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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
China: see Rail transport in China ... Cyprus: see Cyprus Government Railway Greece: ... List of countries by rail usage;
The opening of the short-lived Woosung Road, the first railway in China, between Shanghai and Wusong in 1876. The first recorded railway track to be laid in China was a 600-metre (1,969 ft) long miniature gauge demonstration line that a British merchant assembled outside the Xuanwumen city gate at Beijing in 1865 to demonstrate rail technology. [14]
Map showing the Greek railway system c.1901–1902. Rail transport in Greece has a history which began in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the majority of the network was built, reaching its heyday in 1940. From the 1950s onward, the railway system entered a period of decline ...
Individual China Rail Passenger routes displayed in Google Maps with timetable (Chinese and English) Railway map of China (1). Showing double track lines, electrified lines and planned lines in detail around year 2001. Railway map of China (2). Showing railway network in 1990s. Railway map of China (3). Showing railway network in 1980s.
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 ...
Projected HSR network in China by 2020 and travel time by rail from Beijing to provincial capitals. China's high-speed railway network is by far the longest in the world.As of December 2022, it extends to 31 of the country's 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and exceeds 40,000 km (25,000 mi) in total length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in ...
As of December 2024, China has the world's longest urban rail transit system with 11,000.88 km (6,835.63 mi) of urban rail nationwide in 310 metro lines in 47 cities, accounting for 9 of the 10 longest metro systems, with the exceptions of the Moscow Metro. [2] Half of the top 10 busiest metro systems are in China, [3] and the Shanghai Metro ...