This page provides an index of articles on rail transport by country.
International railway organisations
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International Union of Railways (UIC)
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International Union of Public Transport
The International Association of Public Transport (UITP, from the french: L’Union internationale des transports publics) is a non-profit advocacy organization for public transport authorities and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific i ...
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Association of American Railways (AAR)
Africa
Eastern Africa
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Rail transport in Djibouti
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Rail transport in Eritrea
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Rail transport in Ethiopia
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Rail transport in Kenya
Rail transport in Kenya consists of a metre-gauge network and a new standard-gauge railway (SGR). Both railways connect Kenya's main port city of Mombasa to the interior, running through the national capital of Nairobi. The metre-gauge net ...
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Rail transport in Madagascar
Rail transport in Madagascar is primarily operated by Madarail. There are two unconnected systems having a total length of , as of 2006, all metre gauge, . The northern railway (TCE, Tananarive–Côte Est) is currently concessioned to Maragall. ...
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Rail transport in Malawi
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Rail transport in Mauritius
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Mozambique Ports and Railways
Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (abbreviated CFM; in English Mozambique Ports and Railways) is a state-owned company that oversees the railway system of Mozambique and its connected ports.
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Transport in Réunion
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Rail transport in Rwanda
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Transport in Seychelles
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Rail transport in Somalia
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Rail transport in South Sudan
South Sudan does not have an extensive rail system. Current rail infrastructure, which was constructed between 1959–1962, and was left over from the previous Sudan government is in a serious state of disrepair. It consists of a narrow-gauge ( ...
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Rail transport in Tanzania
Rail transport in Tanzania is conducted by two companies ( Tanzania Railways Corporation and TAZARA). It has historically used narrow gauge trackage, but planning and construction of new standard gauge lines is underway as of 2017.
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Rail transport in Uganda
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Rail transport in Zambia
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Rail transport in Zimbabwe
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Middle Africa
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Rail transport in Angola
Rail transport in Angola consists of three separate Cape gauge lines that do not connect: the northern Luanda Railway, the central Benguela Railway, and the southern Moçâmedes Railway (southern). The lines each connect the Atlantic coast to t ...
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Rail transport in Cameroon
Rail transport in Cameroon is primarily operated by Camrail, a subsidiary of Bolloré Africa Logistics.
History
In January 2022, it was announced that container shipping company MSC would take over Bolloré Africa Logistics, the parent compa ...
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Transport in the Central African Republic
Modes of transport in the Central African Republic include road, water, and air. Most the country is connected to the road network, but not all of it. Some roads in the country do not connect to the rest of the national road network and may become ...
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Rail transport in Chad
Up to 2012 Chad had no rail system. Two lines are planned to Sudan and Cameroon from the capital with construction expected to start in February 2016 and be complete in 4 years.
History
Early railroad schemes – 19th century
A 1905 book des ...
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Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Rail transport is provided in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by the ''Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Congo'' (SNCC), the Société commerciale des transports et des ports (SCTP) ''(previously Office National des Transports'' ...
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Rail transport in the Republic of the Congo
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Rail transport in Equatorial Guinea
Rail or rails may refer to:
Rail transport
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*Rail (rail transport) or railway lines, the running surface of a railway
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Rail transport in Gabon
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Transport in São Tomé and Príncipe
Transport in São Tomé and Príncipe relies primarily on road infrastructure for local needs and airports and sea travel for international needs. São Tomé and Príncipe does not have railways.
Seaports
In 1999 the country's merchant marine ...
Northern Africa
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Rail transport in Algeria
The following is a non-exhaustive list of railways operating in Algeria with opening dates if available. The classifications of railways into long-distance and regional railways correspond to SNTF categories.
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SNTF
The National Rail Transportation Company (french: Société Nationale des Transports Ferroviaires, abbreviated SNTF; ar, الشركة الوطنية للنّقل بالسّكك الحديدية) is Algeria's national railway operator. The SNTF ...
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Rail transport in Egypt
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Rail transport in Libya There have been no operational railways in Libya since 1965, but various lines existed in the past. Since 1998, plans for an extensive system have been developed, but work has largely halted since the outbreak of the First Libyan Civil War in 2011.
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Rail transport in Morocco
Rail transport in Morocco is operated by the national railway operator ONCF. It was initially developed during the Morocco#French and Spanish protectorates: 1912 to 1956, protectorate.
High speed rail
On 26 November 2018, the first high-speed r ...
