A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway"...

A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the...

A quadruple-track railway (also known as a four-track railway) is a railway line consisting of four parallel tracks with two tracks used in each direction...

In rail transport, track gauge is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. All vehicles on a rail network must have wheelsets that are compatible...

The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast...

(mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload...

A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track. Single track is usually found on lesser-used rail...

the combined track structure. Ballast also physically holds the track in place as the trains roll over it. Not all types of railway tracks use ballast...

English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Usually...

A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of ties/sleepers and ballast is...