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How is a passenger train different from a good train?
A passenger train includes passenger-carrying vehicles and can often be very long and fast. A freight train (or goods train) uses freight cars (or wagons/trucks) to transport goods or materials (cargo). It is possible to carry passengers and freight in the same train using a mixed consist.
What is a passenger train called?
A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self propelled passenger trains are known as multiple units or railcars.
What is difference between local train and metro?
A metro train is a train that is specifically designed to run in metropolitan cities while local trains are designed to connect the distances within the city and its suburbs areas.
What’s the difference between local and express train?
Express trains make a small number of stops, usually major destinations, allowing faster service than local trains that stop at most or all of the stations along their route. This can be done, for example, where there is no supplemental local service to those stations.
Do passenger trains carry cargo?
A mixed train or mixed consist is a train that contains both passenger and freight cars or wagons. However, some earlier passenger expresses, which also hauled time-sensitive freight in covered goods wagons (boxcars), would now be termed mixed trains.
Does the C train run at night?
The C operates at all times except late nights between 168th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and Euclid Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, making all stops along its entire route. During late night hours, the A train, which runs express along the entire C route during daytime hours, makes all stops.
Which is the super fast train in India?
Vande Bharat Express
As of 2021, the fastest train of India is Vande Bharat Express with a top speed of 180 km/h (110 mph) which it attained during a trial run. While the fastest operating train is Gatimaan Express with a top operating speed of 160 km/h (99 mph).