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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
Brazil is the fifth-largest country in the world and had a hundred tram systems, almost as many as all the other Latin American countries combined. It had one of the world's first tramways: an 1859 system in Rio de Janeiro pre-dates street railway experiments in all European countries except France.
Map of the world with rail density (length of rail network divided by area of country) highlighted. This does not necessarily reflect actual rail use. This is a list of countries by rail usage. Usage of rail transport may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for freight and passenger transport ...
No trains run on these tracks and the cleared path for one of Brazil’s most ambitious infrastructure projects is used only by local cars. Railway to nowhere shows Brazil's infrastructure woes ...
Brazil: see Rail transport in Brazil ... List of countries by rail transport network size; List of countries by rail usage; Railway coupling by country;
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.
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 ...
Overall, Brazil has the largest number of metros, with 12 such systems, followed by Venezuela with 4 metro systems. The Mexico City Metro has the highest passenger ridership from a single operator in Latin America , and second in the Americas , after the New York City Subway .