Railways In 36 editions of 36.

• 239,430 km of narrow gauge track;
• 710,754 km of standard gauge track;
• 251,153 km of broad gauge track;
• includes about 190,000 to 195,000 km of electrified routes of which 147,760 km are in Europe, 24,509 km in the Far East, 11,050 km in Africa, 4,223 km in South America, and only 4,160 km in North America;
• fastest speed in daily service is 300 km/hr attained by France's SNCF TGV-Atlantique line

• 4,060 km total;
• 2,616 km standard gauge (1.435 m), 1,188 km 1.055-meter gauge, 256 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 300 km electrified;
• 215 km double track

• 3,189 km total;
• 2,879 km 1.067-meter gauge, 310 km 0.600-meter gauge;
• limited trackage in use because of landmines still in place from the civil war;
• majority of the Benguela Railroad also closed because of civil war

578 km, all 1.000-meter gauge, single track

712 km 1.067-meter gauge

• 620 km total;
• 520 km Ouagadougou to Cote d'Ivoire border and 100 km Ouagadougou to Kaya;
• all 1.00-meter gauge and single track

1,003 km total; 858 km 1.000-meter gauge, 145 km 0.600-meter gauge

• 5,254 km total;
• 3,968 km 1.067-meter gauge (851 km electrified);
• 125 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 136 km 0.615-meter gauge;
• 1,025 km 0.600-meter gauge;
• limited trackage in use because of civil strife

797 km, 1.067-meter gauge, single track (includes 285 km that are privately owned)

660 km (Burkina border to Abidjan, 1.00-meter gauge, single track, except 25 km Abidjan-Anyama section is double track)

the Ethiopian-Djibouti railroad extends for 97 km through Djibouti

• 5,110 km total;
• 4,763 km 1,435-meter standard gauge, 347 km 0.750-meter gauge;
• 951 km double track;
• 25 km electrified

• 307 km total;
• 307 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 307 km 0.950-meter gauge (nonoperational) linking Ak'ordat and Asmera with the port of Mits'iwe (1993 est.)

297 km (plus 71 km disused), 1.067-meter gauge, single track

• 781 km total;
• 781 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 307 km 0.950-meter gauge linking Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Djibouti;
• control of railroad is shared between Djibouti and Ethiopia

649 km 1.437-meter standard-gauge single track (Transgabonese Railroad)

• 953 km, all 1.067-meter gauge;
• 32 km double track;
• railroads undergoing major renovation

1,045 km; 806 km 1.000-meter gauge, 239 km 1.435-meter standard gauge

short line going to a jetty

2,040 km 1.000-meter gauge

2.6 km; owned, operated by, and included in the statistics of South Africa

• 480 km total;
• 328 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 152 km 1.067-meter narrow gauge;
• all lines single track;
• rail systems owned and operated by foreign steel and financial interests in conjunction with Liberian Government

• Libya has had no railroad in operation since 1965, all previous systems having been dismantled;
• current plans are to construct a standard gauge (1.435 m) line from the Tunisian frontier to Tripoli and Misratah, then inland to Sabha, center of a mineral rich area, but there has been no progress;
• other plans made jointly with Egypt would establish a rail line from As Sallum, Egypt to Tobruk with completion set for mid-1994, progress unknown

1,020 km 1.000-meter gauge

789 km 1.067-meter gauge

642 km 1.000-meter gauge; linked to Senegal's rail system through Kayes

690 km 1.435-meter (standard) gauge, single track, owned and operated by government mining company

1,893 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (246 km double track, 974 km electrified)

• 3,288 km total;
• 3,140 km 1.067-meter gauge;
• 148 km 0.762-meter narrow gauge;
• Malawi-Nacala, Malawi-Beira, and Zimbabwe-Maputo lines are subject to closure because of insurgency

2,341 km 1.067-meter gauge, single track

3,505 km 1.067-meter gauge

1,034 km 1.000-meter gauge; all single track except 70 km double track Dakar to Thies

84 km 1.067-meter narrow-gauge mineral line is used on a limited basis because the mine at Marampa is closed

• 20,638 km route distance total;
• 20,324 km of 1.067-meter gauge trackage (counts double and multiple tracking as single track);
• 314 km of 610 mm gauge;
• substantial electrification of 1.067 meter gauge

5,516 km total; 4,800 km 1.067-meter gauge, 716 km 1.6096-meter-gauge plantation line

• 3,555 km total;
• 960 km 1.067-meter gauge (including the 962 km Tazara Railroad);
• 2,595 km 1.000-meter gauge, including 6.4 km double track;
• 115 km of 1.000-meter gauge planned by end of decade

570 km 1.000-meter gauge, single track

• 2,115 km total;
• 465 km 1.435-meter (standard) gauge;
• 1,650 km 1.000-meter gauge

1,300 km, 1.000-meter-gauge single track

1,266 km, all 1.067-meter gauge; 13 km double track

2,745 km 1.067-meter gauge (including 42 km double track, 355 km electrified)

9.6 km (single track) 1.524-meter gauge from Kushka (Turkmenistan) to Towraghondi and 15.0 km from Termez (Uzbekistan) to Kheyrabad transshipment point on south bank of Amu Darya

• 840 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• 2,090 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

2,892 km total (1986); 1,914 km 1.000 meter gauge, 978 km 1.676 meter broad gauge

• total about 64,000 km;
• 54,000 km of common carrier lines, of which 53,400 km are 1.435-meter gauge (standard) and 600 km are 1.000-meter gauge (narrow);
• 11,200 km of standard gauge common carrier route are double tracked and 6,900 km are electrified (1990);
• an additional 10,000 km of varying gauges (0.762 to 1.067-meter) are dedicated industrial lines

