List of railway vehicles
This is a list of all types of vehicle that can be used on a railway, either specifically for running on the rails, or for maintenance or up-keep of a railway.
General classes of railway vehicle
- Freight car
- Goods wagon
- High speed train
- Locomotive
- Multiple unit
- * Diesel Multiple Unit
- * Electric Multiple Unit
- Passenger car or coach
- private railroad car
- Railcar or Railbus
- Rail motor coach
- Road-rail vehicle
- Rolling stock
- Tilting train
- Travelling Post Office
Railway vehicles listed by usage
Traction vehicles or propelled cars
- Autorail
- Cab car or Control car
- Driving Van Trailer
- Driving Brake Standard Open
- Shunter or Switcher
- Tank locomotive
Passenger use
- Baggage car
- Bilevel car
- Coach
- Comet
- Compartment coach
- Corridor coach
- Couchette car
- Dining car
- Dome car
- Observation car
- Open coach
- Parlor car
- Sleeping car
- Slip coach
- Superliner
Freight use
Container use
- Boxmotor
- CargoSprinter
- Conflat
- Double-stack car
- Megafret
Bulk freight
- Boxcar
- Centerbeam cars
- Covered hopper
- Covered wagon
- Double door boxcar
- Flatcar
- Gondola
- Goods wagon
- Hicube boxcars
- Hopper car
- Open wagon
- Refrigerator car
- Refrigerated van
- Tank car, Tank wagon
Specialist use
- Aircraft parts car
- Autorack
- Coil car
- Lowmac
- Mineral wagon
- Quarry tub
- Schnabel car
- Slate wagon
- Stock car
Multi-modal
- Intermodal car
- Modalohr Road Trailer Carriers
- Roadrailer
- Well car
Ancillary vehicles
- Brake van
- Caboose
- Crane
- Handcar
- Roll-block wagon
- Scale test car
- Transporter wagon
- Outfit Car or a Camp Car
Military use
- Railroad plough
- Railway gun
- Troop sleeper
[Maintenance of Rail] vehicles
- Adzer/Cribber
- Anchor machine
- Ballast cleaner
- Ballast regulator
- Ballast tamper
- Clearance car
- Comboliner
- Crew car
- Dynamometer car
- Flanger
- HiRail truck
- OTM reclaimer
- Railgrinder
- Rail heater
- Rotary snowplow
- Speedswing
- Speeder
- Spike puller
- Spiker
- Spiker gauger
- Tie crane
- Tie Spacer
- Track geometry car
- Track renewal train
- TR10
- Tower cars, used to maintain overhead lines
Railway vehicles listed alphabetically
A
- Aircraft parts car
- Autorack
- Autorail
B
- Baggage car
- Ballast cleaner
- Ballast regulator
- Ballast tamper
- Bilevel car
- Boxcab
- Boxcar
- Boxmotor
- Brake van
C
- Cab car
- Caboose
- CargoSprinter
- Centerbeam cars
- Clearance car
- Coach
- Conflat
- Container car
- Coil car
- Comboliner
- Comet
- Control car
- Couchette car
- Covered hopper
- Crane
- Crew car
D
- Derrick car
- Diesel Multiple Unit
- Dining car
- Dome car
- Double door boxcar
- Double-stack car
- Draisine
- Driving Van Trailer
- Driving Brake Standard Open
- Dynamometer car
E
- Electric Multiple Unit
F
- Flatcar
- Flanger
- Freight car
G
- General Utility Van
- Gondola
- Grain car
H
- Handcar
- Hicube boxcar
- High speed train
- HiRail truck
- Hopper car
L
- Locomotive
- Lowmac
M
- Megafret
- Modalohr road trailer carriers
- Multiple unit
O
- Observation car
- Outfit Car or a Camp Car
P
- Pacer
- Passenger car
- Pendolino
- Private railroad car
R
- Rail ambulance
- Railcar
- Railgrinder
- Rail motor coach
- Railroad plough
- Railway gun
- Refrigerator car
- Revenue collection cars
- Roadrailer
- Road-rail vehicle
- Roll-block wagon
- Rotary snowplow
S
- Scale test car
- Schnabel car
- Shunter
- Slate wagon
- Sleeping car
- Slip coach
- Speeder
- Spiker
- Stock car
- Superliner
- Switcher
T
- Tamper
- Tank car
- Tank locomotive
- Tender
- Tower car
- Track geometry car
- Track renewal train
- Transporter wagon
- Travelling Post Office
- Troop sleeper