铁路与铁路
The difference between railway and railroad is in the practice rather than in the meaning of the two words. If you are from UK or any of the commonwealth countries, railway is the term that is used to refer to a system of rails andtrains这种轨道或载有数百名乘客和货物的轨道以快速的速度移动。如果您在美国,同一条铁路将成为铁路。即使在加拿大,使用的词也是铁路。实际上,这一切都归结为惯例和使用量,尽管铁路是一个更受欢迎的术语,它是指火车系统和跟踪这些火车运行的系统,但铁路也指的是同一系统。让我们仔细看一下。
What is Railway?
铁路是火车运行的轨道。此外,必须理解,铁路是世界大部分地区通常使用的国际术语。这可能是英国在世界上的影响British Empire。如果你服用Hong Kong, which was a former British territory that still uses English as an official language, you will see that they use the term railway to refer to train tracks. Even in countries like Australia, the term railway is commonly used.
有趣的是,在美国城市的道路上跑步的火车传统上被称为铁路,一直持续到迄今为止。但是,这样的火车被称为tramsor streetcars in rest of the world because they are not exactly trains as they are much smaller and contain a less number of coaches. There is no hard and fast rule in this regard and there are certain companies that prefer to call themselves as railways and not railroad. Prominent among such companies is BNSF that was formed with the merger of BN and ATSF railroad systems in late nineties. There are some more railways in the US such as Staten Island Railway and New York and Atlantic railway that makes it clear that companies choose to be called what they prefer and there is no convention in this regard. It is common to thus see, a company changing over from one of these two terms when there aremergersor takeover cases.
什么是铁路?
Railroad is also a track on which trains run. So, it basically means the same as railways. However, there is one exception when it comes to the United States. Railroad is the only term used to refer to trains running long distances on rails or tracks in the US. While other countries use both railway and railroad to refer to the tracks on which a train runs, US only uses railroad to refer to this track.
Not many people, especially kids, know that before 1850 railroad was a term that was used in the UK. However, instead of being written as railroad, it was written as rail road, but with railways becoming popular around the country, the use of the word rail road was discontinued and railways became the preferred word. You can see this practice of using railway instead of railroad in many countries of the world such as Hong Kong, Australia, and Canada.
铁路和铁路有什么区别?
• 意义:
• The meaning of both railway and railroad is the same. They both refer to the track on which a train runs.
• Usage:
• In most of the English speaking countries including UK and even Canada, the word that is used to refer to a system of trains running on rails made of iron is railways.
• On the other hand, railroad is the term that is used in the US for trains running on rails.
有趣的是,铁路是以前这个词ved for trams or streetcars in the US.
• Practice:
• Often companies change their names from railroad to railways and vice versa when there are mergers or takeovers to distinguish themselves from earlier companies.
What you have to remember is simple. There is no convention or rule in this regard and it is seen that companies decide on whether to be called a railroad or railway. Both railway and railroad refer to the train track. However, US uses railway for tram tracks while using railroad to train tracks.
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- Virginia Railway Express V09by John (CC由2.0)
- Railroad in Gyula (Hungary)byBeyond silence(CC BY-SA 3.0)
约翰·瓦利(John Varley)说
我喜欢您提到1850年之前在英国使用“铁路”一词。
In fact, the world’s first “public” railway, (that is a railway which anyone could use, providing their wagons were of the right wheel-gauge) was the The Lake Lock Rail Road Company which was formed in 1796 at a place called Stanley near Wakefield in Yorkshire.