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Rail transport in Sudan
Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railways. The main line runs from Wadi Halfa on the Egyptian border to Khartoum and southwest to El-Obeid via Sannar and Kosti, Sudan, with extensions to Nyala in Southern Darfur and Wa ...
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Rail transport in Tunisia
Rail Transport in Tunisia is provided by:
* Tunisian Railways (SNCFT)
* Société des transports de Tunis, manages commuter trains of the Tunis area including metro light rail and TGM in Tunis
* Sahel Metro, company and electric train line So ...
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Transport in Western Sahara Transport in Western Sahara is very limited by sea, road and air with camels being the primary means of transport in the desert area. Road transport by buses remain the major mode of transportation. The longest conveyor belt in the world is long, f ...
Southern Africa
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Rail transport in Botswana
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Eswatini Railways
Eswatini Railways (ESR), formerly known as Swaziland Railway or Swazi Rail, is the national railway corporation of Eswatini.
Overview
As in the rest of Southern Africa, the rail system of Eswatini is built to the narrow Cape gauge of . ESR pr ...
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Rail transport in Lesotho
The nation of Lesotho has a single railway station, located in the capital city Maseru. It is the terminus of the Maseru branch line, which connects to the railway network of South Africa.
Overview
The length of the line within Lesotho, fro ...
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Rail transport in Namibia
Rail service in Namibia is provided by TransNamib. The Namibian rail network consists of 2,687 route-km of tracks (2017).
Namibia has a history of more than 100 years of railway service. During the colonialisation by the German Empire between 1 ...
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Rail transport in South Africa
Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country's transport infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa's railway system is the most highly developed in Africa. The South African rail industry is ...
Western Africa
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Rail transport in Benin
Benin has a total of of single track, ( metre gauge) railway. Rail construction began around 1900, with regular services commencing in 1906; rail operation was taken into government control (from private companies) in 1930.
Benin does not curre ...
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Rail transport in Burkina Faso
There are 622 kilometres of railway in Burkina Faso, which run from Kaya to the border with Côte d'Ivoire and is part of the Abidjan-Ouagadougou railway. As of June 2014, 'Sitarail' operates a passenger train three times a week along the route ...
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Rail transport in Côte d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) has 660 kilometres of railway (1995 estimate). The track gauge is .
The railway was built during the French colonial period, and links the port city of Abidjan with Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.
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Transport in The Gambia
The system of transportation in the Gambia mixes both public and private operations and consists of a system of roads (both paved and unpaved), water and air transportation. The Trans-Gambia Highway runs along both sides of the river Gambia, whic ...
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Rail transport in Ghana
The railway system in Ghana has historically been confined to the plains south of the barrier range of mountains north of the city of Kumasi. However, the narrow gauge railway, totalling 1,300 kilometres, is undergoing major rehabilitation and i ...
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Rail transport in Guinea
Guinea has 1,086 km of railways. This includes 279 km at gauge and 807 km at gauge. The latter includes 662 km in common carrier service from Kankan to Conakry.
Currently operating in Guinea three different railway compani ...
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Transport in Guinea-Bissau
Transport infrastructure in Guinea-Bissau is basic, with most roads outside the capital Bissau being unpaved.
Railways
There are no railways in Guinea-Bissau. At the Port of Bissau, there was a small cargo railway working from the late 19th ...
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Railways in Liberia
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Rail transport in Mali Mali has one railroad (the Dakar–Niger Railway), including 729 kilometers in Mali, which runs from the port of Koulikoro via Bamako to the border with Senegal and continues on to Dakar. The Bamako-Dakar line, which has been described as dilapidat ...
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Rail transport in Mauritania
Rail or rails may refer to:
Rail transport
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Rail transport in Niger
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Rail transport in Nigeria
Railways in Nigeria consist of a 3,505 km Cape gauge national railway network and 669 km of standard gauge. The Cape gauge network is in poor condition due to lack of maintenance. In 2019, the single operational standard gauge line fr ...
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Transport on Saint Helena
This article deals with traffic in Saint Helena, Ascension Island, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, that is all forms of traffic in the Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan ...
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Rail transport in Senegal
Senegal's rail network consists of 906 km of railway at gauge, and 36 km of gauge. The metre-gauge network is part of the Dakar–Niger Railway which crosses the border to Mali. The railway is operated by Transrail, managed by the B ...
