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- Rail transport - WikipediaRail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. [1] Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport.
- Railroad - Track, Locomotives, Infrastructure | BritannicaRailroad - Track, Locomotives, Infrastructure: With the 20th century the railroad reached maturity. Railroad building continued on a fairly extensive scale in some parts of the world, notably in Canada, China, the Soviet Union, and Africa. But in most of the more developed countries construction tapered off until the second half of the century. Then it was revived, first by the demand for new ...
- Railroad - History, Development, Impact | BritannicaConstruction began on May 13, 1822, using both malleable iron rails (for two-thirds the distance) and cast iron and set at a track gauge of 1,422 mm (4 feet 8 inches). This gauge was subsequently standardized, with 13 mm (one-half inch) added at a date and for reasons unknown. On September 27, 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway was ...
- Railroad | History, Invention, & Facts | BritannicaRailroad, mode of land transportation in which flange-wheeled vehicles move over two parallel steel rails, or tracks, either by self-propulsion or by the propulsion of a locomotive. Ideally, a railroad should be built in a straight line, over level ground, between large centers of trade and travel.
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