22 Best Books on Railway Engineering

“Principles Of Railway Engineering” Book Review: The book is suitable for students of railway engineering. It mainly provides important information on the subject in a well-structured manner.

“Railway Track Engineering” Book Review: This book is a guide to professionals for understanding the track technology. It provides knowledge of magnetic levitation tracks and currently used metros and trains.

“Electric Railway Engineering (Classic Reprint)” Book Review: The book is designed for students in technical universities. It provides fundamental concepts and in-depth knowledge of electrical engineering.

“Railway Engineering (Oxford Higher Education)” Book Review: The book is helpful to students of polytechnics and those who are preparing for AMIE examination. It is also helpful to undergraduate students of civil engineering. It includes all aspects of the railways like modernization plans covering tracks, locomotives and rolling stock.

“Railway Track Engineering” Book Review: The book gives conventional methods of track construction, maintenance and monitoring, along with modern sophisticated track machines. It also covers design details and specifications of important track components. It gives an explanation of the hitherto little understood phenomenon of rolling contact fatigue in rails and practical steps to deal with it. It also has the new guidelines for ultrasonic rail flaw detection. It also includes new technology of alumino-thermic rail welding and track structure for dedicated freight corridors. It talks about the technology of fully mechanized track construction with the deployment of simple track laying equipment to highly sophisticated track-laying trains. The book has photographs and line drawings. It is intended for professionals and students.

“Big Data and Differential Privacy: Analysis Strategies for Railway Track Engineering (Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science)” Book Review: The book discusses the common issues with the implementation of big data applications while exploring the limitations, advantages, and disadvantages of more conventional methods. It gives a unifying approach to analyzing large volumes of data in railway track engineering using an array of proven methods and software technologies. It tells about a unified framework for handling large volumes of data in railway track engineering using predictive analytics, machine learning, and data mining. It implements big data applications and addresses common issues in railway track maintenance. It is intended for researchers and professionals in transportation science, railway track engineering, design engineering, operations research, and railway planning and management.

“Rail Vehicle Dynamics” Book Review: This book is designed for advanced graduate students of mathematics and engineers. The book is prepared from manuscripts for a class with the same name. It consists of research results and experience.

“Fundamentals of Rail Vehicle Dynamics (Advances in Engineering Series)” Book Review: This book is designed for designers and researchers. It consists of fundamental concepts for the design of rail vehicles. It also provides results of analytical studies.

“Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems” Book Review: The book is suitable for scientists and engineers related to solving environmental problems of railways. This book consists of contributions to the 10th International workshop on railway noise.

“Dynamical Analysis of Vehicle Systems: Theoretical Foundations and Advanced Applications (CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences)” Book Review: This book introduces fundamental concepts of rail and road vehicles. It is based on multibody system dynamics and control system design. It also provides a better understanding of physical phenomena of vehicle dynamics.

“Design of High-Speed Railway Turnouts: Theory and Applications” Book Review: This book is about high-speed railways. It introduces technical characteristics and requirements of high-speed turnouts. It provides an in-depth knowledge of design, manufacture and maintenance technology of high-speed railways.