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A set of railway routes that are bundled for publicity purposes (e.g. a UK train operating company) [205] [206] Railway station Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C., an example of a railway station A train station, a stopping point for trains, usually with passenger access Railway terminal A building for passengers at the end of a ...
A nickname for the Canadian Pacific Railway's 1968–1996 logo featuring a black triangle within a white half-circle, which resembles the main character of the video arcade game Pac-Man. It was CP's corporate logo for all business aspects: Railway (CP Rail), shipping , telecommunications , trucking (CP Express), and airline .
A Metro, originally shorted from 'metropolitan railway', [2] is defined by the International Association of Public Transport (L'Union Internationale des Transports Publics, or UITP) as urban guided transport systems "operated on their own right of way and segregated from general road and pedestrian traffic.
Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms This page was last edited on 8 October 2018, at 05:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A bridge carrying the railway and allowing a roadway to pass under the railway [23]: 408 Up A direction (usually towards London, other capital city, or the headquarters of the railway concerned) or side (on left-running railways, the left side when facing in the up direction). The opposite of down.
on railway shunting yards: road switcher: locomotive intended both for moving other rolling stock (shunting) on railway shunting yards and for acting as a regular locomotive outside shunting yards multiple unit (MU) multiple unit (MU) railway vehicle capable of controlling (and powering) another railway vehicle power car: power car: Triebkopf ...
Carvan Passenger carriage with a guard's compartment at one end, classes A F (wooden body) and A L (steel body). Originally built to relieve a shortage of guard's vans and used on rural branch lines in place of a separate carriage and guard's van, the later A L carvans were used in suburban service only.
In the case of the former South Australian Railways, however, many North American terms and practices were introduced during the incumbency of William Alfred Webb, the American railways commissioner of the SAR between 1922 and 1930. SAR employees' enthusiasm for US railroad developments perpetuated these terms.