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Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA), also called Cleveland RTA, is the public transit agency serving Cleveland, Ohio, and Cuyahoga County, operating bus, rapid transit, and paratransit service since 1975.

Green Line (MBTA)

The Green Line is a light rail line of the MBTA in Boston, running four branches over about 23 miles and descended from America's first subway, opened in 1897.

Green Line (Mumbai Metro)

The Mumbai Metro Green Line is the designation of Lines 4 and 4A, a 32.32 km fully elevated corridor under construction from Wadala in central Mumbai to Kasarvadavali in Thane.

Green Line (Namma Metro)

The Green Line, also called the Namma Metro Green Line, is the North-South corridor (Line 2) of Bengaluru's metro, running from Madavara to Silk Institute.

Grey Line (Namma Metro)

The Grey Line is a planned 12.5 km elevated corridor of Namma Metro in Bengaluru, India, running from Hosahalli to Kadabagere with 9 stations, approved in 2024.

GSM-R

GSM-R (GSM-Railway) is a railway digital radio communication system based on the GSM standard, used for driver and traffic control communication, emergency calls, and train control data.

GTS Rail Operations

GTS Rail Operations Limited is a British rail company operating the Elizabeth line in London since May 2025, owned by the Go-Ahead Group, Tokyo Metro, and Sumitomo Corporation.

Gulf Railway

The Gulf Railway, also called the GCC Railway (مشروع سكة حديد دول مجلس التعاون), is a planned rail network linking all six Gulf Cooperation Council states, targeted for full operation in December 2030.

GWR 4073 Class

The GWR 4073 Class, or Castle class, was a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway, built from 1923.

GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall

GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall is a preserved Great Western Railway Hall Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built at Swindon Works in 1937 and withdrawn by British Railways in 1963.

GWR 5700 Class

The GWR 5700 Class, often written 57xx, is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway and built from 1929 to 1950.

GWR locomotive numbering and classification

The GWR locomotive numbering and classification system, used by the Great Western Railway until its 1948 nationalisation, evolved from simple sequential numbering to hundred-number blocks.

GWR railcars

The GWR railcars, nicknamed the "flying bananas", were 38 streamlined diesel railcars built for the Great Western Railway between 1934 and 1941, serving into the 1960s.

Gyeongbu Line

The Gyeongbu Line (경부선) is the trunk railway of South Korea, running 441.7 km from Seoul to Busan. Opened in 1905, it carries KTX high-speed trains today.

Gyeongin Line

The Gyeongin Line (경인선) is the 27 km railway between Guro Station in Seoul and Incheon Station, opened in 1899 as the first railway built in Korea.

Gyeongui Line

The Gyeongui Line (경의선; 京義線) is a Korean railway opened in 1906 from Seoul to Sinuiju, later severed by Korea's division; its southern section runs from Seoul to Dorasan.

Hamburger Hochbahn

Hamburger Hochbahn AG, also known as HOCHBAHN, is Hamburg's principal public transport operator, founded in 1911 to run the city's first elevated and underground railway.

Handcar

A handcar, also known as a pump trolley, is a small railroad vehicle powered by passengers pumping a lever, used mainly for track inspection and repair.

Hankyu Corporation

Hankyu Corporation (阪急電鉄) is a Japanese private railway company founded by Ichizo Kobayashi in 1907, operating a 143.6 km network radiating from Osaka-Umeda to Kobe, Takarazuka, and Kyoto.

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. (阪急阪神ホールディングス株式会社) is a Japanese holding company in Osaka, formed in 2006, that owns the Hankyu and Hanshin railway groups and businesses in real estate and entertainment.

Hanomag

Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG) was a German engineering company in Hannover founded in 1835, known for steam locomotives, early small cars, tractors, trucks, and construction machinery.

Hanseong Electric Tram

The Hanseong Electric Tram (한성 전차) was the electric streetcar service opened in Seoul, then Hanseong, in 1899, the first railway on the Korean Peninsula, which ran for nearly seventy years until its closure in 1968.

Hanzōmon Line (半蔵門線)

The Hanzōmon Line (半蔵門線), operated by Tokyo Metro, is a 16.8 km underground subway line in Tokyo from Shibuya to Oshiage, with through service onto the Tokyu Den-en-toshi and Tobu Isesaki lines.

Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)

The Harbour line is a suburban railway corridor of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, running from CSMT to Vadala Road and branching to Goregaon and Panvel, serving 25 stations.

Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash

The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, also called the Harrow rail crash, was a 1952 three-train collision in London that killed 112 people, Britain's worst peacetime rail crash.

Haruka (train)

Haruka (はるか) is a limited express train operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) between Kansai International Airport and Kyoto, debuting on 4 September 1994.

Hauptbahnhof

Hauptbahnhof, abbreviated Hbf, is the German term for a city's principal railway station, the main node for long-distance and regional passenger traffic in Germany and Austria.

Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station (हज़रत निज़ामुद्दीन रेलवे स्टेशन)

Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, also known as Nizamuddin Railway Station, is one of Delhi's main long-distance terminals, opened in 1926 and handling about 250 trains a day.

Headhouse

A headhouse is the portion of a railway terminal without tracks and platforms, holding ticket counters, waiting rooms, and baggage facilities; the term also covers subway and ventilation structures.

Headway (transport)

In transport, headway is the time or distance separating consecutive vehicles running on the same line in the same direction, central to railway capacity planning.