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North-South Railway (Portuguese: Ferrovia Norte-Sul), also known as EF-151, is a Brazilian longitudinal broad-gauge railroad. It was designed to connect the lines that provide access to Brazil's main ports and producing areas, which had been regionally isolated.
Norte Brasil Railway Map of Brazilian rail network, 2016. The Brazilian railway network has an extension of about 30,000 km (18,641 mi). It is basically used for transporting ores. [5] Usually, the railway sector was treated in a secondary way in Brazil, due to logistical, economic or political difficulties to install more railways.
Brazil today has only a few heritage railways and two long-distance trains operated by Vale on narrow gauge that are more of a tourist attraction because of the scenic journey than a transportation system, especially because of the slow operating speed (60 km/h maximum), making Brazil's land public transportation infrastructure one of the worst ...
PeruRail train at Machupicchu in May 2007 PeruRail train at Machupicchu [1] in May 2007. PeruRail operate the narrow-gauge railway train Cusco - Machu Picchu line, the last station Aguas Calientes. The other train operating on the line is the luxury "Hiram Bingham" run by a WagonLit Inc of Europe (part of Orient Express company) and is ...
In the 1870s, the Companhia São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro build the Estrada de Ferro do Norte, a railway that connected São Paulo to cities of the Paraíba Valley. In 1890, this railway was incorporated by Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (EFCB), connecting São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. It is currently divided in lines 11-Coral and 12-Sapphire.
The Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima (RFFSA, pronounced as Refesa) (lit. ' Federal Railroad Network, S.A. ') was the State-owned national railway company of Brazil created from Brazilian Federal Law #3.115 on March 16, 1957, after several railroads were nationalized by the Brazilian government.
The Sistema de Trens Urbanos de Natal (Natal Urban Trains System) is the metropolitan train system of the Natal Metropolitan Region in Brazil. It is operated by the Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU).
Campinas is one of Brazil's largest regional centers, it is just 90 km north of São Paulo, and has its own Metropolitan area with over 3 million inhabitants, Jundiaí is a 400.000 inhabitants city in between them, and Americana is a 200.000 inhabitants city in the north limit of the Campinas Region. The journey from São Paulo to Jundiaí ...