Railway Technical Web Pages

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This site.....

.....provides free articles about railways, using the UK railway system as the base technology with more articles and information about other systems, like the US, as appropriate.  Articles and glossaries are provided for a range of subjects.  These include planning, finance, operations, design, engineering, production and maintenance.   There is also some information about steam locomotives, including a glossary and an explanation of wheel arrangement descriptions.

Navigation....

The main subjects are listed in the left hand link column.  Subjects listed as "....Pages" have several pages covering various aspects of that subject.

Diagrams like this one are provided throughout the articles to show sections of infrastructure, plans of stations, railway signs, signals, features and how equipment works.  This diagram is an sample schematic of the pneumatic auxiliary equipment on a train and is described fully in an article on this site here.

Site Map....

A full list of all pages on this site is provided on our Site Map.

Links....

..... are provided on this links page to take you to a number of sites with specialist information in many countries around the world including the USA, France, Germany, Japan, Spain and the UK.  Click on this photo and it will take you to a page of links about High Speed Trains.

Contributions....

A number of contributors have already provided excellent articles and photos for this site, and we will be pleased to consider new material for publication here.