What is Train?
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{About|a set of cars or vehicles running on a special path called a track}} {{Infobox train |image=ČD Class 641 in Adamov.JPG |caption=Passenger train powered by overhead electricity in the [[Czech Republic]] }} {{wiktionary}} [[File:Поезд на фоне горы Шатрище. Воронежская область.jpg|thumb|An [[electric locomotive]] pulling a passenger train in Russia]] A '''rail train''', otherwise referred to as simply a '''train''', is a set of [[Railway track|railway]]{{efn|A railway is often call a railroad and is a path (track) with usually two [[steel]] [[Railroad rail|rails]] with one or two meters between them. Other types of track are possible, for example a [[monorail]] that one single track only.}} cars (also called vehicles) that are tied together with or without a [[locomotive]].{{efn|A [[locomotive]] (sometimes called a ''prime mover'' or an ''engine'') is a special vehicle that can move itself or other vehicles but does not carry things or people other than the people needed to drive it.}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Definition of train (1a)|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/train|access-date=27 October 2022|website=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|quote=a connected line of railroad cars with or without a locomotive}}</ref> Trains are used to carry people, and also things like [[raw material]], [[finished goods]], [[cargo]], and [[waste]]. The vehicles that carry freight are called ''cars'' (in the [[United States]]) or ''wagons'' (in the [[United Kingdom]]). The ones that carry passengers are often called coaches or carriages. A place where a train stops to let people get on and off is called a [[train station]] or [[railway station]]. Trains have their roots in [[wagonway]]s, which used railway tracks and were [[Horsecar|powered by horses]] or [[Cable railway|pulled by cables]]. Following the invention of the [[steam locomotive]] in the United Kingdom in 1804, trains rapidly spread around the world, allowing freight and passengers to move over land faster and ch