Types of railway

From OpenTTD

OpenTTD offers 4 types of railways for construction, all eventually available under the Construct Railway menu:

For detailed information on how to build railways, see Railway Construction.

The types of track are as follows:

[edit] Normal railway

Normal railways are the only railway available at the start of the game (unless the game is started at a very early date). Only steam and diesel trains run on this railway (unless the Electric Rails patch is disabled).

[edit] Electrified railway

Electrified Railways become available in 1965. Electric trains will run only on this type of track, unless you disable Electric Railways in the patch settings. Steam and diesel trains can still run on this railway.

[edit] Monorail

Monorail becomes available in 1999. Only Monorail trains can run on this railway.

[edit] MagLev

MagLev is the final rail type, allowing the fastest trains and only becoming available in 2022. Only MagLev trains can run on this railway.