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Glashallen
Glashallen (Glass Hall) is the 130-metre glass-and-steel terminal at Malmö Central Station, Sweden, built 2008–2010 by NCC for Jernhusen to link the station with the City Tunnel's underground Malmö C Nedre platforms; inaugurated 1 November 2010, with a stainless steel wire-supported glass facade and the 2013 Malmö urban planning prize.
Glossary of rail transport terms
A glossary of rail transport terms, also known as rail terminology, defines the vocabulary of railways, including rolling stock, bogie, gauge, and the railroad-versus-railway regional split.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, trading as the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, is a volunteer-operated heritage railway running 14 miles through the Cotswolds between Cheltenham Racecourse and Broadway.
GO Transit
GO Transit, short for Government of Ontario Transit, is the regional public transit service for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area, operating commuter rail and bus services since 1967.
Godavari Bridge
The Godavari Bridge, also known as the Kovvur–Rajahmundry Bridge, is a truss rail-cum-road bridge carrying the Chennai–Howrah railway line across the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh, India, inaugurated in 1974.
Gold Line (Dubai Metro)
The Gold Line is a planned 42-kilometer, 18-station line of the Dubai Metro, approved in 2026, and Dubai's first fully underground metro line, opening in 2032.
Gold Runner
The Gold Runner, formerly Amtrak San Joaquins, is a state-supported passenger rail service run by Amtrak between Oakland and Bakersfield through California's San Joaquin Valley, renamed in 2025.
Golden Arrow (train)
The Golden Arrow was a luxury all-Pullman boat train from London Victoria to the Channel ports, linking with the French Flèche d'Or to Paris from 1929.
Golden Chariot
The Golden Chariot is a luxury tourist train serving South India, named for the Stone Chariot at Hampi and run from Bengaluru since 2008 by KSTDC with IRCTC.
Golden spike
The golden spike is a ceremonial 17.6-carat gold railroad spike driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, to mark the completion of the first US transcontinental railroad.
Gondola (rail)
A gondola is an open-top freight railcar with fixed sides and end doors or solid floor, ranking second to boxcars in ubiquity and serving heavy industry.
Gorakhpur Junction railway station
Gorakhpur Junction railway station is a major station in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, headquarters of the North Eastern Railway, which held the world's longest railway platform record.
Gotthard Base Tunnel
The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a 57 km twin-tube railway tunnel under the Swiss Alps, the world's longest, running from Erstfeld to Bodio and opened in 2016.
Gotthard Railway
The Gotthard Railway is the Swiss north–south railway across the Alps, opened in 1882 with a 15 km summit tunnel and supplemented since 2016 by the world's longest railway tunnel.
Grade of Automation
Grade of Automation (GoA) is a five-level classification of how much of train operation is automated rather than done by staff, defined in IEC 62290-1:2014 for metros, from manual GoA0 to unattended GoA4.
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal, also known as Grand Central Station, is a commuter rail terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, opened in 1913.
Grand Paris Express
The Grand Paris Express is a 200-kilometer automated metro under construction around Paris, adding lines 15, 16, 17, and 18 with 68 stations from 2026 onward.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTP) was a Canadian railway company, incorporated in 1903, built west from Winnipeg to a new Pacific terminus at Prince Rupert.
Grand Trunk Railway
The Grand Trunk Railway was a Canadian railway company incorporated in 1852, which built the Toronto–Montreal main line and was absorbed into Canadian National in 1923.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, reporting mark GTW, is a Michigan freight railroad wholly owned by Canadian National, formed in 1928 to consolidate ten Grand Trunk companies.
Great Central Railway
The Great Central Railway (GCR) was a British railway company, formed in 1897 by renaming the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, whose 1899 London Extension reached Marylebone.
Great Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway was a British railway company, incorporated in 1862, that operated a near-monopoly network across East Anglia and eastern London until absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) was a British-era railway company in India whose Bombay to Thane line carried the subcontinent's first passenger train in 1853.
Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
The Great Northern Railway was a transcontinental railroad running from St. Paul to Seattle, created by James J. Hill in 1889 and merged into Burlington Northern in 1970.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was a nationwide strike that began on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and was the first national strike in US history.
Great Southern (train)
The Great Southern is a luxury tourist train operated by Journey Beyond between Brisbane and Adelaide, launched in 2019 as Australia's summer counterpart to The Ghan.
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway is the name of two connected British railway enterprises: the historic company incorporated in 1835 and today's FirstGroup train operator from London Paddington.
Great Western Railway (train operating company)
Great Western Railway, formerly First Great Western, is a British train operating company running services from London Paddington to South Wales and the West Country.
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives were engines of independent British companies taken over by the GWR between the 1870s and the 1923 Grouping, then renumbered into its own series.
Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia is a British train operating company running passenger services from London Liverpool Street across East Anglia, including the Stansted Express, publicly owned since October 2025.