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Railway track or railroad track, also known as permanent way or "P way", is the structure on a railway consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast, plus the underlying subgrade. It enable
Common contemporary practice in track construction, featuring well-drained ballast spread level with the tops of concrete sleepers/crossties – Australian National Railways, ca 1982
Traditional railway track showing ballast, sleepers, and rail fixings
Guideway of the Light Rail Transit system, Singapore, on which rubber-tyred automated people-mover vehicles operate
Slab track with flexible noise-reducing rail fixings, built by German company Max Bögl, on the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line
Train
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A train is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives, though some are self-propelled, such as
Railway track
…consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. It enables trains to move by providing a dependable, low-friction surface on which steel wheels can roll. Early tracks were constructed with wooden or cast-iron rails…
An electric locomotive pulling a passenger train in Russia
A rack railway in Switzerland
Diesel locomotives pulling a freight train in New Zealand
A suspended monorail in Germany