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The Havana Suburban Railway (Spanish: Red del ferrocarril suburbano de La Habana) is a passenger suburban rail network serving the city of Havana, capital of Cuba, and its suburbs. Owned by the national company Ferrocarriles de Cuba, it represents the only suburban rail system of the Caribbean island.
Central Railway Station has a network of suburban, interurban and long-distance rail lines. The railways are nationalised and run by the FFCC ( Ferrocarriles de Cuba – Railways of Cuba). Rail service connects the Central Rail Station to various Cuban provinces .
Boxcar used on Cuban Central Railway to transport sugar cane. ca 1913 Flatcar used by the Cuban Central Railway for transportation of sugar plantations, circa 1913. American-born Canadian railway builder Sir William Cornelius Van Horne helped expand Cuba's railway network in the early 20th century. He was an investor in the Cuba Railroad ...
National Railway Company of Cuba; H. Havana Suburban Railway; Hershey Electric Railway This page was last edited on 17 December 2013, at 21:41 (UTC). ...
Havana Suburban Railway; V. Vía Blanca This page was last edited on 10 April 2013, at 03:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Railway network in Cuba. total: 8,285 km; standard gauge: 8,125 km 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) gauge (105 km electrified) narrow gauge: 160 km of 2 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (699 mm) gauge. [1] Hershey Electric Railway. Cuba built the first railway system in the Spanish empire, before the 1848 start in the Iberian peninsula.
Shanghai Suburban Railway: 1 8 56.4 Shaoxing: Shaoxing Tourism New Transit railway: 1 5 80.2 Taizhou: Taizhou Urban Train: 2 5 104.338 San José Costa Rica: Interurbano Line: 3 32 72 Split Croatia: Split Suburban Railway: 1 7 17.8 156 [21] Zagreb: Zagreb Commuter Rail: 1 19 47 Havana Cuba: Havana Suburban Railway: 8 Prague Czech Republic: Esko ...
The railway is the only surviving electric line in Cuba. [2] The railway was built by The Hershey Company to transport sugar to the port of Havana. The original electric interurban cars were bought from the JG Brill Company , but these were replaced by 60-year old cars from the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya in the 1990s.