::Rail transport operations

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• Operations
• Track
• Maintenance
• High-speed railways
• Track gauge
• Stations
• Trains
• Locomotives
• Rolling stock
• Companies
• History
• Attractions
• Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK)
• By country
• Accidents
• Railway couplings
• Couplers by country
• Coupler conversion
• Variable gauge
• Gauge conversion
• Dual gauge
• Wheelset
• Bogie (truck)
• Dual coupling

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• Modelling

|contentclass = hlist }} A railway has two major components: the rolling stock (the locomotives, passenger coaches, freight cars, etc.) and the infrastructure (the permanent way, tracks, stations, freight facilities, viaducts, tunnels, etc.).

Rail transport operations sections
Intro  Operation  Intrinsic factors  Background factors (feasibility)  Extrinsic factors  

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