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Gambir Station

Gambir Station (Stasiun Gambir, code GMR) is a railway station in Central Jakarta, Indonesia, opened in 1871 as Weltevreden Station and rebuilt elevated in 1992, serving as the capital's main long-distance train gateway.

Gangnam Station

Gangnam Station (강남역) is a subway station in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, served by Line 2 and the Shinbundang Line, and was Seoul Metro's busiest station from 1997 to 2022.

Gare d'Orsay

The Gare d'Orsay is a former railway station on Paris's Left Bank, built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle and now home to the Musée d'Orsay.

Gare de l'Est

Gare de l'Est, also called Paris Est, is one of Paris's six main-line railway stations, opened in 1849 and serving eastern France, Luxembourg, and Germany.

Gare de Lyon

Gare de Lyon, one of Paris's six mainline railway stations in the 12th arrondissement, is the terminus for TGV services to Lyon, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain.

Gare du Nord

Gare du Nord, also called Gare de Paris-Nord, is the Paris terminus for trains to northern France, London, Brussels, and Amsterdam, and the busiest station in Europe.

Gare Montparnasse

Gare Montparnasse is one of Paris's six mainline railway termini, opened in 1840 and rebuilt in 1969, serving western and southwestern France including Brittany, Bordeaux, and Toulouse.

Gare Saint-Lazare

Gare Saint-Lazare is the oldest of the six large terminal railway stations of Paris, opened in 1837 and serving Normandy with about 450,000 travelers a day.

Garib Rath Express

Garib Rath Express ("poor man's chariot") is a fleet of fully air-conditioned, low-fare long-distance trains operated by Indian Railways since 2006, offering AC travel below conventional AC 3-tier fares.

Garratt locomotive

A Garratt, or Beyer-Garratt, is an articulated steam locomotive with its boiler and cab slung between two separate engine units, patented by Herbert William Garratt in 1907.

Gas turbine locomotive

A gas turbine locomotive is a locomotive powered by a gas turbine instead of a diesel engine, most often driving a generator that feeds electric traction motors.

GATX

GATX, formerly the General American Transportation Corporation, is an American railcar leasing company in Chicago founded in 1898, which also leases aircraft spare engines through a Rolls-Royce joint venture.

Gautrain

The Gautrain is an 80-kilometer rapid rail network in Gauteng province, South Africa, running between Johannesburg, Pretoria, and OR Tambo International Airport, which opened in June 2010.

GE AC4400CW

The GE AC4400CW, often written AC44CW, is a 4,400-horsepower six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive built by GE from 1993 to 2004, GE's first with AC traction and sold to over 2,800 units.

GE AC44C6M

The GE AC44C6M is a rebuilt diesel-electric freight locomotive made by converting older GE Dash 9 units from DC to AC traction, principally for Norfolk Southern since 2015.

GE AC6000CW

The GE AC6000CW, also known as the GE C60AC, is a 6,000-horsepower, six-axle AC-traction diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation from 1995 to 2001, bought in quantity only by Union Pacific and CSX.

GE ES44AC

The GE ES44AC is a six-axle, 4,400-horsepower AC-traction diesel-electric freight locomotive in GE's Evolution Series, successor to the AC4400CW, built from 2002 to 2019 with about 3,700 units sold.

GE Evolution Series

The GE Evolution Series, also known as the Evolution locomotive or GEVO, is a family of six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotives built by GE Transportation since 2005.

GE Genesis

GE Genesis is a series of passenger diesel-electric locomotives built by GE Transportation between 1992 and 2001 for Amtrak, Metro-North, and VIA Rail, with over 300 units produced.

Geared steam locomotive

A geared steam locomotive sends cylinder power to its wheels through a line shaft and reduction gears instead of drive rods, developed in America for logging and mining.

Geismar (company)

Geismar, formally Geismar Rail Industry Technologies & Services (GRITS) since 2025, is a French manufacturer of railway track installation and maintenance equipment founded in 1924.

Gemini Trains

Gemini Trains is a British start-up train operator announced in 2025, chaired by Lord Tony Berkeley, that plans to challenge Eurostar with open-access high-speed services to Paris and Brussels from 2029.

George Pullman

George Mortimer Pullman (1831–1897) was an American industrialist who designed the Pullman sleeping car, founded the Pullman Palace Car Company, and built the company town of Pullman.

German locomotive numbering and classification

German locomotive numbering and classification, also known as the DRG renumbering plan, is the system German state railways use to assign class and running numbers to locomotives.

German Train Drivers' Union

The German Train Drivers' Union (Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer), founded in 1867, is Germany's oldest occupational union, representing most locomotive drivers and known for strikes that won it an independent collective agreement in 2008.

Getlink

Getlink, formerly Groupe Eurotunnel, is a French public company listed on Euronext Paris that holds the concession to operate the Channel Tunnel between Folkestone and Calais until 2086.

Ghaziabad–Jewar Regional Rapid Transit System

The Ghaziabad–Jewar Regional Rapid Transit System is a proposed Namo Bharat RRTS corridor connecting Noida International Airport at Jewar with Ghaziabad station in the Delhi NCR.

Ghost station

A ghost station (Geisterbahnhof, plural Geisterbahnhöfe) is a structurally intact railway or metro station with no passenger service, including Berlin's sixteen sealed Cold War stations.

Glasgow Shields Road TMD

Glasgow Shields Road TMD, also called Shields Depot, is a railway electric traction maintenance depot in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1967 to serve the electrified suburban network.

Glasgow Subway

The Glasgow Subway, also called the Glasgow Underground and nicknamed the Clockwork Orange, is a 10 mile underground metro loop in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1896.