10 Facts About Passenger rail

In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run.

The plate Passenger rail was taken up by Benjamin Outram for wagonways serving his canals, manufacturing them at his Butterley ironworks.

Passenger rail built the locomotive Blucher, a successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive.

Passenger rail trains are part of public transport and often make up the stem of the service, with buses feeding to stations.

Passenger rail trains provide long-distance intercity travel, daily commuter trips, or local urban transit services, operating with a diversity of vehicles, operating speeds, right-of-way requirements, and service frequency.

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Airport Passenger rail links provide quick access from city centres to airports.

Transport by Passenger rail is an energy-efficient but capital-intensive means of mechanized land transport.

In North America, freight rail transport is widespread and heavily used, but intercity passenger rail transport is relatively scarce outside the Northeast Corridor, due to increased preference of other modes, particularly automobiles and airplanes.

European development economists have argued that the existence of modern Passenger rail infrastructure is a significant indicator of a country's economic advancement: this perspective is illustrated notably through the Basic Rail Transportation Infrastructure Index.

In 2014, total Passenger rail spending by China was $130 billion and is likely to remain at a similar rate for the rest of the country's next Five Year Period.