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
- ** Transport - movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
- *** Rapid transit
Essence of rail transport
- Railway systems engineering
- * Environmental design in rail transportation
- Rail transport operations
- List of railway industry occupations
Types of railway/railroad
- Fell mountain railway system
- Heavy rail
- Heritage railway
- Medium-capacity rail system/light rapid transit/light metro/premetro
- Monorail
- Mountain railway
- Plateway
- Rack railway
- Tourist railroad
- Wagonway
Urban rail transport, general types
- Urban rail transit – overview
- Rapid transit
- * High-speed rail
- Elevated rail
- Cable railway
- *Funicular
- Commuter rail
- Interurban
- Light rail
- *Very light rail/Ultra light rail
- People mover
- Tramway
History of rail transport
- Chronological list: Lists of rail transport events by year
- Lists of rail accidents
- * List of rail accidents
- Railroad chronometer
- Railway Mail Service
- * Railway post office
- Railway Mania
- Railway Express Agency
Vehicles
- Car float
- Road-rail vehicle
- * Rail car mover
- Railgrinder
- Train ferry
Trains
- Train
- * Parts
- ** Bogie
- ** Wheelset
- * Rolling stock
- ** Railroad car
- ** Railbus
- ** Railcar
- Tram
- Tram-train
Locomotives
- Locomotive
- * Steam locomotive
- * Diesel locomotive
- * Electric locomotive
Railway infrastructure
- Railway platform
Permanent way
- Axe ties
- Baulk road
- Breather switch
- Cant
- Clip and scotch
- Datenail
- Fishplate
- Ladder track
- Minimum radius
- Permanent way
- Permanent way
- Rail fastening system
- Railhead
- 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
- 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
- Horseshoe curve
- Zig Zag / Switchback
- Spiral
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
- Coaling tower
- Goods shed
- Motive power depot
- Roundhouse
- Station building
- Train shed
- Train station
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 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
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
- Conductor
- Rail pass
- Train ticket
- Transit pass
Rail transport organizations
- National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
- International Association of Railway Operations Research
- International Union of Railways
Rail transport publications
- List of railroad-related periodicals
Persons influential in rail transport
- List of people associated with rail transport
- George Stephenson
- Robert Stephenson
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Thomas Brassey