Abstract: The railway training and education platform is a public training and education system for all railway enterprises and caters for the need of training and education of all national railway workers, cadres and members of the Communist Party. A brief introduction is made to edge computing and its advantages. Aiming to meet the development requirements of the platform and and to tackle its challenges, it is explored how to introduce edge computing to reshape the network and system architecture of the platform in the technical solution to innovative integration of new technologies, such as 5G mobile communication, and education and training business of railway enterprises, which can better support new teaching forms, improve the platform application performance and intelligence level, further enhance user experience, boost the training management organization's ability to deal with complex scenes, and facilitate the big data analysis of railway education and training.