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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
Japan's railways carried 9.147 billion passengers (260 billion passenger-kilometres) in the year 2013–14. [3] In comparison, Germany has over 40,000 km (25,000 mi) of railways, but carries only 2.2 billion passengers per year. [4] Because of the massive use of its railway system, Japan is home to 46 of the world's 50 busiest stations. [5]
230,000 km (140,000 mi) were in Asia and used for both freight and passenger service. [1] In America and Europe, many low-fare airlines and motorways compete with rail for passenger traffic. Asia has experienced a large growth in high-speed rail: its 257bn passenger-kilometres represent 72% of total world high-speed rail passenger traffic. [1]
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 ...
The first railway was built between Tokyo's Shimbashi Station and Yokohama's former Yokohama Station (now SakuragichÅ Station) in 1872. [7] Many more railways developed soon afterward. Modern Japan is home to one of the world's most developed transport networks. Mass transport is well developed in Japan, but the road system lags and is ...
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 ...
1918 Toppan Printing Co. map of Japanese Railways. The history of rail transport in Japan began in the late Edo period. There have been four main stages: [1] Stage 1, from 1872, the first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama, to the end of the Russo-Japanese war; Stage 2, from nationalization in 1906-07 to the end of World War II;
Japan was the first country to build dedicated railway lines for high-speed travel. Because of the mountainous terrain, the existing network consisted of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge lines, which generally took indirect routes and could not be adapted to higher speeds due to technical limitations of narrow-gauge rail.