International Journal of Railway Research

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Types of Contribution 
Four types of contributions including: original research papers, review articles, short communications and book reviews are welcome to the IJRARE.
 

Proofs 
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Off-prints 
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail and 3 copies of hardcopy of the corresponding journal issue including the author's article by regular mail service