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Countries with defunct rail networks [88] Country Comment ISO 3166-1 Antigua and Barbuda: Had agricultural / industrial lines 028 Bahamas: Had a plantation railway 044 Barbados: Had a public railway. Has a 3 km tourist line opened in 2019. 052 Belize: Had one public railway and a number of private lines 084 Brunei
This article provides a list of operational and under construction (or approved) high-speed rail networks, listed by country or region. While the International Union of Railways defines high-speed rail as public transport by rail at speeds of at least 200 km/h (124 mph) for upgraded tracks and 250 km/h (155 mph) or faster for new tracks, this article lists all the systems and lines that ...
Map of the world with rail density (length of rail network divided by area of country) highlighted. This does not necessarily reflect actual rail use. 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 ...
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes, mass rapid transit (MRT), metrô or U-Bahn. As of 22 December 2024, 204 cities in 65 countries operate 891 metro lines.
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
Railway lines in New Zealand (7 C, 120 P) Railway lines in Nigeria (4 P) Railway lines in North Macedonia (1 C, 2 P) Railway lines in Norway (28 C, 35 P) P.
There are 148 countries listed as having railways, and 35 in the "no-railway" list, totaling 183 countries. There are 193 members in the United Nations, and many lists mention up to 236 sovereign nations and dependencies. Thus many countries are not represented.
The national railway network grew to about 4,400 miles (7,100 km) of track, and private railways were relegated to providing local and regional services. [4] In the 1980s the process of privatising Japanese National Railways begun that is not entirely finished as of 2016 with both entirely state and private members of the JR Group .