Inter-city rail
Inter-city rail services are express trains that run services that connect cities over longer distances than commuter or regional trains. They include rail services that are neither short-distance commuter rail trains within one city area nor slow regional rail trains stopping at all stations and covering local journeys only. An inter-city train is typically an express train with limited stops and comfortable carriages to serve long-distance travel.
Inter-city rail sometimes provides international services. This is most prevalent in Europe because of the proximity of its 50 countries to a 10,180,000-square-kilometre (3,930,000-square-mile) area.[1]
The word InterCity or Inter-City is an official brand name in many European countries, for a network of regular-interval and relatively long-distance train services. The use of the term appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and has been widely imitated.
Inter-city Rail Media
An Acela Express high-speed train traveling on the busy Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C. in July 2011
An Italian InterCity train at Milano Centrale railway station
A DMU tilting train express Super Ōzora in Japan
Beijing–Kowloon through train, hauled by a SS8 electric locomotive, passing through Kowloon Tong station in Hong Kong
Laos–China Railway higher-speed EMU train
An InterCity 125 passes Ealing Broadway station in London on its way to Swansea, Wales. This is the world's fastest diesel train and was used on various intercity services in Great Britain until May 2021.
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