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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
The first incentive to start building a rail network in Brazil occurred in 1828, when the then imperial government incentivized the building of all transport roads. The first significant try to build a railway was the founding on an Anglo-Brazilian company in Rio de Janeiro in 1832, which planned to connect the city of Porto Feliz to the port ...
Country Million passengers Data year Notes 1 Japan: 25,201 2019 [7] Includes all public and private rail services. For only the JR group rail companies, the figure in 2019 was 9,503 million passengers. [7] 2 India: 8,439 2019 Includes Indian Railways suburban and intercity traffic only, excludes the passengers carried by rapid transit systems.
The government's goal is to have 40% of Brazil's freight, which is mostly iron ore, transported by rail, up from 17% today. Little of Brazil's growing grain output is carried by rail. ($1 = 4.9350 ...
Brazil even invested 1.5% of the country's budget in infrastructure in the 1970s, being the time when the most investment was made in highways; but in the 1990s, only 0.1% of the budget was invested in this sector, maintaining an average of 0.5% in the 2000s and 2010, insufficient amounts for the construction of an adequate road network.
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 .
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1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) railways are found in the northern half of the country. The Old Patagonian Express ( La Trochita ) is a 402 km-long 750 mm ( 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) narrow-gauge railway in the Andean foothills of Patagonia , now running as two portions of its original length, and only as a tourist attraction.