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As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the eastern states, the line is economically and strategically important. The railway includes the world's longest section of completely straight track. The inaugural passenger train service was known as the Great Western Express; later, it became the Trans-Australian.
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: Has a 4 km section of pier railway (so is outside the definition for this article) 096 Burundi: Had an internal port railway 108 Cape Verde: Had a harbour railway 132
The China Railway G403/4, G405/6 and D939/40 Beijing–Kunming high-speed train (2,653 km, 10 hours 43 minutes to 14 hours 54 minutes), which began service on January 1, 2017, is the longest high-speed rail service in the world. The previous record-holder was the likewise Chinese Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway at 2,230 km.
With the Amur River Line north of the Chinese border being completed in 1916, there was a continuous railway from Petrograd to Vladivostok that, to this day, is the world's second longest railway line. Electrification of the line, begun in 1929 and completed in 2002, allowed a doubling of train weights to 6,000 metric tons (5,900 long tons ...
A BNSF train of loaded well cars (or double-stack cars) at Caliente, California, United States. A Canadian National Railway double-stack container train.. 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) – United States – a June 2024 third-party study over 10 days in Arizona found that Union Pacific routinely runs intermodal trains of more than 5,500 m (18,000 ft) in length, of which the longest was a 6,100-metre ...
[9] [10] With a route length of 57.09 km (35.5 mi), [5] it is the world's longest railway and deepest traffic tunnel [11] [12] [13] [note 1] and the first flat, low-level route through the Alps. [14] Located at the heart of the Gotthard axis, it is the third tunnel to connect the cantons of Uri and Ticino , after the Gotthard Tunnel and the ...
The Indian Pacific is a regular passenger train crossing the Nullarbor from Perth to Sydney via Adelaide. The railway line has the longest straight section of railway in the world (478 km; 297 mi), [32] while the Eyre Highway (refer below) contains the longest straight section of tarred road in Australia (146 km; 91 mi).
The Indian Pacific is a weekly experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that runs in Australia's east–west rail corridor between Sydney, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the shore of the Indian Ocean – thus, like its counterpart in the north–south corridor, The Ghan, one of the few truly transcontinental trains in the world.