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North-South Railway (Portuguese: Ferrovia Norte-Sul), also known as EF-151, is a Brazilian longitudinal broad-gauge railroad.It was designed to connect the lines that provide access to Brazil's main ports and producing areas, which had been regionally isolated.
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.
Brazil is densely populated on the coast and southeast regions, making passenger train operation highly feasible; some areas, like the area north and east of São Paulo, have an extremely high demand for passenger trains, [10] with, for example, over 4 million inhabitants in the 150 km area north of Greater São Paulo and over 3 million ...
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 ...
The EF-315 is also interconnected with two other railway lines: São Luís–Teresina Railway and Norte-Sul Railway. The first crosses states in the Northeast region and the second crosses the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Goiás, Minas Gerais and São Paulo, facilitating the export of grains and industrialized products through the Port of ...
The Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima (RFFSA, pronounced as Refesa) (lit. ' Federal Railroad Network, S.A. ') was the State-owned national railway company of Brazil created from Brazilian Federal Law #3.115 on March 16, 1957, after several railroads were nationalized by the Brazilian government.
In the 1870s, the Companhia São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro build the Estrada de Ferro do Norte, a railway that connected São Paulo to cities of the Paraíba Valley. In 1890, this railway was incorporated by Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil (EFCB), connecting São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. It is currently divided in lines 11-Coral and 12-Sapphire.
BR Express (Botswana Railways) 1 3 Crato–Juazeiro do Norte Brazil: Cariri Metro: Metrô do Cariri: 9 5,000 [16] Fortaleza: Fortaleza Metro (Metrofor) [Note 1] Metrofor: 2 28 43 31,000 João Pessoa: Sistema de Trens Urbanos de João Pessoa: CBTU João Pessoa: 1 12 30 10,000 Maceió: Maceió Urban Rail: CBTU Maceio: 1 15 34.3 11,000 Natal ...