• This created confusion in terminology and the media started to differentiate the "higher-speed rail" from the high-speed rail. Some state-level departments...
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    related to Passenger trains. Passenger rail terminology Passenger train toilet Drumhead (sign) Headboard (train) Luxury trains "Passenger train definition...
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  • Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they...
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    Regional rail is a term used for passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities. These trains operate with more stops than inter-city rail, and...
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    bus service. Automated guideway transit Light rail Maglev Metro Premetro Passenger rail terminology Rail transport Rubber-tyred metro People mover VAL...
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    Urban rail transit is a wide term for various types of local rail systems providing passenger service within and around urban or suburban areas. The set...
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    Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology while...
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    steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight...
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    trains Maglev Megaproject Proposed high-speed rail by country Passenger rail terminology Vactrain Inter-city rail "High Speed Lines in the World" (PDF). International...
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    independently from the often parallel High-Speed-Rail-Lines. Japan has six main regional passenger railway companies, known collectively as Japan Railways...
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    urban rail, according to mandate M/486" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-16. "Glossary of Transit Terminology" (PDF)...
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    any type such as light rail, tram, streetcar, commuter rail, regional rail or heavy rail, intercity passenger service. The rail service may be replaced...
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    A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union...
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    Train (redirect from Passenger services)
    provides terminology for North America. The British Rail Safety and Standards Board defines a train as a "light locomotive, self-propelled rail vehicle...
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  • Australian railway terms Glossary of New Zealand railway terms Passenger rail terminology for carriages when permanently or semipermanently coupled when...
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    These vehicles typically have two or four wheels and were used to carry passengers or a load. They were once common worldwide, but they have mostly been...
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  • Rail transport – means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on...
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    coastguard, military and survey applications, as well as for sport or passenger service. Very large versions have been used to transport hundreds of people...
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    East-West Rail (also referred to as West-East Rail) is a proposed intercity passenger rail project that would provide new service between Boston and western...
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    unchanged to this day. In Moscow Metro, a railway from 1908 was reopened as a passenger line in 2016. More recently, line 3 of the Copenhagen Metro opened in...
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  • Glossary of North American railway terms Glossary of rail transport terms Passenger rail terminology Ellis, Iain (2006). Ellis' British Railway Engineering...
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    Commuter rail or suburban rail is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central...
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    driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their...
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  • Headway (category Rail technologies)
    achieve. Modern large cities require passenger rail systems with tremendous capacity, and low headways allow passenger demand to be met in all but the busiest...
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  • Hydrofoil (category Nautical terminology)
    relatively small, and are mainly used as high-speed passenger ferries, where the relatively high passenger fees can offset the high cost of the craft itself...
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  • Zealand railway terms Glossary of rail transport terms Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms Passenger rail terminology "Railroad Dictionary: T". CSX....
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  • route – as in "the route that [a] bus or rail vehicle follows through the city". In 2000, this terminology was adopted by an English language best practice...
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    rapid transit on exclusive suburban railway lines augmented by commuter rail on main lines serving outlying suburbs, the bus services of the three municipalities...
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  • class infrastructure & passenger amenities". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 22 December 2023. PTI (27 June 2023). "Titagarh Rail Systems bags Rs 857 cr...
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  • 43. 12 August – United Kingdom – Stonehaven derailment: A ScotRail Inter7City passenger train derailed near Carmont following stormy weather, killing...
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