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Rail transport in Sierra Leone
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Rail transport in Togo
Asia
East Asia
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Rail transport in China
Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in China. As of 2021, the country had more than of railways, the second longest network in the world. By the end of 2021, China had more than of high-speed rail (HSR), the l ...
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Rail transport in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's rail network mainly comprises public transport trains operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRC). The MTRC operates the metro network of the territory and the commuter rail network connecting the northeastern and northwestern ...
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Rail transport in Japan
Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport in urban areas. It is used relatively little for freight transport, accounting for ju ...
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Rail transport in Macau
Transport in Macau includes road, sea, rail and air transport. Road transport is the primary mode of transport within Macau, although a new rail system opened in December 2019 serving the areas of Taipa and Cotai. The main forms of public transp ...
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Rail transport in Mongolia
Rail transport in Mongolia is an important means of travel in the landlocked country of Mongolia, which has relatively few paved roads. According to official statistics, rail transport carried 93% of Mongolian freight and 43% of passenger turnover ...
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Rail transport in North Korea
Rail transport in North Korea is provided by Korean State Railway (조선 민주주의 인민 공화국 철도성, ''Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk Ch'ŏldosŏng'') which is the only rail operator in North Korea. It has a network of over 6,000 ...
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Rail transport in South Korea
Rail transport in South Korea is a part of the transport network in South Korea and an important mode of the conveyance of people and goods, though railways play a secondary role compared to the road network. The network consists of of stand ...
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Rail transport in Taiwan
Rail transport in Taiwan consists of (as of 2015) of railway networks. Though no longer as dominant as it once was, rail transport is an extremely important form of transportation in Taiwan due to high population density, especially along the de ...
Central Asia
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Rail transport in Kazakhstan
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Rail transport in Kyrgyzstan
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Rail transport in Tajikistan
Rail transport in Tajikistan is limited, as the railroad system totals only of non-electrified, single-track railway, all of it broad gauge. The system connects the main urban centres of western Tajikistan with points in neighboring Uzbekista ...
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Rail transport in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan has of railways ( 37th largest in the world). The railway operator is the state owned company Türkmendemirýollary (Turkmen Railways). The company belongs to the Ministry of Railways of Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan is currently exp ...
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Rail transport in Uzbekistan
As of March 2017, the total length of Uzbekistan's main railway network is ( of which is electrified). A large percentage of the system's track requires major repair. The main line is the portion of the Transcaspian Railroad that connects Tash ...
South Asia
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Rail transport in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has three railway lines in the north of the country. The first is between Mazar-i-Sharif and the border town of Hairatan in Balkh province, which then connects with Uzbek Railways of Uzbekistan (opened 2011). The second links Torghu ...
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Rail transport in Bangladesh
Bangladesh Railway ( bn, বাংলাদেশ রেলওয়ে) is the state-owned rail transport agency of Bangladesh. It operates and maintains all railways in the country, and is overseen by the Directorate General of Bangladesh Ra ...
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Rail transport in Bhutan
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Rail transport in the British Indian Ocean Territory
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Rail transport in India
Rail transport in India is an important mode of conveyance for people and goods in India. Indian Railways (IR) is the primary operator of rail operations throughout the country. IR is a state-owned organisation of the Ministry of Railways, whi ...
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Rail transport in Nepal
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Rail transport in Pakistan
Pakistan Railways ( ur, ) is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 and headquartered in Lahore, it owns of track across Pakistan, stretching from Torkham to Karachi, offering both freight and passenger servi ...
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Rail transport in Sri Lanka
The Sri Lanka Railway Department (more commonly known as Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා දුම්රිය සේවය ''Śrī Laṃkā Dumriya Sēvaya''; Tamil: இலங்கை புகையிர ...
Southeast Asia
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Rail transport in Brunei
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Rail transport in Cambodia
Cambodia has of metre gauge rail network, consisting of two lines: one from the capital Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, and another from Phnom Penh to Poipet on the Thai border. The lines were originally constructed during the time when the co ...
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Rail transport in East Timor
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Rail transport in Indonesia
The majority of Indonesia's railways are on Java, used for both passenger and freight transport. There are three noncontinuous railway networks in Sumatra (Aceh and North Sumatra; West Sumatra; South Sumatra and Lampung) while two new networks a ...
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Rail transport in Laos
Laos has of standard gauge railways, primarily consisting of the Boten–Vientiane railway, which opened in December 2021. It also has a metre gauge railway at Thanaleng terminus connected to Thailand's railway system.
