the park in 1955 and stops at four lands.
District line
The District line is a London Underground line running east to west across London from Upminster to Ealing Broadway, Richmond, and Wimbledon, serving 60 stations.
Downtown MRT line
The Downtown MRT line, or DTL, is a fully underground, driverless MRT in Singapore. It runs 42 km from Bukit Panjang to Expo, serving 35 stations and 11 interchanges.
Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, also known as the Seattle Transit Tunnel, is a 1.3-mile bus and light rail tunnel under downtown Seattle, opened in 1990.
Dual gauge
Dual gauge, also called mixed gauge or twin gauge, is railway track carrying trains of two different wheel gauges, usually by laying three rails, used in Australia, Spain, and Switzerland.
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, historically the Silverton Branch, is a heritage railroad carrying passengers by steam locomotive between Durango and Silverton in southwestern Colorado.
E (New York City Subway service)
The E is a 24-hour New York City Subway service between Jamaica Center, Queens, and World Trade Center, Manhattan, express in Queens and local on Eighth Avenue.
East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a British railway trunk route from London King's Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, 393 miles long, the former route of the Flying Scotsman.
East Coast Rail Link
The East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) is a 665-kilometer electrified passenger and freight railway under construction in Peninsular Malaysia, from Kota Bharu to Port Klang.
East West Rail
East West Rail is a United Kingdom railway project rebuilding a direct passenger link between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes and Bedford, reviving the old Varsity Line.
Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line
The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line, also called the Illawarra Railway Line, is Sydney Trains' T4 service from Bondi Junction to Hurstville, Waterfall, and Cronulla.
Eglinton Crosstown west extension
The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension is a 9.2-kilometer light rail extension of Line 5 Eglinton in Toronto, under construction and planned to open in 2030–31.
Electrodynamic suspension
Electrodynamic suspension (EDS) is a maglev levitation method where moving onboard magnets induce repulsive currents in guideway coils, self-stabilizing without active control and used in Japan's SCMaglev.