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transport infrastructure. e.g. Singapore is the base for tourism for South East Asia due to its
strategic location and good transport infrastructure.
The World Tourism Organization forecasts that international tourism will continue
growing at the average annual rate of 4 percent (http://www.world-tourism.org). By 2020
Europe will re main the mos t popular des tination, but its share will drop fro m 60 percent in
1995 to 46 percent. Long-haul will grow slightly faster than intraregional travel and by 2020
its share will increase from 18 percent in 1995 to 24 percent.
Text 3. Train
In rail transport, a train consists of several connected rail vehicles that are capable of
being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to
another along a planned route. The guideway usually consists of conventional rail, but may
be monorail or maglev. Propulsion for the train may come from a variety of sources, but
often from a locomotive or self-propelled multiple unit.
There are various types of train designed for particular purposes, see rail transport
operations.
A train can consist of a combination of a locomotive and attached railroad cars, or a
self-propelled multiple unit (or occasionally a single powered coach, called a railcar). Trains
can also be hauled by horses, pulled by a cable, or run downhill by gravity.
Special kinds of trains running on corresponding special 'railways' are atmospheric
railways, monorails, high-speed railways, maglev, rubber-tired underground, funicular and
cog railways.
A passenger train may consist of one or several locomotives, and one or more
coaches. Alternatively, a train may consist entirely of passenger carrying coaches, some or
all of which are powered as a "multiple unit".
Freight trains comprise wagons or trucks rather than carriages, though some parcel
and mail trains (especially Travelling Post Offices) are outwardly more like passenger
trains.
A train hauled by two locomotives is said to be "double headed".
Trains can also be mixed, hauling both passengers and freight, see e.g. Transportation
in Mauritania. Such mixed trains have become rare in many countries.
Special trains are also used for track maintenance.

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