Is it train car or carriage?

In British English, a carriage is one of the separate sections of a train that carries passengers. The man crossed the carriage to where I was sitting. In American English, these sections are called cars. In British English, car used to be part of the name of some special kinds of railway carriage.



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In the United States all freight carriages are called rail cars, freight cars, train cars, or more specifically by the type of car, like box car, gondola, covered hopper, auto rack, tank car, flat car, double stack car, etc.

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A part of a train is called a car. One part of a train is called a carriage or a car.

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The engine is the first car on a freight train, and the last car is usually the caboose. Besides being last, the other feature of a caboose is its use by the crew. Most of a freight train will be filled with whatever cargo they're transporting, and they need to use that space as efficiently as possible.

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The engine, or locomotive, powers the train by pulling the cars from the front. Generally, engines are powered either by some sort of fuel carried on the train. Diesel-powered engines are by far the most popular today, but other engines are still powered by wood, coal, steam, gas, natural gas, and electricity.

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Two-wheeled carriages are informal and usually owner-driven. Coaches are a special category within carriages. They are carriages with four corner posts and a fixed roof. Two-wheeled war chariots and transport vehicles such as four-wheeled wagons and two-wheeled carts were forerunners of carriages.

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Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be called a subway, tube, or underground.

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A collection of rail vehicles may also be called a consist. A set of vehicles that are permanently or semi-permanently coupled together (such as the Pioneer Zephyr) is called a trainset.

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The term railcar is usually used in reference to a train consisting of a single coach (carriage, car), with a driver's cab at one or both ends. Some railway companies, such as the Great Western, termed such vehicles railmotors (or rail motors).

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