Southern Railway or Southern Railroad may refer to:

Argentina

Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway The Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (BAGS) () was one of the ''Big Four'' Indian gauge, broad gauge, , British-owned companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina. The company was founded by Edward Lumb in 1862 and the f ...

, Argentina

Australia

Main Southern railway line, New South Wales The Main Southern Railway (or Great Southern Railway) is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs from Sydney to Albury, near the Victoria, Australia, Victorian border. The line passes through the Southern Highlands, New South Wal ...

, Australia *

Southern railway line, Queensland The Southern railway line serves the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The long line branches from the Western railway line, Queensland, Western line at Toowoomba railway station, Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, and proceeds south t ...

, Australia

Austria

Austrian Southern Railway The Austrian Southern Railway () is a long double track railway, which linked the capital Vienna with Trieste, the former main seaport of Austria-Hungary, by railway for the first time. It now forms the Southern Railway in Austria and the Spi ...

Southern Railway (Austria) The Southern Railway () is a railway in Austria that runs from Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austr ...

Canada

* Canada Southern Railway, part of the New York Central Railroad *

New Brunswick Southern Railway The New Brunswick Southern Railway Company Limited is a Canadian short line railway owned by the New Brunswick Railway Company Limited, a holding company that is part of "Irving Transportation Services", a division within the industrial conglo ...

, part of the Canadian Pacific Railway * Quebec Southern Railway *

Southern Railway of British Columbia The Southern Railway of British Columbia, branded as SRY Rail Link is a Canadian short line railway operating in southwestern British Columbia. The main facility is the port at Annacis Island with major import of cars, export of forestry produ ...

India

Southern Mahratta Railway Southern Mahratta Railway (SMR) was a railway company in British India founded in 1882. History Captain Charles Cooper Johnson, officiating as constructing engineer of railways in 1858, forwarded the proposal for a railway to be constructed an ...

, a railway company in British India founded in 1882 * Southern Punjab Railway, India *

Southern Railway zone Southern Railway (SR) is one of the eighteen zones of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Chennai and operates across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the union territory of Puducherry. The origin of the Southern Rai ...

, India

United Kingdom

Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway) Southern is the brand name used by the Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) train operating company on the Southern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise in England. It is a subsidiary of Govia, a joint venture between tra ...

Southern Railway (UK) The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the Railways Act 1921, 1923 Grouping. It linked London with the English Channel, Channel ports, South West England, Seaside resort#Briti ...

, 1923–47

United States

Alabama Great Southern Railroad The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia (U.S.), Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS), running southwest from Chatt ...

* Alton and Southern Railway, Illinois * Arkansas Southern Railroad, part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway *

California Southern Railroad The California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) in Southern California. It was organized July 10, 1880, and chartered on October 23, 1880, to build a rail connection between wha ...

* Dakota Southern Railway, South Dakota * Georgia Southern Railroad * Illinois Southern Railway, part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad *

Indiana Southern Railroad The Indiana Southern Railroad is a Class III, short line railroad operating in the United States state of Indiana. It began operations in 1992 as a RailTex property and was acquired by RailAmerica in 2000. RailAmerica was itself acquired by Gen ...

Iowa Southern Railroad The Iowa Southern Railroad was a shortline railroad in southern Iowa, operating a former Wabash Railroad line between Council Bluffs and Blanchard. It was abandoned except at Council Bluffs on August 22, 1988, and in August 1990 the remaining track ...

, part of the Wabash Railway *

Kansas Southern Railway The Kansas Southern Railway operated from December 11, 2000, until 2002 as a subcontractor of the V&S Railway. It operated on about 43 miles (69 km) of track between Attica, Kansas, and Sun City, Kansas. It interchanged with the BNSF Railw ...

, part of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway *

Louisiana Southern Railway The Louisiana Southern Railway Company (LS) was a railroad in southern Louisiana, chartered in 1897 as successor to several short lines which had operated along the Mississippi River, including Mississippi, Terre aux Boeuf, and Lake; New Orleans ...

, part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad *

Minnesota Southern Railway The Minnesota Southern Railway was a shortline railroad in the states of Minnesota and South Dakota in the United States. History as Chicago and North Western Railway The dominant railroad in southern Minnesota was the Chicago and North Western ...

, part of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad *

Montana Southern Railway The Montana Southern Railway, now defunct, was an American narrow gauge railroad constructed between Divide, Montana and the mining district of Coolidge, Montana. The short-lived line was noteworthy in that it was the last common carrier narro ...

New Jersey Southern Railroad New Jersey Southern RR and connections The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run ...

, and New Jersey Southern Railway *

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

, Virginia *

Southern Alabama Railroad The Southern Alabama Railroad was a shortline railroad formerly operating between a connection with CSX Transportation at Troy to Goshen, Alabama, about . The railroad currently exists as the Conecuh Valley Railroad subsidiary of Gulf and Ohio ...

Southern California Railway Southern California Railway was formed on November 7, 1889. It was formed by consolidation of California Southern Railroad Company, the California Central Railway Company, and the Redondo Beach Railway Company. A second consolidation and reformi ...

Southern Railroad of New Jersey The Southern Railroad of New Jersey is a small short-line railroad company based in Winslow Township, New Jersey. The railroad operates freight service in two areas in Southern New Jersey. In the Winslow area, trains operate out of Winslow Junc ...

Southern Railway – Carolina Division The Southern Railway – Carolina Division was one of the first railroads chartered in the United States. The South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company was chartered in South Carolina in 1827, eventually building a line from Charleston, South C ...

Southern Railway (U.S.) The Southern Railway (also known as Southern Railway Company; ) was a class 1 railroad based in the Southern United States between 1894 and 1982, at which time it merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) to form the Norfolk Southern R ...

, now part of the Norfolk Southern Railway * Tennessee Southern Railroad, part of the Illinois Central Railroad * Vermont Southern Railroad, part of the Boston and Maine Railroad * Virginia Southern Railroad

Elsewhere

* Southern Railway (Turkey) * Southern Railway (Württemberg), Germany *

Southern Railways (Ukraine) The Southern Railways (SR) (, ) is a composing part of Ukraine's Ukrzaliznytsia railroad company and is headquartered in Kharkiv. Southern Railways's route map covers all railroads of the Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv, Poltava Oblast, Poltava and some r ...

* Southern Xinjiang railway, China