History
Due to the ...
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Rail transport in Malaysia
Rail transport in Malaysia consists of heavy rail (including commuter rail), light rapid transit (LRT), mass rapid transit
(MRT), monorails, airport rail links and a funicular railway line. Heavy rail is mostly used for intercity passenger and ...
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Rail transport in Myanmar
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Rail transportation in the Philippines
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Rail transport in Singapore
Rail transport in Singapore mainly consists of a passenger urban rail transit system spanning the entire city-state: a rapid transit system collectively known as the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system operated by the two biggest public transport op ...
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Rail transport in Thailand
The railway network of Thailand is managed and operated by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) and has a route length of 4,346 km (2,700 mi). 151 km (94 mi) or 3.47% of all the routes are electrified.
History
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Rail transport in Vietnam
The railway system in Vietnam is owned and operated by the state-owned Vietnam Railways ( vi, Đường sắt Việt Nam). The principal route, the single track North-South Railway running between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, accounts for of th ...
Western Asia
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Rail transport in Abkhazia
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Rail transport in Armenia
South Caucasus Railway ( hy, Հարավկովկասյան երկաթուղի, ՀԿԵ, russian: Южно-Кавказская железная дорога, ЮКЖД) is the sole railway company in Armenia, owned by Russian Railways, responsible ...
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Rail transport in Azerbaijan
Rail transport in Azerbaijan is operated by the national state-owned railway company Azerbaijan Railways ( az, Azərbaycan Dəmir Yolları). The railway network consists of , its gauge is ( Russian broad gauge), are double track and are electr ...
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Rail transport in Bahrain
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Cyprus Government Railway
The Cyprus Government Railway was a narrow gauge railway network that operated in Cyprus from October 1905 to December 1951. With a total length of , there were 39 stations, stops and halts, the most prominent of which served Famagusta, Prast ...
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Rail transport in Georgia
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Rail transport in Iran
Rail or rails may refer to:
Rail transport
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Rail transport in Iraq
Iraqi Republic Railways Company (IRR; ar, الشركة العامة لسكك الحديد العراقية) is the national railway operator in Iraq.
Network
IRR comprises of . IRR has one international interchange, with Chemins de Fer Syrien ...
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Rail transport in Israel
Rail transport in Israel includes heavy rail (inter-city, commuter, and freight rail) as well as light rail. Excluding light rail, the network consists of of track, and is undergoing constant expansion. All of the lines are standard gauge and as ...
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Rail transport in Jordan
With the exception of a railway system, Jordan has a developed public and private transportation system. There are three international airports in Jordan. The Hedjaz Jordan Railway runs one passenger train a day each way.
Roadways
In 2009 ...
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Rail transport in Kuwait
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Rail transport in Lebanon
Rail transport in Lebanon began in the 1890s as French projects under the Ottoman Empire but largely ceased in the 1970s owing to the country's civil war. The last remaining routes ended for economic reasons in the 1990s. At its peak Lebanon had ...
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Cyprus Government Railway
The Cyprus Government Railway was a narrow gauge railway network that operated in Cyprus from October 1905 to December 1951. With a total length of , there were 39 stations, stops and halts, the most prominent of which served Famagusta, Prast ...
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Rail transport in Oman
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Rail transport in Palestine
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Rail transport in Qatar This article is about transport in Qatar.
Public transport
In 2002, the Qatari government launched Mowasalat, a company 100% owned by the government, managed and operated by the state authorities to ensure the smooth provision of integrated grou ...
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Rail transport in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) ( ar, المؤسسة العامة للخطوط الحديدية) is one of two state-owned companies that operates Saudi Arabia's rail network along with Saudi Railway Company. The SRO operates a network of ...
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Rail transport in Syria
General Establishment of Syrian Railways ( ar, المؤسسة العامة للخطوط الحديدية, french: Chemins de fer syriens, CFS) is the national railway operator for the state of Syria, subordinate to the Ministry of Transportation ...
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Rail transport in Turkey
Turkey has a state-owned railway system built to standard gauge () which falls under the remit of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. The primary rail carrier is the ''Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları'' (TCDD) (Turkish S ...
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Rail transport in the United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates has a very limited rail network. Plans for such a public transportation system only rose to prominence in the late 2000s, and various entities has since developed or are developing the following railways:
Urban
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Rail transport in Yemen
Europe
Eastern Europe
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Rail transport in Albania
The railways in Albania are administered by the national railway company '' Hekurudha Shqiptare'' (HSH) (Albanian: ''Albanian Railways''). It operates a standard-gauge railway gauge () rail system in Albania. All trains are hauled by Czechoslova ...
