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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
For railway companies that are no longer in existence, see the List of former German railway companies. The bulk of the railway network in Germany belongs to DB Netz , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG – this situation is a relic from the time when the Deutsche Bundesbahn and Deutsche Reichsbahn had a monopoly.
Planned high-speed rail link Paris—Bratislava. The Magistrale for Europe [1] [2] (German: Magistrale für Europa; [3] French: Magistrale européenne [4]) or Main Line for Europe [5] is a Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) project for the creation of a high-speed railway line between Paris and Bratislava, with a branch-off to Budapest. [1]
The state-run regional administrations which formed part of the Royal Bavarian State Railways were initially referred to as "railway offices" (Bahnämter) and "main railway offices" (Oberbahnämter). The latter were located in Augsburg, Bamberg, Ingolstadt, Kempten, Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Weiden and Würzburg. [2]
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
These are all the TGV (French: train à grande vitesse, meaning high-speed train) stations, listed alphabetically. This list includes new stations constructed specifically for the TGV as well as existing stations that are simply served by the trains. Stations located in countries other than France are marked with the country in parentheses.
Due to the number of railway stations it shows a selection of the principal stations and links to related state articles. Where there are 2 or more passenger stations in a large town or city, the most important is often designated by Deutsche Bahn as Hauptbahnhof (German for "central station"), of which there are 122 in total.
As of 20 August 2014 over 48,000 stolpersteine had been laid in 18 European countries, [5] making the project the world's largest memorial and on 11 January 2015 Stolperstein 50,000 was installed in Turin, Italy for Eleonora Levi. [6]