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Railway map of France in 2020. Other versions of this map in medium et large formats. This is a list of railway lines in France , belonging either to the national network ( SNCF Réseau ) or to private owners.
1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) railways are found in the northern half of the country.. The Old Patagonian Express (La Trochita) is a 402 km-long 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) narrow-gauge railway in the Andean foothills of Patagonia, now running as two portions of its original length, and only as a tourist attraction.
In South America, Argentina and Chile use 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) track gauge, as well as 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) or metre gauge. Brazil uses 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) (known as "Irish gauge", most common for passenger services and a few corridors in the Southeast) and 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) (known as "narrow gauge" or "metre gauge", most common for cargo services).
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 ...
South America rail transport stubs (2 C, 47 P) South American railway station stubs (80 P) Pages in category "Rail transport in South America"
A high-speed train TGV Duplex from the SNCF TGV 4402 operation V150 reaching 574 km/h (357 mph) on 3 April 2007 near Le Chemin. SNCF operates almost all of France's railway traffic, including the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, meaning "high-speed train"). In the 1970s, the SNCF began the TGV high-speed train program with the intention of ...
The Demerara-Berbice Railway, built in then British Guiana (now Guyana), was the first railway system on the South American continent. [1] It was 4 ft 8½ ins (1,435 mm) standard gauge and first operated by the Demerara Railway Company, a private concern, but sold to the Colonial Transport Department of the Government, which assumed control ...
Proposed railway lines in South America (3 C, 2 P) S. Railway lines in Suriname (1 P) U. Railway lines in Uruguay (5 P) V. Railway lines in Venezuela (3 C)