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Severn Valley Railway
The Severn Valley Railway is a 16-mile heritage railway in England running steam and heritage diesel trains between Kidderminster in Worcestershire and Bridgnorth in Shropshire.
Seville Metro
The Seville Metro (Metro de Sevilla) is a light-metro network serving Seville and its metropolitan area in Andalusia, Spain, whose single 18-kilometer line opened in 2009.
Shanghai maglev train (上海磁浮示范运营线)
The Shanghai maglev train (上海磁浮示范运营线), or Shanghai Transrapid, is a high-speed magnetic levitation railway connecting Longyang Road station to Pudong International Airport, opened in 2002 as the world's first commercial maglev.
Shanghai Metro (上海地铁)
Shanghai Metro (上海地铁), also known as Shanghai Subway, is the urban rail transit system of Shanghai, China, opened in 1993 and among the longest metro networks in the world.
Shanghai railway station
Shanghai Railway Station (上海站), known to locals as the "new station," opened in 1987 in Jing'an district and serves Shanghai-Nanjing intercity high-speed and conventional trains.
Shatabdi Express (शताब्दी एक्सप्रेस)
Shatabdi Express (शताब्दी एक्सप्रेस) is a series of fully air-conditioned, fully reserved superfast day trains operated by Indian Railways, started in 1988 to mark Jawaharlal Nehru's birth centenary.
Shay locomotive
The Shay locomotive, or Shay engine, is a geared steam locomotive patented by Ephraim Shay in 1881, built by Lima Locomotive Works from 1880 to 1945 for logging and mining railroads.
Shibuya Station
Shibuya Station (渋谷駅) is a major railway station in Tokyo's Shibuya district, opened in 1885 and one of Japan's busiest hubs, serving JR East, Tokyu, Keio, and Tokyo Metro lines.
Shinjuku Station (新宿駅)
Shinjuku Station (新宿駅), Tokyo, opened 1885, is the Guinness-certified world's busiest railway station: five operators, 36 platforms, about 3.18 million daily users in fiscal 2023, JR East boardings 650,602/day.
Shinkansen (新幹線)
Shinkansen (新幹線), the Bullet Train, is Japan's high-speed intercity rail network on dedicated tracks, begun with the Tokyo–Osaka Tokaido line in 1964 and now spanning nearly 2,200 route-km.
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra railway station (श्री माता वैश्नो देवी कटरा रेलवे स्टेशन)
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra railway station (श्री माता वैश्नो देवी कटरा रेलवे स्टेशन), Katra station, is the 2014 railhead for the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir and the starting point of the Katra–Srinagar Vande Bharat Express since 2025.
Shunting (rail)
Shunting, called switching in North America, is the movement of rail vehicles within a yard to attach, detach, or rearrange them, done at scale in classification yards.
Shunting locomotive
A shunting locomotive, called a switcher or yard goat in American English, is a railway traction unit that moves wagons and carriages over short distances in yards, stations, and depots.
Shuohuang railway
The Shuohuang railway (朔黄铁路) is a 598 km electrified heavy-haul coal railway in northern China, running from Shenchinan in Shanxi to Huanghua Port in Hebei.
Sichuan-Tibet Railway
The Sichuan-Tibet Railway (川藏铁路) is a 1,543-kilometer railway under construction between Chengdu and Lhasa, with its end sections open and the middle section expected around 2030.
Side platform
A side platform is a railway station platform placed alongside one track, with the platform edge on one side of the rails only; two-track lines typically use a pair, one per direction.
Siemens ACS-64
The Siemens ACS-64, also called the Amtrak Cities Sprinter, is a double-ended electric locomotive built by Siemens Mobility for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, ordered in 2010 to replace the AEM-7 and HHP-8.
Siemens Avanto
The Siemens Avanto is a family of Siemens light rail vehicles and tram-trains, best known as the five-section tram-train SNCF used on Île-de-France tramway Line 4.
Siemens Charger
The Siemens Charger is a family of diesel-electric passenger locomotives built by Siemens Mobility for fast regional and main-line service in North America, meeting EPA Tier 4 emissions standards.
Siemens Desiro
The Siemens Desiro, or Desiro, is a family of electric and diesel multiple-unit trains for regional, commuter, and suburban service, sold by Siemens Mobility.
Siemens E40 AG-V1
The Siemens E40 AG-V1, later marketed as the E40AC, is a six-axle electric heavy-haul locomotive built by Siemens Mobility in Munich for the coal railways of Queensland, Australia.
Siemens Mobility
Siemens Mobility is the rail transport business of Siemens AG, covering rolling stock, infrastructure, and software, and the world's third-largest rolling stock maker as of 2023.
Siemens SD-100 and SD-160
The Siemens SD-100 and SD-160 are closely related articulated high-floor light rail vehicles built by Siemens from 1994, the SD-160 using AC motors; Denver operates the largest fleet.
Siemens Vectouro
Siemens Vectouro, also known as Siemens Viaggio Next Level, is a family of Siemens Mobility passenger coaches for cross-border European long-distance travel, launched in 2024 and reaching 230 km/h.
Siemens Velaro
The Siemens Velaro, known simply as Velaro, is a family of high-speed electric trains built by Siemens Mobility and derived from Germany's ICE 3, in service since 2000.
Siemens Venture
Siemens Venture is a family of single-level intercity passenger rail cars built by Siemens Mobility in Sacramento for North American operators like Brightline, Amtrak, and VIA Rail.
Siemens-Schuckert Orenstein & Koppel
Siemens-Schuckert Orenstein & Koppel, or Siemens O&K, are German-built electric subway cars that served the Buenos Aires Underground from 1934 until 2016, running on every line except B.
Siemens–Duewag U2
The Siemens–Duewag U2 is a six-axle articulated light rail vehicle built from 1968 to 1990 for Frankfurt's Stadtbahn, which launched the first modern light rail systems in North America.
Silver Fern railcars
The Silver Fern railcars are three diesel-electric railcars built in Japan in 1972 for New Zealand Railways, which ran the named Silver Fern service on the Wellington–Auckland daylight run until 1991.
Silver Line (Washington Metro)
The Silver Line, also known as Dulles Metrorail, is a 23-mile Washington Metro extension through Tysons, Reston, and Washington Dulles International Airport to Ashburn, opened in phases in 2014 and 2022.