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Countries with defunct rail networks [83] 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
Unlike countries such as the United States, where mainline freight rail electrification is nonexistent, a relatively large percentage of European freight rails are electrified because freight trains usually use the same lines as passenger trains (nearly 57% of railway lines in the European Union are electrified). [1]
350,000 km (218,000 mi) were in Europe and mainly used for passenger service, 370,000 km (230,000 mi) were in North America and mainly used for freight, and; 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.
Nock, O. S. Railways in the transition from steam, 1940-1965 (1974) online Nock, O. S. Railways then and now: a world history (1975) online Nock, O. S. Railways of Western Europe (1977) online
The ERA sets standards for European railways in the form of ERA Technical Specifications for Interoperability, which apply to the Trans-European Rail network. The first EU directive for railways requires allowing open access operations on railway lines by companies other than those that own the rail infrastructure. It does not require ...
Swiss BLS BLS Re4 class electric locomotive. Austria Graz-Köflacher Eisenbahn (GKB); Salzburger Lokalbahn (SLB); Steiermärkische Landesbahnen (STLB); Zillertalbahn (ZB); Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút (GySEV) – Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurth-Eisebahnen (ROeEE)
“This will be the network's most northern point, the starting point of 215km of railway in Estonia and 870km across the three Baltic States,” said Anvar Salomets, CEO of Rail Baltica Estonia ...
In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities. Particularly in many European countries beginning in the late-1980s, with privatizations and the separation of the track ownership and management from running the trains, there are now many track-only companies and train-only companies.