The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast...

A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway"...

America History of the railway track Railway speed record South American Railway Congress Thomas Gray (1788–1848), railway advocate, published 1st ed. of Observations...

of the station location, or the alignment of the tracks. Examples include staggered platforms, such as at Tutbury and Hatton railway station on the Crewe–Derby...

A quadruple-track railway (also known as a four-track railway) is a railway line consisting of four parallel tracks with two tracks used in each direction...

track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. All vehicles on a rail network must have wheelsets that are compatible with the...

The Timeline of U.S. Railway History depends upon the definition of a railway, as follows: A means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles...

of the railway, the rutway,: 8–19 (8 & 15)  – existed in ancient Greek and Roman times, the most important being the ship trackway Diolkos across the...

Pirie, Gordon. "Tracking railway histories." Journal of Transport History 35.2 (2014): 242–248. Sawai, Minoru, ed. The Development of Railway Technology in...

The railway system of Great Britain started with the building of local isolated wooden wagonways starting in the 1560s. A patchwork of local rail links...

of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails. For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways,...

of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the...

Eastern Counties Railway. The extension was single-track, but whereas the Loughton to Epping section was doubled in the 1890s, the section between Epping...

The GCR is currently the only double track standard gauge mainline heritage railway in the world with 5.25 miles (8.45 km) of working double track. Four...

The Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway (CL&N) was a local passenger and freight-carrying railroad in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of...

and quality of service. The International Union of Railways (UIC) identifies three categories of high-speed rail: Category I New tracks specially constructed...

the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of...

Afghanistan has three railway lines in the north of the country. The first is between Mazar-i-Sharif and the border town of Hairatan in Balkh province...

integrity of the combined track structure. Ballast also physically holds the track in place as the trains roll over it. Not all types of railway tracks use...

A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains. It is a specific type of cable transportation. The most common use for a...

Viareggio railway station (Italian: Stazione di Viareggio) serves the city and comune of Viareggio, in the region of Tuscany, central Italy. Opened in...

by the principal means of motive power used. The world's first passenger tram was the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, in Wales, UK. The Mumbles Railway Act...

and canyons. The earliest model railways were the 'carpet railways' in the 1840s. The first documented model railway was the Railway of the Prince Imperial...

English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally...

of 2023[update], it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 132,310 km (82,210 mi), running track length of...

The main rail tracks are standard gauge and 300 metres (980 ft) long, with two freight sidings, making it the shortest national railway system in the...

the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India, operates India's national railway system. It is the primary owner and operator of rail operations...

the ends of rods of various forms. Adhesion railway The most common type of railway, where power is applied by driving some or all of the wheels of the...

A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways)...

or [set of] points (CE) is a mechanical installation enabling railway trains to be guided from one track to another, such as at a railway junction or...