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? edit

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.

Essence of rail transport edit

Types of railway/railroad edit

Urban rail transport, general types edit

History of rail transport edit

History of rail transport

Vehicles edit

Trains edit

Locomotives edit

Railway infrastructure edit

Permanent way edit

Trackwork and track structures edit

Railway track layouts edit

Running lines edit

Track (Running lines)

Rail sidings edit

Rail sidings

Rail junctions edit

Rail junctions

Railway station track layouts edit

Railway station

Hillclimbing edit

Hillclimbing

Signalling and safety edit

Buildings edit

Rail transport by region edit

Rail transport politics edit

Rail culture edit

General concepts edit

Rail transport organizations edit

Rail transport publications edit

Persons influential in rail transport edit

See also edit

References edit

External links edit