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AVE
AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) is the brand under which Spain's state operator Renfe runs high-speed trains, launched on 21 April 1992 on the Madrid–Seville line, Spain's first high-speed railway.
Avelia Liberty
Avelia Liberty, also called NextGen Acela, is a high-speed tilting trainset built by Alstom for Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor, ordered in 2016 and entering service in 2025.
Avelia Stream
Avelia Stream is a single-deck high-speed train platform built by Alstom, covering speeds from 200 to 320 km/h with more than 500 trains operating in 15 countries.
Axle counter
An axle counter is a railway train detection system that determines whether a track section is occupied or clear by counting axles in and out at its boundaries.
B (SEPTA Metro)
The B, historically the Broad Street Line, is a rapid transit subway in Philadelphia, running under Broad Street from Fern Rock to NRG Station and opened in 1928.
B28 trainset
The B28 trainset, also known as Train B28 or Vande Bullet, is India's first indigenously built high-speed trainset, an 8-car set contracted to BEML in 2024.
Bahnbetriebswerk
A Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw) is a German railway depot at a station that provisions, inspects, cleans, and turns locomotives so they are ready for scheduled service.
Baikal Amur Mainline
The Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM; Байкало-Амурская магистраль) is a railway running north of the Trans-Siberian Railway, launched as a Soviet project in 1974 and proclaimed complete in 1984.
Bakerloo line
The Bakerloo line is a London Underground line running from Harrow & Wealdstone to Elephant & Castle; it opened in 1906 as the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.
Baldwin and Lima-Hamilton diesel locomotives
Diesel locomotives built by Baldwin and Lima-Hamilton in the United States between 1925 and 1956, including the VO-1000 switcher and Loewy-styled RF-16 sharknose, before EMD's dominance ended both lines.
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin Locomotive Works, begun as Matthias W. Baldwin's Philadelphia machine shop in 1831, was the world's largest steam locomotive builder, producing about 70,500 locomotives before 1956.
Baldwin RF-16
The Baldwin RF-16 is a 1,600-horsepower diesel-electric freight locomotive built by Baldwin between 1950 and 1953, known for its Sharknose styling and strong low-speed pulling power.
Baldwin VO-1000
The Baldwin VO-1000 is a 1,000-horsepower diesel-electric switching locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, from 1939 to 1946, with 548 built for American railroads.
Bali Metro
The Bali Metro, also known as Bali MRT or Bali Urban Subway, is a series of planned urban rail systems for southern Bali, Indonesia, none yet built.
Ballastless track
Ballastless track, also called slab track, is railway track in which the ballast bed is replaced by a solid concrete or asphalt foundation holding the rails.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) was the first common carrier railroad chartered in the United States, opened in 1827 to link Baltimore with the Ohio River.
Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel
The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel (B&P Tunnel) is a 1.4-mile railroad tunnel under West Baltimore, opened in 1873 and now the oldest tunnel on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
Baltimore Penn Station
Baltimore Penn Station, officially Pennsylvania Station and originally Union Station, is Baltimore's main passenger rail station, a 1911 Beaux-Arts landmark serving Amtrak and MARC at the city's center.
Banaras Locomotive Works
Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) is a government-owned electric locomotive manufacturer in Varanasi, India. Founded in 1961 as the Diesel Locomotive Works, it was renamed in 2020 and exports locomotives.
Bandung Station
Bandung Station (Indonesian: Stasiun Bandung), known locally as Hall Station, is the main railway station of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, opened by the Dutch in 1884.
Bangladesh Railway (বাংলাদেশ রেলওয়ে)
Bangladesh Railway (বাংলাদেশ রেলওয়ে) is the government-owned national railway of Bangladesh, running a mixed-gauge network of about 3,422 route kilometers that carried 73.59 million passengers in 2022–23.
Bank and Monument stations
Bank and Monument are a combined London Underground and Docklands Light Railway interchange in the City of London, legally one station serving five lines plus the DLR.
Bavarian S 3/6
The Bavarian S 3/6, later DRG Class 18.4, was a German express steam locomotive built in Munich from 1908 and known for hauling the Rheingold express.
Bay Area Rapid Transit
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a heavy-rail rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area, opened in 1972, with five lines and 50 stations in five counties.
Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock
Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock is the fleet of railcars used by BART in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose legacy fleet was replaced from 2018.
Beach Pneumatic Transit
Beach Pneumatic Transit, also called the Beach Pneumatic Underground Railway, was a one-block demonstration subway under Broadway in Manhattan, opened by inventor Alfred Ely Beach in 1870 as New York City's first subway.
Beeching cuts
Beeching cuts: British railway closures following Richard Beeching's 1963 report The Reshaping of British Railways, which proposed closing 2,363 stations and 4,000 miles of track; about 5,000 miles and 2,300 stations closed in the 1960s.
Beijing railway station
Beijing railway station (北京站, Běijīng Huǒchēzhàn) is a major railway station in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Opened in 1959 as one of the Ten Great Buildings, it was then China's largest passenger station.
Beijing Subway (北京地铁)
The Beijing Subway (北京地铁), also known as the Beijing Metro, is the rapid transit system of Beijing and China's first subway, opened in 1969 and grown to about 800 kilometers.
Beijing Subway rolling stock
Beijing Subway rolling stock, also called Beijing metro rolling stock, is the fleet of electric multiple-unit trains on the Beijing Subway, China's first metro, opened in 1969.