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Coaches of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The coaches of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were the passenger coaching stock built by the LMS from 1923 until nationalisation in 1948, in three distinct design periods.
Coast Starlight
The Coast Starlight is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train running between Los Angeles and Seattle along the Pacific coast since 1971, offering sleeping cars and business class.
Coastal Pacific (train)
The Coastal Pacific is a seasonal scenic train in New Zealand's South Island, running 348 km from Christchurch to Picton via Kaikōura and Blenheim, timed to connect with the Cook Strait ferry.
Columbian (locomotive)
The Columbian was a 2-4-2 steam locomotive wheel arrangement, named for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and best known from a single experimental Baldwin compound.
Comeng (train)
Comeng is the common name for Melbourne's suburban electric multiple unit fleet built by Commonwealth Engineering in Dandenong, in service from 1982 and replaced by X'Trapolis 2.0 trains by about 2030.
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.
Commuter rail
Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is regional passenger train service linking suburbs with a central city, with longer trains, fewer stops, and peak-hour schedules.
Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée
The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) was a French railway company operating Paris–Marseille from 1857 until 1938.
Compagnie des Wagons-Lits
Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, also known as Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, is a Belgian-founded company that operated sleeping and dining cars on other countries' railways from 1876, founded by Georges Nagelmackers.
Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans
The Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO), often called the Paris–Orléans or Compagnie d'Orléans, was a French railway company founded in 1838.
Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro
The Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro was a Brazilian railway founded in 1868 by coffee planters, linking Jundiaí to the interior of São Paulo until it merged into FEPASA in 1971.
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.
Condensing steam locomotive
A condensing steam locomotive, or condenser locomotive, reuses its water by condensing exhaust steam instead of venting it, extending range where boiler water was scarce.
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.
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, also known as Grupo CAF, is a Spanish manufacturer of trains, trams, metros, and buses, headquartered in Beasain in the Basque Country.
Container Corporation of India
Container Corporation of India, commonly known as CONCOR, is an Indian public sector logistics company under the Ministry of Railways, incorporated in 1988 and operating nationwide container terminals.
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.
Copenhagen Metro
The Copenhagen Metro, also known as Københavns metro, is a driverless rapid transit system serving Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, opened in 2002 with four lines, M1 through M4.
Corail (train)
Corail, from confort sur rail, is a family of intercity passenger coaches built for the French national railway SNCF from 1975, introducing air conditioning to second class in France.
CR400AF
The CR400AF, part of the Fuxing (复兴号) family, is a Chinese high-speed train developed by CRRC and rated for 350 km/h, entering service on the Beijing–Shanghai line in 2017.
CR400BF
The CR400BF (复兴号 CR400BF) is a Chinese high-speed electric multiple unit developed by CRRC Changchun under the Fuxing brand, running at 350 km/h on the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway since 2017.
Crewe Works
Crewe Works, also known as Crewe railway works, is a railway engineering works in Crewe, Cheshire, founded in 1840; once Britain's largest locomotive works, it is now Alstom's UK heavy-overhaul base.
CRH2
The CRH2 is a Chinese 200–250 km/h electric multiple unit family derived by Kawasaki Heavy Industries from the Shinkansen E2-1000 and localized by CSR Qingdao Sifang from 2004.
CRH3
The CRH3 is a family of Chinese high-speed trains derived from the Siemens Velaro and built by CRRC Tangshan, entering service between Beijing and Tianjin in 2008 at 350 km/h.
CRH380A
The CRH380A is a Chinese high-speed train built by CSR Qingdao Sifang for 380 km/h operation, which entered service in 2010 and reached 486.1 km/h in a trial run.
Cross-platform interchange
A cross-platform interchange is a rail station layout where trains on different lines stop on the same platform, letting passengers transfer by simply walking across.
CrossCountry
CrossCountry, also known as Arriva CrossCountry, is a British train operating company running long-distance intercity services from Aberdeen to Penzance and Stansted to Cardiff, without serving London.
Crossrail 2
Crossrail 2, also known as the Chelsea–Hackney Line, is a proposed railway linking Surrey to Hertfordshire through central London, promoted by Transport for London and Network Rail.
CRRC
CRRC Corporation Limited (Chinese: 中国中车) is a Chinese state-owned rolling stock manufacturer formed in 2015 by merging CNR and CSR, and the world's largest builder of locomotives and metro trains.
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.