Outline of rail transport
Rail transport - means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast.
What type of thing is rail transport?
Rail transport can be described as all of the following:- Technology - making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures.
- * Applied technology - practical use of technology in every day life.
- ** Transport - movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
Essence of rail transport
- Railway systems engineering
- * Environmental design in rail transportation
- Rail transport operations
- * List of railway industry occupations
- Passenger train
- Rail freight transport
- * Industrial railway
Types of railway/railroad
- Mainline services
- * Inter-city rail
- * High-speed rail
- * Higher-speed rail
- * Heritage railway
- * Regional rail
- * Commuter rail
- * Mountain railway
- Plateway
- * Wagonway
- Rack railway
- * Fell mountain railway system
- Tourist railroad
Urban rail transport, general types
- Urban rail transit – overview
- *Rapid transit
- **Elevated railway
- **Monorail
- **Medium-capacity rail system/light rapid transit/light metro
- *Light rail
- **Interurban
- **Premetro
- **Stadtbahn
- **Tramway
- ***Very light rail
- Cable railway
- *Funicular
- People mover
History of rail transport
History of rail transport- Chronological list: Lists of rail transport events by year
- Lists of rail accidents
- * List of rail accidents (2000–present)
- Railroad chronometer
- Railway Mail Service
- * Railway post office
- Railway Mania
- Railway Express Agency
Vehicles
Trains
- Train
- * Parts
- ** Bogie
- ** Wheelset
- * Rolling stock
- ** Railroad car
- ** Railbus
- ** Railcar
- Tram
- * Tram-train
Locomotives
Railway infrastructure
Permanent way
- Axe ties
- Baulk road
- Breather switch
- Cant
- Clip and scotch
- Datenail
- Fishplate
- Ladder track
- Minimum radius
- Permanent way (current)
- Permanent way (history)
- Rail fastening system
- Rail profile
- Railroad tie
- Track ballast
- Track transition curve
Trackwork and track structures
- Balloon loop
- Classification yard
- Gauntlet track
- Junction
- Overhead lines
- Passing loop
- Rail track
- Rail yard
- Railroad switch
- Railway electrification system
- Railway turntable
- Siding
- Track gauge
- Track pan
- Tramway track
- Water crane
- Wye
Railway track layouts
Running lines
Track- Single track
- Passing loop
- Double track
- Quadruple track
- Crossover
Rail sidings
- Balloon loop
- Headshunt
- Rail yard
- Classification yard
Rail junctions
- Flying junction
- Level junction
- Double junction
- Facing and trailing
- Grand union
- Wye
- Switch / turnout / points
- Swingnose crossing
- Level crossing
Railway station track layouts
- Side platform
- Island platform
- Bay platform
- Split platform
- Terminal station
- Balloon loop
- Spanish solution
- Cross-platform interchange
- Interchange station
Hillclimbing
Signalling and safety
- Block post
- Buffer stop
- Catch points
- Integrated Electronic Control Centre
- Interlocking
- Level crossing
- Loading gauge
- Railway signal
- Railway signalling
- Signalling control
- Structure gauge
Buildings
Rail transport by region
- Rail transport by country
- * Rail transport in Argentina
- * Rail transport in Australia
- * Rail transport in Belgium
- * Rail transport in Brazil
- * Rail transport in Canada
- * Rail transport in China
- * Rail transport in France
- * Rail transport in Germany
- * Rail transport in Hong Kong
- * Rail transport in India
- * Rail transport in Italy
- * Rail transport in Japan
- * Rail transport in Kazakhstan
- * Rail transport in Mexico
- * Rail transport in Namibia
- * Rail transport in the Netherlands
- * Rail transport in New Zealand
- * Rail transport in Poland
- * Rail transport in Portugal
- * Rail transport in Russia
- * Rail transport in South Africa
- * Rail transport in South Korea
- * Rail transport in Spain
- * Rail transport in Taiwan
- * Rail transport in Ukraine
- * Rail transport in the United Kingdom
- * Rail transportation in the United States
- List of countries by rail transport network size
- List of countries by rail usage
Rail transport politics
- Rail transport laws
- * Esch-Cummins Act
- * Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
- * Rail Passenger Service Act
- * Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act
- * Railway Construction Act
- * Railway Labor Act
- * Railway Nationalization Act
- Railways Act
- * Railways Act 1921
- * Railways Act 1993
- * Railways Act 2005
- * Privatisation of British Rail
- * Impact of the privatisation of British Rail
- Railway nationalization
- Rail transport agencies
- * Railway Procurement Agency
Rail culture
- Rail trail
- Rail transport modelling
- Rail usage statistics by country
- Railfan
- Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
- Rail directions
- Usage of the terms railroad and railway
- Passenger rail terminology
General concepts
Rail transport organizations
- National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
- International Association of Railway Operations Research
- International Union of Railways