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.

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.

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