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Rail transport in Belarus
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Rail transport in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Railway operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina are successors of the Yugoslav Railways within the country boundaries following independence from Yugoslavia in March 1992.
Overview
The two companies operating services (in their respective divisi ...
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Rail transport in Bulgaria
Transport in Bulgaria is dominated by road transport, despite nearly half of all paved roads belonging to the lowest category of roads. As of December 2015, the country had 829 kilometers of highways.
Buses play a significant role in long-dista ...
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Rail transport in Croatia
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Rail transport in the Czech Republic
Rail transport in the Czech Republic carried 193.5 million passengers in 2019, and 68.37 million tonnes of cargo in the year 2009.České dráhy Group, Statistical Yearbook 2009, available online on http://www.cd.cz The majority of passenger serv ...
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České dráhy
České dráhy (English: ''Czech Railways''), often shortened to ČD, is the major railway operator in the Czech Republic providing regional and long-distance services.
Overview
The company was established in 1993, after the dissolution of Czec ...
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Rail transport in Estonia
The rail transport system in Estonia consists of about of railway lines, of which are currently in public use. The infrastructure of the railway network is mostly owned by the state and is regulated and surveyed by the Estonian Technical Survei ...
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Rail transport in Hungary and
MÁV
Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...
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Rail transport in Kosovo
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Rail transport in Latvia
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Rail transport in Lithuania
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Rail transport in Moldova
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Railways of Montenegro
Rail transport in Montenegro is operated by four separate companies, which independently handle railway infrastructure, passenger transport, cargo transport and maintenance of the rolling stock. The four companies were a part of public company ''R ...
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Rail transport in North Macedonia
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Rail transport in Poland
The Polish railways network consists of around of track as of 2019, of which is electrified. National electrification system is 3 kV DC.
Poland is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), its UIC Country Code is 51.
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Rail transport in Romania and
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Rail transport in Russia
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Rail transport in Serbia
Serbian Railways ( sr, Железнице Србије/''Železnice Srbije'', abbr. ŽS or ЖС) is a Serbian engineering and technical consulting company based in Belgrade, Serbia.
In 2015, the Government of Serbia established three new comp ...
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Rail transport in Slovakia
Rail transport in Slovakia began on September 21st 1840, with the opening of the first horse-powered line from Bratislava to Svätý Jur (at that time in the Kingdom of Hungary). The first steam-powered line, from Bratislava to Vienna, opened on ...
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Rail transport in Slovenia
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Rail transport in Ukraine
Rail transport in Ukraine is a mode of transport by railway in Ukraine. Railway infrastructure transport in Ukraine in majority is owned by government of Ukraine through Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) that officially has a country-wide monopo ...
Northern Europe
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Rail transport in Denmark
The rail transport system in Denmark consists of 2,633 km of railway lines, of which the Copenhagen S-train network, the main line Helsingør-Copenhagen-Padborg (at the German border), and the Lunderskov-Esbjerg line are electrified. Most t ...
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Danske Statsbaner
DSB, an abbreviation of ''Danske Statsbaner'' (, ''Danish State Railways''), is the largest Danish train operating company, and the largest in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train operation on most of the Danish railways, go ...
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Rail transport in Finland
The Finnish railway network consists of a total track length of of railways built with broad commonly known as Russian gauge track, of which of track is electrified. Passenger trains are operated by the state-owned enterprise VR that runs se ...
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Rail transport in Iceland As of January 2023, Iceland does not have a public railway system. However there have been three small railways in the past. The main reasons for the lack of railways are the small population, competition with automobile traffic, and the harsh envir ...
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Rail transport in Norway and
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Rail transport in Ireland
Rail transport in Ireland (InterCity, commuter and freight) is provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
Most routes in the Republic radiate from Dublin. Northern Ireland ha ...
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Rail transport in Sweden
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 15006.25 km of track, the 22nd largest in the world. Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned ...
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Rail transport in United Kingdom and
Commuter rail in the United Kingdom
Urban or suburban rail plays a key role in public transport in many of the United Kingdom's major cities. Urban rail refers to the train service between city centres and suburbs or nearby towns that acts as a main mode of transport for travell ...
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Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ...
