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Rail transport in Iran
Rail transport in Iran is the national railway system, a 10,500 km standard-gauge network run by RAI, anchored by the UNESCO-listed Trans-Iranian Railway from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Rail transport in Japan
Rail transport in Japan is a network of high-speed Shinkansen lines, dense urban commuter systems, and freight services that carried 81.8 percent of domestic passenger-kilometers in fiscal 2020, beginning with the first railway in 1872.
Rail transport in Taiwan
Rail transport in Taiwan is the island's railway system, begun in 1887, now a fully electrified round-the-island network, a 350 km high-speed line, and urban metro systems.
Rail transport modelling
Rail transport modelling: the hobby of building miniature railways (layout planners SCARM, AnyRail; DCC control via JMRI), and, in professional use, macroscopic/microscopic modelling of real railway timetables and capacity.
Rail transportation in the United States
Rail transportation in the United States is a largely private freight network of nearly 140,000 route miles, plus Amtrak passenger service and urban transit, regulated by the Federal Railroad Administration.
Rail vehicle maintenance regimes
Rail vehicle maintenance regimes schedule railway rolling stock upkeep by mileage, by time, or by condition monitoring; in the EU every vehicle must belong to an entity in charge of maintenance.
Rail yard
A rail yard, also called a railroad yard or classification yard, is a complex of tracks where trains are received, sorted by destination, assembled, serviced, and dispatched.
Railbus
A railbus is a lightweight passenger railway vehicle resembling a bus, often built with road-bus components, developed to serve little-used branch lines at low cost.
Railcar
A railcar, or rail motor, is a self-propelled railway vehicle carrying passengers or freight without a separate locomotive, either as a single unit or part of a multiple unit.
Railcar mover
A railcar mover is a self-propelled, usually bi-modal road-rail vehicle that travels on tires and rails to move railroad cars short distances without a locomotive, in industrial yards and docks.
Railfan
A railfan, also called a trainspotter or railroad buff, is a person with a recreational interest in trains and rail transport, expressed through photography, radio scanning, modeling, and preserving rolling stock.
Railgun
A railgun, also known as an electromagnetic railgun, is an electromagnetic launcher that accelerates a conductive projectile along two parallel rails, reaching speeds of 2 to 3 km/s.
Railmotor
A railmotor, also written rail motor, is a self-propelled railway passenger coach with its steam engine built into the body, pioneered in Britain from the 1840s.
Railroad car
A railroad car, also called a railway carriage, wagon, or railcar, is a non-self-propelled railway vehicle designed to carry freight, passengers, or specialized equipment, hauled by one or more locomotives.
Railroad switch
A railroad switch, also called a turnout or, in British usage, points, is a mechanical installation that moves tapered rails to direct a train from one track onto another.
Railroad tie
A railroad tie, also called a railway sleeper, is a transverse support laid on ballast beneath two rails, holding them at gauge and spreading wheel loads into the roadbed.
Railtrack
Railtrack was the British company that owned and managed most of Britain's railway infrastructure, including track, signaling, and stations, from 1994 until it entered administration in 2001.
Railway (deployment platform)
Railway is a platform-as-a-service company founded in 2020 by Jake Cooper that deploys applications from GitHub, a local directory, or a Docker image without server configuration, billed by the second.
Railway accident
A railway accident, also called a train wreck or railroad accident, is an unintended rail operation event causing injuries or damage to trains, track, and signals, most often from human error.
Railway air brake
The railway air brake, also called the Westinghouse brake, is a train braking system using compressed air, patented in its fail-safe automatic form by George Westinghouse in 1872.
Railway brake
A railway brake, also called a train brake, is the system that slows and stops a train, most often the fail-safe automatic air brake George Westinghouse patented in 1873.
Railway bridge failures
A railway bridge failure is the loss of structural function of a bridge carrying rail traffic, caused by flood scour, fatigue cracks, collisions, and material degradation.
Railway bridges and viaducts by country
Railway bridges and viaducts by country is a country-by-country survey of notable rail bridges, from the record 1,408 m Yavuz Sultan Selim span to the world's highest bridges in China.
Railway bridges of North American Class I railroads
The railway bridges of North American Class I railroads are privately owned bridges inspected at least annually under federal rules; CSX reports more than 13,800 and CN 7,250.
Railway coupling
Railway coupling, also called railroad coupling, is the mechanism connecting rail vehicles and transmitting tractive and braking forces, ranging from manual buffer-and-screw couplings to the knuckle coupler and automatic couplers.
Railway crossing sign
A railway crossing sign is a traffic control device at highway-rail grade crossings warning road traffic to yield to trains; in the United States it is the X-shaped Crossbuck.
Railway electrification
Railway electrification supplies trains with power through overhead lines or conductor rails, so trains need not carry fuel, and 35% of the world's network was electrified in 2022.
Railway ferry
A railway ferry, also called a train ferry, is a ship with tracks on its deck that carries railway vehicles across water where bridges or tunnels are impractical.
Railway gun
A railway gun is heavy artillery mounted on a railway carriage, first used in the American Civil War and most widely in World War I.
Railway platform
A railway platform, or train platform, is a raised paved area alongside a track at a station from which passengers board and alight trains, mainly in island and side forms.