Key:railway
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+/- railway
The railway tag is used to mark all kinds of railways, railway infrastructure or other transports using rails.
Railway
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Usage
- See also Railways
The railway tag is used to tag the ways for many kinds of railways including including light rail, mainline railways, metros, monorails and Trams. Besides the actual rails, it is also used for tagging railway infrastructure.
Values
See below for table:
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| railway | abandoned | 
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The course of a former railway which has been abandoned and the track and infrastucture removed. The course may be still recognized through embankments, cuttings, bridges, tunnel and rolling or straight ways. |  | |
| railway | construction |
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A railway under construction. See construction=* and the construction=yes proposal Proposed_features/Construction |  | |
| railway | disused |
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A section of railway which is no longer used but where the track and infrastructure remains in place. See disused=yes for alternative tagging. | 
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| railway | funicular |
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Cable driven inclined railways. In many cases they serve touristic interest, giving easy access to spectacular mountain views. | 
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| railway | light_rail |
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A higher-standard tram system, normally in its own right-of-way. Often it connects towns and thus reaches a considerable length (tens of kilometer). | 
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| railway | miniature |
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Miniature railways are narrower than narrow gauge and carry passengers. They can be found in parks. |  |
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| railway | monorail |
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A railway with only a single rail. A monorail can run above the rail like in Las Vegas and Disneyland or can suspend below the rail like the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (Germany) |  | |
| railway | narrow_gauge |
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Narrow-gauge passenger or freight trains. Narrow gauge railways can have mainline railway service like the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland or can be a small light industrial railway. Use gauge=* to specify the actual width of rails. | 
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| railway | preserved |
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A railway running historic trains, usually a tourist attraction (changed to preserved from preserved_rail as "rail" is redundant). |  |
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| railway | rail |
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Full sized passenger or freight trains in the standard gauge for the country or state | 
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| railway | subway |
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A city passenger rail service running mostly grade separated (see Wikipedia:rapid transit). |  | |
| railway | tram |
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One or two carriage rail vehicles, usually sharing motor road (Other languages) | 
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| Additional features | |||||
| bridge | yes |
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If the railway goes over a street, waterway or other railway. |  |
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| cutting | yes |
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A section where the railway is significantly lower than ground level |  | |
| electrified | contact_line / rail / yes / no |
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contact_line: a power line over the train head rail: a third rail near the track supplying the train with power yes: electrified track, but no details available no: track with no power supply |
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| embankment | yes |
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A section where the railway is raised significantly higher than ground level | 
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| frequency |
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The frequency with which a line is electrified. Use 0 for DC. Also see the voltage tag. | |||
| service | siding |
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Relatively short lengths of track, running parallel to (and connected to) a main route | ||
| service | spur |
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Relatively short lengths of track, built to give one company or entity access to a main or branch line. | ||
| service | yard |
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Tracks within railway company operated marshaling or maintenance yards | ||
| tracks |
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Number of parallel tracks in close proximity when mapped as a single way. If not given means unknown and defaults to 1. In many parts of the world the tracks are being drawn out separately so that there is more detail, in which case this tag isn't used. | |||
| tunnel | yes |
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If the railway goes below ground. Should be always present on subways. | 
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| usage | main / branch / industrial / military / tourism |
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main line: heavy traffic |
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| voltage |
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The voltage with which a line is electrified. Also see the frequency tag. | |||
| Stations and Stops | |||||
| railway | halt | 
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A small station, may not have a platform, trains may only stop on request. |
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| public_transport | platform | 
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This is parallel to the rail line for showing where the actual platforms are. It is also to know where you can change platform and enter the station, so use footpaths to connect them. This is really useful for routing too. |  | |
| railway | station |
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Railway station (Other languages). |
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| railway | subway_entrance |
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The entrance to a subway station, usually going from surface to underground. |  | |
| railway | tram_stop |
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A tram stop is a place where a passenger can embark / disembark a tram. |  |
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| Other | |||||
| railway | buffer_stop |
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stops the train at the end of a track. see Buffer_stop | .jpg) | |
| railway | derail |
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a device used to prevent fouling of a rail track by unauthorized movements of trains or unattended rolling stock. See Derail_(railroad) |  | |
| railway | crossing |
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A point where pedestrians may cross. | 
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| railway | level_crossing |
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A point where rails and roads cross. |  |
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| landuse | railway |
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Ground used around railways and railway-stations |  | |
| railway | turntable |
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These are used for changing the direction that part of a train is pointing in. |  | |
| railway | roundhouse |
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A semicircular building with many stalls for servicing engines. |  | |
| railway | User Defined |
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All commonly used values according to Taginfo | ||
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