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Rail transport in Great Britain
The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in the world. The first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825, which was followed by an era of rapid expansion. Most of the track is managed by Network Rail, which in ...
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
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Rail transport in Ireland
Rail transport in Ireland (InterCity, commuter and freight) is provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.
Most routes in the Republic radiate from Dublin. Northern Ireland ha ...
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Rail transport in the Isle of Man
Southern Europe
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Rail transport in Andorra
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Cyprus Government Railway
The Cyprus Government Railway was a narrow gauge railway network that operated in Cyprus from October 1905 to December 1951. With a total length of , there were 39 stations, stops and halts, the most prominent of which served Famagusta, Prast ...
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TrainOSE
Hellenic Train S.A., formerly TrainOSE S.A. ( el, ΤραινΟΣΕ Α.Ε., pronounced ''trenosé'') is a private railway company in Greece which currently operates passenger and freight trains on OSE lines. TrainOSE was acquired in September 201 ...
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Railways of Greece and
Hellenic Railways Organisation
The Hellenic Railways Organisation or OSE ( el, Οργανισμός Σιδηροδρόμων Ελλάδος, italic=yes or el, Ο.Σ.Ε.) is the Greek national railway company which owns, maintains and operates all railway infrastructure in ...
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Rail transport in Italy
The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of of which active lines are 16,723 km. The network has recently grown with the construction of the new high-speed rail netw ...
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Trenitalia
Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail tra ...
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Malta Railway
The Malta Railway was the only railway line ever on the island of Malta, and it consisted of a single railway line from Valletta to Mdina. It was a single-track line in metre gauge, operating from 1883 to 1931. The railway was known locally in ...
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Rail transport in Portugal
Several companies provide rail transport in Portugal.
* Comboios de Portugal
* Fertagus
* Lisbon Metro
* Porto Metro
* Metro Transportes do Sul ( light rail)
Portugal is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country ...
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Comboios de Portugal
CP — Comboios de Portugal, EPE (''CP''; English: ''Trains of Portugal'') is a state-owned company which operates passenger trains in Portugal. Before June 2009, CP stood for Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses (English: ''Portuguese Railways'') ...
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Infraestruturas dePortugal
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Rail transport in Spain
Rail transport in Spain operates on four rail gauges and services are operated by a variety of private and public operators. The total route length in 2012 was 16,026 km (10,182 km electrified).
Most railways are operated by Renfe Op ...
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Rail transport in Vatican City
The Vatican Railway ( it, Ferrovia Vaticana) was opened in 1934 to serve Vatican City and its only station, Vatican City ( , or ). The main rail tracks are standard gauge and long, with two freight sidings, making it the shortest national ra ...
Western Europe
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Rail transport in Austria
Rail transport in Austria is mainly owned by the national rail company ÖBB. The railway network consists of 6,123 km, its gauge is and 3,523 km are electrified.
Austria is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The ...
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Austrian Federal Railways
Austrian may refer to:
* Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent
** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law
* Austrian German dialect
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Rail transport in Belgium
Belgium has an extensive rail network. It is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Belgium is 88.
History
On May 5, 1835, the first railway in continental Europe opened between Brussels-Groendreef/All ...
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NMBS/SNCB
french: Société nationale des chemins de fer belgesgerman: Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen
, type = Statutory corporation
, industry = Rail Transport
, foundation = 1926
, founder = Government o ...
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Infrabel
Infrabel is a Belgian government-owned public limited company. It builds, owns, maintains and upgrades the Belgian railway network, makes its capacity available to railway operator companies, and handles train traffic control.
Infrabel was creat ...
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Rail transport in France
Rail transport in France is marked by a clear predominance of passenger traffic, driven in particular by high-speed rail. The SNCF, the national state-owned railway company, operates most of the passenger and freight services on the national net ...
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Rail transport in Germany
, Germany had a railway network of , of which were electrified and were double track. Germany is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Germany is 80.
Germany was ranked fourth among national European r ...
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Deutsche Bahn
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Rail transport in Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein's one railway line is operated by Austrian Federal Railways. As such, it represents an exception to the more usual Liechtenstein practice of co-operating closely with Switzerland, as in the case of the principality's use of the Swis ...
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Rail transport in Luxembourg
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Rail transport in Monaco
The Principality of Monaco has currently a single railway station, Monaco - Monte Carlo, part of the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway line. The station was originally opened in 1867, but extensively rebuilt in 1999. The length of railway within ...
