One train carriage in profile, usually wired for overhead power and drawn just detailed enough on some platforms to read as tram as much as train. It stands for train travel broadly, a daily commute or a long rail trip, one carriage doing duty for the whole journey rather than any specific route.
What 🚃 means
A single van-like vehicle painted in stripes of green, cream, and orange, designed with a couple of rectangular windows in horizontal space and balanced on two pairs of wheels.
The 🚃 Railway Car emoji represents a railroad train, also known as a railway wagon, a train wagon, or even a train car that's used in cargo and people transport from one station to another.
How and when to use it
- While sharing railway services related posts, you can use 🚃 in the caption. It can be a news post, an educational video, etc.
- If you're traveling in a railway car for the first time and you wish to make a social media memory out of the same, use 🚃 in the post caption while sharing pictures and/or videos of the same.
- The previous point applies even while sending those pictures/videos via direct message (DM) too.
- Besides, since the railway car emoji looks like a bogie from any kind of train, you could use 🚃 while sharing pictures of just this portion of a train - like a photoshoot series, a 'busy life' kind of a post, etc.
Other Names
- 🚃 Railcar
- 🚃 Railway Wagon
- 🚃 Railway Carriage
- 🚃 Railway Truck
- 🚃 Railwagon
- 🚃 Railcarriage
- 🚃 Railtruck
- 🚃 Train Car
- 🚃 Train Wagon
- 🚃 Train Truck
- 🚃 Train Carriage
The lowdown
- Category
- Travel & Places › transport-ground
- Codepoints
U+1F683- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:railway_car:- Keywords
- car, electric, railway, train, tram, travel, trolleybus
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🚃 Railway Car or 🕢 Seven-thirty?