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Anand Vihar Terminal railway station (आनंद विहार टर्मिनल रेलवे स्टेशन)
Anand Vihar Terminal railway station (code ANVT) is a Northern Railway terminal station in East Delhi, inaugurated in December 2009 to relieve congestion at New Delhi and Old Delhi.
Angels Flight
Angels Flight Railway is a landmark funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 1901 to carry passengers up Bunker Hill and billed as the world's shortest railway.
Angle Lake station
Angle Lake station is an elevated light rail station in SeaTac, Washington, serving Sound Transit's Link 1 Line; it opened in September 2016 near the Alaska Airlines headquarters.
Antofagasta–Bolivia Railway
The Antofagasta–Bolivia Railway (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia, FCAB) is a Chilean railway from the port of Antofagasta across the Andes into Bolivia, inaugurated in 1889.
Apennine Base Tunnel
The Apennine Base Tunnel (Italian: Grande Galleria dell'Appennino) is an 18.5 km double-track railway tunnel carrying the Bologna–Florence line under the Apennines, opened in 1934.
Aqua Line (Mumbai Metro)
The Aqua Line, or Mumbai Metro Line 3, is Mumbai's first underground metro, a 33.5-km line from Cuffe Parade to Aarey fully opened in 2025.
Armoured train
An armored train, known in German as a Panzerzug, is an armored, gun-armed railway train, first built in 1848 and used most heavily in the Russian Civil War.
Articulated locomotive
An articulated locomotive, or articulated steam locomotive, is a steam locomotive whose driving wheels are split between two or more hinged sections, letting a very long engine negotiate curves.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) is a British trade union founded in Leeds in 1880 that represents about 96 percent of train drivers in Britain.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen v United Kingdom
ASLEF v United Kingdom is a 2007 European Court of Human Rights ruling that UK law barred a train drivers' union from expelling a British National Party member.
Association of American Railroads
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing U.S. freight railroads since 1934, setting safety and interchange standards for North American rail.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often called the Santa Fe, was an American Class I railroad chartered in Kansas in 1859 that served the Southwest.
Athens Metro (Μετρό Αθήνας)
The Athens Metro (Μετρό Αθήνας) is the rapid transit system serving Athens and Piraeus, Greece, with Lines 2 and 3 opening underground in January 2000.
Atlantic (B&O locomotive)
The Atlantic was a 0-4-0 grasshopper steam locomotive built in 1832 for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, which it served as its first mainline locomotive.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American Class I railroad, headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, that ran from Richmond, Virginia, to Tampa, Florida from 1900 to 1967.
Atlantic Terminal
Atlantic Terminal, formerly Flatbush Avenue, is the western terminal of the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in Downtown Brooklyn, connected to the Barclays Center subway complex.
Atmospheric railway
The atmospheric railway, or pneumatic railway, is a railway where trains are pushed by air pressure on a piston in a tube between the rails, tried in the 1840s.
Atocha station
Atocha station, long known as the Estación del Mediodía, is Madrid's principal railway complex, opened in 1851 and known for its indoor tropical garden under a vast 1892 iron roof.
Aurizon
Aurizon, formerly QR National, is Australia's largest rail freight operator, hauling over 250 million tonnes of commodities annually and managing more than 5,100 kilometers of track.
Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees
The Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees (AFULE) is an Australian trade union representing traincrew in Queensland, tracing its origins to an 1861 drivers' association.
Australian locomotive classification
Australian locomotive classification is the letter, number, and combined schemes the separate state and Commonwealth railways used to identify locomotives, notably NSWGR's letter-and-number classes and Commonwealth Railways' wheel-arrangement letters.
Auto Train
Auto Train, also known as Amtrak Auto Train, is a daily Amtrak overnight service carrying passengers and their vehicles between Lorton, Virginia, and Sanford, Florida, skipping about 900 miles of Interstate 95 driving.
Automatic train control (Shinkansen)
Automatic train control (ATC) on the Shinkansen is the cab-signaling system that supervises speed and brakes trains automatically, running on all Shinkansen lines since 1964.
Automatic train operation
Automatic train operation (ATO) is the automated control of a train's acceleration, braking, and station stopping, graded into degrees of automation up to fully unattended operation.
Automatic train protection
Automatic train protection (ATP) is a railway safety system that continuously monitors train speed and position and automatically applies the brakes when limits are exceeded.
Automatic train stop
Automatic train stop (ATS) is a railway safety system, standard in Japan, that automatically applies a train's brakes; the same equipment overseas is generally called automatic train protection (ATP).
Automatic Warning System
The Automatic Warning System (AWS) is the British railway cab-warning system, national on the UK main line since the 1950s, that brakes a train if its driver ignores a signal warning.
Automatische treinbeïnvloeding
Automatische treinbeïnvloeding (ATB) is the national automatic train protection system of the Netherlands, which automatically brakes trains that exceed the permitted speed or fail to slow down.
Avadh Assam Express (अवध असम एक्सप्रेस)
The Avadh Assam Express (अवध असम एक्सप्रेस) is a daily express train of Indian Railways, numbered 15909/15910 and operated by the Northeast Frontier Railway, running between Dibrugarh in Assam and Lalgarh Junction in Rajasthan.
Avanti West Coast
Avanti West Coast is a British train operating company running West Coast Main Line services from London Euston since December 2019, owned by FirstGroup and Trenitalia.