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Rail transport in the Netherlands
Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network which connects nearly all major towns and cities. There are as many train stations as there are municipalities in the Netherlands. The network totals on of track; a line may run bot ...
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Trains in the Netherlands
The following are current and former trains in the Netherlands.
In use
Diesel locomotives
* 600 Class: Traditional shunter used in the Netherlands & UK. They are still used at Crailoo (between Bussum and Hilversum) by Railpro.
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Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and t ...
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Rail transport in Switzerland
The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-alp freight system. This is made necessary by strong regulations ...
North America
Caribbean
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Rail transport in Antigua and Barbuda
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Rail transport in the Bahamas
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Rail transport in Barbados
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Rail transport in Bermuda
The Bermuda Railway was a common carrier line that operated in Bermuda for a brief period (October 31, 1931 – May 1, 1948). In its 17 years of existence, the railway provided frequent passenger and freight service over its length spann ...
, private automobiles were not allowed.
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Rail transport in Cuba
Ferrocarriles de Cuba (FCC) or Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Cuba (English: National Railway Company of Cuba), provides passenger and freight services for Cuba.
Route network
Ferrocarriles de Cuba uses that extends from Guane (province Pinar de ...
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Rail transport in Dominica
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Rail transport in the Dominican Republic
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Rail transport in Grenada
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Rail transport in Haiti
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Rail transport in Jamaica Kingston railway station, closed since 1992, as seen in 2007
The Railways of Jamaica, constructed from 1845, were the second British Colony after Canada's Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad of 1836 to receive a railway system.[Rail transport in Puerto Rico
Rail transport in Puerto Rico currently consists of a passenger metro system in the island's metropolitan area of San Juan. Its history can be traced back to the mid-19th century with the construction of a limited passenger line in Mayagüez. B ...]
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Rail transport in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Transport in Saint Christopher and Nevis (a two-island federation) includes normal road traffic, public buses, taxis, ferries, airports, and one railway.
Basseterre is the hub for all major roads in Saint Christopher. Charlestown, Nevis is the equ ...
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Rail transport in Saint Lucia
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Rail transport in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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Transport in Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago, a country that relies heavily on industrialisation and tourism, has various transport systems.
Air service
Trinidad is the larger island, with a business-oriented economy and the seat of the country's government. Piarco Inter ...
Central America
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Rail transport in Belize
There is no active Rail transport in Belize, although there were lines in the past.
Overview
Historically, one of the major railways in Belize was the Stann Creek Railway used by United Fruit, which connected Middlesex Estate with the port of D ...
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Rail transport in Costa Rica
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Rail transport in El Salvador
At present (2022), no trains are operated in El Salvador. The national railroad corporation is FENADESAL (Ferrocarriles Nacionales de El Salvador), a division of CEPA (Comisión Ejecutiva Portuaria Autónoma, port authority). It oversees 554. ...
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Rail transport in Guatemala
Guatemala has a network of narrow gauge railroads, passenger and freight trains currently run.
History
Construction of the first railway in Guatemala commenced in 1877 and the first section began operation in 1880, connecting Puerto San J ...
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Rail transport in Honduras
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Rail transport in Nicaragua
As of 2012, there is no rail transport in Nicaragua. All traffic has been suspended since September 2001, ending several decades of a steady decline. In the past, there were gauge railroads on the Pacific coast, connecting major cities. A priv ...
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Rail transport in Panama
Northern America
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Rail transport in Canada
Canada has a large and well-developed railway system that primarily transports freight. There are two major publicly traded transcontinental freight railway systems, Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP). Nationwide passenger service ...
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Rail transportation in the United States
Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments, with a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads extending into Canada and Mexico. Passenger service is mainly mass transit and commute ...
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Rail transport in Mexico
Mexico has a freight railway system owned by the national government and operated by various entities under concessions (charters) granted by the national government. The railway system provides freight and passenger service throughout the coun ...
Oceania
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Rail transport in Australia
Rail transport in Australia is a component of the Australian transport system. It is to a large extent state-based, as each state largely has its own operations, with the interstate network being developed ever since Australia's federation i ...
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Rail transport in Nauru
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Rail transport in Fiji Rail transport in Fiji moves cut sugar cane to crushing mills. Also, there used to be two horse-drawn street tramway systems, some other passenger systems, an underground mine system, and some tramways on construction projects. There are multiple ot ...
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Rail transport in New Zealand
Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries. Rail trans ...
