Chart 208 - Rail Transport

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1. Steam Locomotive - A steam locomotive is a steam powered railway locomotive. It was used a lot between about 1830 and 1970 later replace by diesel & electric locomotives. Steam locomotives are still today used in many developing countries where the railways have not yet been electrified.
2. Diesel Locomotive - A diesel locomotive is powered by a diesel engine. Diesel locomotives are extremely popular worldwide, due to their ease of use and reliability. They are more powerful than steam locomotives and do not need an expensive power grid like electric locomotives.
3. Electric Locomotive - An electric locomotive runs on electricity as the name suggests. Electric locomotives cost the least to buy and operate. They are eco friendly too. However, the railway electrification system is very expensive, so only tracks used by many trains per day are usually electrified.
4. Metro Train – Metro is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. Unlike bus's or trams, rapid transit systems are electric railways that operate on an exclusive right-of-way, which cannot be accessed by pedestrians or other vehicles.
5. Monorail – A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated. Monorails have found applications in airport transfer and medium capacity metros.
6. Mumbai Local Train - Mumbai Local Train operates more than 2,300 train services and carries more than 7.5 million commuters daily. It is one of the busiest commuter rail systems in the world and it has some of the most severe overcrowding in the world. It is the oldest railway network in Asia beginning its operations in April 1853.
7. Euro Train – Euro Train (Eurostar) is a high-speed train service in Western Europe connecting London and Kent in the U.K. with Paris and Lille in France and Brussels in Belgium. All Eurostar trains cross the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel. The service is operated by 18-carriage Class 373 trains at up to 300 km/h on a network of high-speed lines.
8. TGV Train – TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, French for "high-speed train"), is a category of high speed trains. They are used in France. The trains normally travel at speeds between 270 km/h and 320 km/h. They are the fastest normal trains in the world, their average travel speed is at 279.4 km/h.
9. Shinkansen Train – Shinkansen is a group of high speed railway lines in Japan, upon which the famous "Bullet Trains" run. Shinkansen uses a range of advanced technology compared with conventional rail and it achieved not only high speed but also a high standard of safety and comfort.
10. Suspended Monorail – A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail where the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track, which is built above street level, over a river or canal or an existing railway track.
11. Funicular – A funicular, also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other.
12. Mountain Train – A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountain region. It may operate through the mountains, for example by following mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes. Or it may climb mountains, in order to provide transport to and from their summits.
13. Goods Train – A freight train or goods train is a group of freight cars or goods wagons hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, transporting cargo all or some of the way between the shipper and the intended destination as part of the logistics chain.
14. Maglev – Maglev is a transport method that uses magnetic levitation to move vehicles without touching the ground. With maglev, a vehicle travels along a guideway using magnets to create both lift and propulsion, thereby reducing friction by a great extent and allowing very high speeds.
15. Tram - A tram is a passenger vehicle that is like a train which run on dedicated tracks on the road within cities. Trams first came into use in the 1890's.
16. Railway Station - Railway station is a railway facility where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight. It generally consists of at least one track-side platform and a station building.

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