A railway or railroad is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, for transporting both passengers and freight. It consists of two parallel rails, usually made of steel, and wooden or concrete sleepers or ties that hold the rails exactly at the proper distance from each other. See Rail tracks

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Rail transport in Australia C Cable railways D Defunct railroads E Electric railways F Fictional railways Funicular railways H Railways in Hong Kong I Important people in rail transport L Level crossings Light rail M Metro Monorails

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List of light-rail transit systems Rail transport by country List of railway companies List of countries by rail transport network size A AAR wheel arrangement ATOS AVE Advanced Passenger Train Advanced light rapid transit Armoured train Association of American Railroads B Bailey Yard Betuweroute Branch line Break-of-gauge British Rail British Rail Class 390 Broad gauge Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Bulgarian Railroad Company C Cable car (railway) Cable railway Cant (rail) Chain of Responsibility Class I railroad Crossbuck Safety Crossing loop D Death Railway Dendermonde-Puurs Steam Railway Diesel multiple unit Double switching Double track Drumhead Dual gauge E Easy Access EuroCity F Fallen flag Fare control Ferry slip Fill trestle Frog war Funicular G GO Transit Gandy dancer Gravity railroad Greater Toronto Transit Authority Ground level power supply H HSL-Oost HSL-Zuid High-speed rail History of rail transport History of rail transport by country History of rail transport in Canada History of rail transport in France

H cont. History of rail transport in Great Britain History of rail transport in Ireland History of rail transport in Spain Rail transport in Hong Kong Railway stations of Hong Kong Hong Kong Railway Museum I Inductrack Industrial railway Inter Rail Inter-city rail InterCity International Railway Journal Interurban Island platform L Lartigue Las Vegas Monorail Level crossing Light rail List of AAR reporting marks List of current systems for electric rail traction List of heritage railways List of railroad-related periodicals List of suburban and commuter rail systems List of urban heavy rail systems Loading gauge Locomotive Low floor M M-Bahn Magnetic levitation train Maintenance of way Mind the gap Monorail Mountain railway N Narrow gauge New Zealand Railways Corporation Norwegian railway signals O OC Transpo Overhead lines P Panama Railway Passenger train human waste disposal Pichi Richi Railway Push-pull R Rail Trail Rail gauge Rail siding Rail terminology Rail tracks Rail transport Rail transport in Belgium Rail transport in Canada Rail transport in Norway Rail transport in mainland China Rail transport in the United Kingdom Rail transport modelling Rail transport operations

R cont. Rail usage statistics by country Railfan Railhead Railroad directions Railway electrification system Railway missing links Railway platform Railway signal Railway station layouts Railways Act 1921 Rainhill Trials Regional rail RijnGouweLijn Rollsign Roundhouse Rubber-tired metro S S-Bahn SAFEGE San Francisco cable car system Short line railroad Signal box Skip-stop Standard gauge Steam dummy Steam railroad Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works T TGV Thalys Third rail Toronto Zoo Domain Ride Tourist Railway Association, Inc. Track pan Tractive effort Train Train ferry Train order Train spotting Train station Train stop Train whistle Trains in the Netherlands Tram stop Tram-train Trans-Andean Railways Trans-Asian Railway Transcontinental railroad Transrapid Tren Urbano TriMet Triangle (railway) Turntable (railroad) U U-Bahn UIC classification USRA standard Ultra Low Floor