Functional Types of Railway

Functional Types of Railway

Super Express

Rapid Trains

Local Trains

Subways

Super Express (Bullet Train)

Super Express (Bullet Train) Normally intercity trains. Top Commercial Speed

Country dependent Maximum 581km/h (Japan) Still under Experiments. France and European countries 330 km/h on an

average.

Rapid Trains (Limited Express Train)

Intercity Trains, Urban-rural Connection

Top commercial Speed 120-150 km/h

Stops at Limited Stations.

Local Trains

Normally within city trains.

Top commercial Speed 90-100 km/h

Stops at every station

Subways

Subways

Underground trains Normally stops at every station Avg. Speed 90 km/h Tokyo Subways system is the World Largest. New York Subways system is World’s 2nd

Largest