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Beijing West railway station (北京西站)
Beijing West railway station (北京西站) is a major railway station in Fengtai District, Beijing, opened in January 1996 as the terminus of the Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Kowloon lines.
Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway
The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway (京津城际铁路) is a 116.55 km high-speed railway linking Beijing and Tianjin, the first in China designed for 350 km/h. Opened in 2008, it covers the trip in about 30 minutes.
Belmond Britannic Explorer
The Belmond Britannic Explorer is a luxury sleeper train operated by Belmond in Great Britain, announced in 2024 and billed as the first luxury sleeper train in England and Wales.
Benguela Railway
The Benguela Railway, or Caminho de Ferro de Benguela, is a 1,344 km railway in Angola running from the Atlantic port of Lobito to the border town of Luau.
Bergen Line
The Bergen Line (Bergensbanen) is the 471 km electrified mainline railway between Oslo and Bergen, opened by King Haakon VII in 1909 and running across the Hardangervidda mountain plateau.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
Berlin Hauptbahnhof, also known as Berlin Central Station or Berlin Hbf, is Berlin's main railway station, opened in 2006 and described as Europe's largest crossing station.
Berlin S-Bahn
The Berlin S-Bahn is the electric urban rapid-transit railway of Berlin and Brandenburg, electrified from 1924, with 345 km of routes, 168 stations, and 16 lines.
Berlin U-Bahn
The Berlin U-Bahn, also called the Berlin Metro, is the rapid transit railway of Berlin, Germany, opened in 1902 as the first underground railway in Germany.
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) is the public transport operator of Berlin, Germany, running the U-Bahn, trams, buses, and ferries and carrying over one billion passengers a year.
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad
The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad is a freight railroad hauling iron ore and coal between Conneaut, Ohio, and Pittsburgh-area steel mills, part of Canadian National since 2004.
Best Friend of Charleston
The Best Friend of Charleston was a steam locomotive built in New York in 1830, the first in the United States to run regularly scheduled passenger service.
Bethnal Green tube station
Bethnal Green tube station is a London Underground Central line station in Bethnal Green, East London, site of a 1943 shelter crush that killed 173 people.
Betuweroute
The Betuweroute, also called the Betuwelijn, is a dedicated double-track freight railway running 160 km from Rotterdam's port to the German border at Zevenaar, opened in June 2007.
Beyer, Peacock and Company
Beyer, Peacock and Company, often called Beyer Peacock, was a Manchester locomotive manufacturer from 1854 to 1966 that built about 8,000 locomotives and invented the Beyer-Garratt.
Bilevel rail car
A bilevel rail car, called a double-decker coach in Canada, is a passenger rail car with two seating levels, carrying about 21% more passengers per car.
Blastpipe
A blastpipe is the exhaust steam nozzle in a steam locomotive's smokebox, directing spent steam up the chimney to create the draught that draws air through the fire.
Block signalling
Block signaling is a railway safety method dividing the track into blocks, so a train enters only after the preceding one has left, preventing collisions between trains.
Blue Line (Delhi Metro)
The Blue Line (Delhi Metro Blue Line) is a Delhi Metro corridor running 56.6 km from Dwarka Sector 21 to Noida Electronic City, opened in stages between 2005 and 2019.
Blue Train (South Africa)
The Blue Train is a South African luxury passenger train operated by the state-owned Transnet, running between Pretoria and Cape Town in about 27 hours over roughly 1,600 km.
Bluebell Railway
The Bluebell Railway, also known as the Bluebell Line, is a heritage railway in Sussex, England, and the world's first preserved standard gauge passenger railway.
BNSF Railway
BNSF Railway, also known as Burlington Northern Santa Fe, is an American Class I freight railroad formed in 1995 and owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2010.
Bo-Bo
Bo-Bo, also written Bo'Bo', is a UIC wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two bogies of two independently powered axles each, four driven axles in total.
Bogie
A bogie, also called a truck in North America, is the wheeled undercarriage beneath a railway vehicle, holding two or more wheelsets and carrying the body.
Boiler (power generation)
A boiler, also called a steam generator, is a pressurized vessel that converts water into high-pressure steam to drive turbines in fossil-fired and nuclear power plants.
Boiler explosion
A boiler explosion is the catastrophic rupture of a boiler or pressure vessel, in which superheated water flashes explosively into steam and throws parts outward with destructive force.
Boiler feedwater
Boiler feedwater, also called feed water, is the water supplied to a steam boiler, consisting of returned condensate plus treated make-up water, conditioned to prevent scale, corrosion, and carryover of impurities into the steam.
Bombardier Transportation
Bombardier Transportation was the rail equipment division of Canada's Bombardier Inc. and one of the world's largest makers of passenger rail cars, sold to Alstom in 2021.
Borsig
Borsig is a German engineering company founded by August Borsig in Berlin in 1837, which built 16,352 steam locomotives before turning to pressure vessels and compressors.
Bowling Green station
Bowling Green station is a New York City Subway station in Lower Manhattan, served by the 4 and 5 trains on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, opened in 1905.
Boxcar
A boxcar is an enclosed, roofed railroad freight car with side doors, the general-purpose car of the classic railroad era, now used mainly for paper, lumber, and auto parts.