Train ferry refers to a train that uses a giant ferry to transport the whole train across rivers, lakes and seas. That is, the train drives to the shore of the strait, and the train pushes the special ferry (with train tracks) in sections, drives to the other side, and reconnects the train tracks on land.

Qiongzhou Strait train ferry is the first cross-sea train ferry line in China. It is 24 kilometers from the North Port of Yuehai Railway at the southern end of Leizhou Peninsula to Haikou City, Hainan Island. The annual designed transportation capacity is100000 tons of goods and 8 pairs of buses. The first cross-sea train ferry used was Yuehai Railway 1, designed by China Shipbuilding Industry 708 Research Institute and built by Shanghai Jiangnan Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd.

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The earliest railway ferry appeared in 1849 in England, designed by Thomas Butch. In the United States, until the 1960s, the railway ferry was always called the car ferry. Later, because of the popularity of cars, car ferry appeared, which made the word refer to ships carrying road vehicles. The earliest railway ferry in China appeared on the Sunning Railway in Niuwan, Xinhui, Guangdong in 19 1 1.

In addition, if railway locomotives or export vans are to be transported to other countries by sea, railway ferries are usually used to drive the trains exported to other countries from their own ports into ferry carriages, and then to the railway terminals of foreign ports and transport them to foreign railway companies.

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