Railways also existed in
New Caledonia,
Makatea
Makatea, or Mangaia-te-vai-tamae, is a raised coral atoll in the northwestern part of the Tuamotus, which is a part of the French overseas collectivity of French Polynesia. It is located southwest from Rangiroa to the west of the Palliser gro ...
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New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
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Saipan and
Banaba
BanabaThe correct spelling and etymology in Gilbertese should be ''Bwanaba'' but the Constitution of Kiribati writes Banaba. Because of the spelling in English or French, the name was very often written Paanapa or Paanopa, as it was in 1901 Ac ...
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South America
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Rail transport in Argentina
The Argentine railway network consisted of a network at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of the most extensive and prosperous in the world. However, with the increase in highway construction, there followed a sharp decl ...
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Rail transport in Bolivia
The Bolivian rail network has had a peculiar development throughout its history.
History
Gauges
All railways in Bolivia are now Metre gauge. The Antofagasta to Uyuni line was originally gauge.
Maps
File:Railway map of Bolivia 1942 ...
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Rail transport in Brazil
Rail transport in Brazil began in the 19th century and there were many different railway companies. The railways were nationalised under RFFSA (Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima) in 1957. Between 1999 and 2007, RFFSA was broken u ...
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Rail transport in Chile
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Rail transport in Colombia
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Rail transport in Ecuador
The Ferrocarriles del Ecuador Empresa Pública (Ecuadorian Railways Company) is the national railway of Ecuador. The railway system was devised to connect the Pacific coast with the Andean highlands. After many decades of service the railway was se ...
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Transport in French Guiana
Transport in French Guiana consists of transport by road, boat, bus, and airplane. There is a railway line within the Guiana Space Centre to transport spacecraft. The road network is mainly concentrated in the coastal region. The interior of Guian ...
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Transport in Guyana The transport sector comprises the physical infrastructure, docks and vehicle, terminals, fleets, ancillary equipment and service delivery of all the various modes of transport operating in Guyana. The transport services, transport agencies providi ...
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Rail transport in Paraguay
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Rail transport in Peru
Rail transport in Peru has a varied history. Peruvian rail transport has never formed a true network, primarily comprising separate lines running inland from the coast and built according to freight need rather than passenger need.
Many Peruvia ...
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Transport in Suriname
The Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname) has a number of forms of transport. Transportation emissions are an increasing part of Suriname's contributions to climate change, as part of the Nationally Determined Contributions for the Par ...
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Rail transport in Uruguay
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Rail transport in Venezuela
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Camber Railway
The Camber Railway was a narrow gauge railway located on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It was one of the most southerly railways in the world.
The Camber Railway was constructed to support the Admiralty wireless station, suppl ...
for former railway
See also
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High-speed rail
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List of countries by rail transport network size
This list of countries by rail transport network size based on International Union of Railways data ranks countries by length of rail lines worked at end of year updated with other reliable sources. These figures also include urban/suburban mass ...
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List of countries by rail usage
This is a list of countries by rail usage. Usage of rail transport may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for freight and passenger transport respectively. This is the number of tonnes or passengers ...
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Railway coupling by country
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List of locomotive builders
This is a list of locomotive builders by country, including current and defunct builders. Many of the companies changed names over time; this list attempts to give the most recognisable name, generally the one used for the longest time or during ...
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List of railway companies
This is an incomplete list of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the past.
In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not compani ...
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List of rolling stock manufacturers
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock. Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinct ...
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List of track gauges
This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails.
Track gauges by size
Minimum and ridable miniature railways
For ridable miniature railways and minimum gauge railways, t ...
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List of tram manufacturers
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Transportation engineering
Transportation engineering or transport engineering is the application of technology and scientific principles to the planning, functional design, operation and management of facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for t ...
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Rail transport
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a p ...
References
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Further reading
* Nock, O. S. ''Steam railways in retrospect'' (1966
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways at the zenith of steam, 1920-40'' (1970
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways in the years of preeminence 1905-1919'' (1971
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways in the formative years, 1851-1895'' (1973
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways in the transition from steam, 1940-1965'' (1974
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways then and now: a world history'' (1975
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways of Western Europe'' (1977
online* Nock, O. S. ''Encyclopedia of Railways'' (1977)
* Nock, O. S. ''World atlas of railways'' (1978
online* Nock, O. S. ''Railways of the USA'' (1979
online* Nock, O. S. ''150 years of main line railways'' (1980
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