• 1,570 km, does not include industrial lines (1990)

• 61,850 km total (1986);
• 33,553 km 1.676-meter broad gauge, 24,051 km 1.000-meter gauge, 4,246 km narrow gauge (0.762 meter and 0.610 meter);
• 12,617 km is double track;
• 6,500 km is electrified

• 27,327 km total;
• 2,012 km 1.435-meter standard gauge and 25,315 km predominantly 1.067-meter narrow gauge;
• 5,724 km doubletrack and multitrack sections, 9,038 km 1.067-meter narrow-gauge electrified, 2,012 km 1.435-meter standard-gauge electrified (1987)

• 14,460 km (all 1.520-meter gauge); does not include industrial lines (1990)

• 4,915 km total;
• 4,250 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 665 km 0.762-meter narrow gauge;
• 159 km double track;
• 3,084 km electrified;
• government owned (1989)

• 3,091 km total (1991);
• 3,044 km 1.435 meter standard gauge, 47 km 0.610-meter narrow gauge, 847 km double track;
• 525 km electrified, government owned

• 370 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• 1,750 km 1.524-meter broad gauge (1988)

• 52 km (1990), all 0.762-meter narrow gauge;
• all in Terai close to Indian border;
• 10 km from Raxaul to Birganj is government owned

• 8,773 km total;
• 7,718 km broad gauge, 445 km 1-meter gauge, and 610 km less than 1-meter gauge;
• 1,037 km broad-gauge double track;
• 286 km electrified;
• all government owned (1985)

• 158,100 km all 1.520-meter broad gauge;
• 86,800 km in common carrier service, of which 48,900 km are diesel traction and 37,900 km are electric traction;
• 71,300 km serves specific industry and is not available for common carrier use (31 December 1991)

• 1,948 km total (1990);
• all 1.868-meter broad gauge;
• 102 km double track;
• no electrification;
• government owned

• 480 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• 2,120 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• 3,460 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

64 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge and 13 km 0.610-meter gauge used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane

950 km total, all 1.067-meter gauge; 260 km electrified

• 12,947 km total;
• Cuban National Railways operates 5,053 km of 1.435-meter gauge track;
• 151.7 km electrified;
• 7,742 km of sugar plantation lines of 0.914-m and 1.435-m gauge

1,655 km total in numerous segments; 4 different gauges from 0.558 m to 1.435 m

602 km 0.914-meter gauge, single track; 542 km in use

privately owned, narrow-gauge plantation lines

1,019 km 0.914-meter gauge, single track; 917 km government owned, 102 km privately owned

40 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge, single-track, privately owned industrial line

785 km total; 508 km 1.067-meter gauge, 277 km 0.914-meter gauge

294 km, all 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track

• 373 km 1.067-meter narrow gauge, government owned;
• majority of system not operating;
• 3 km 1.435-meter gauge line at Puerto Cabezas (does not connect with mainline)

238 km total; 78 km 1.524-meter gauge, 160 km 0.914-meter gauge

96 km rural narrow-gauge system for hauling sugarcane; no passenger railroads

58 km 0.760-meter gauge on Saint Kitts for sugarcane

minimal agricultural railroad system near San Fernando

• 543 km total;
• 509 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track and 34 km narrow gauge, single track (1990);
• line connecting Titograd (Serbia and Montenegro) and Shkoder (Albania) completed August 1986

• 5,749 km total;
• 5,652 km government owned and 97 km privately owned (0.760-, 1.435- and 1.000-meter gauge);
• 5,394 km 1.435-meter standard gauge of which 3,154 km is electrified and 1,520 km is double tracked;
• 339 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge of which 84 km is electrified

• 5,570 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,568 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government owned;
• 2,563 km double track;
• 2,207 km electrified

NA km

• 4,300 km total, all government owned (1987);
• 4,055 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 245 km narrow gauge;
• 917 km double track;
• 2,640 km electrified

2,592 km of standard guage (1.435 m) of which 864 km are electrified (1992); note - disrupted by territorial dispute

9,434 km total (1988)

• 2,770 km;
• Danish State Railways (DSB) operate 2,120 km (1,999 km rail line and 121 km rail ferry services);
• 188 km electrified, 730 km double tracked;
• 650 km of standard-gauge lines are privately owned and operated

• 1,030 km (includes NA km electrified); does not include industrial lines (1990)

5,924 km total; Finnish State Railways (VR) operate a total of 5,863 km 1.524-meter gauge, of which 480 km are multiple track and 1,445 km are electrified

• French National Railways (SNCF) operates 34,322 km 1.435-meter standard gauge;
• 12,434 km electrified, 15,132 km double or multiple track;
• 99 km of various gauges (1.000-meter), privately owned and operated

western:

• 31,443 km total;
• 27,421 km government owned, 1.435-meter standard gauge (12,491 km double track, 11,501 km electrified);
• 4,022 km nongovernment owned, including 3,598 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (214 km electrified) and 424 km 1.000-meter gauge (186 km electrified)

eastern:

• 14,025 km total;
• 13,750 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 275 km 1.000-meter or other narrow gauge;
• 3,830 (est.) km 1.435-meter standard gauge double-track;
• 3,475 km overhead electrified (1988)

1.000-meter-gauge system in dockyard area only

• 2,479 km total;
• 1,565 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, of which 36 km electrified and 100 km double track;
• 892 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 22 km 0.750-meter narrow gauge;
• all government owned

850 m, 750 mm gauge (links with Italian network near the Rome station of Saint Peter's)

• 7,765 km total;
• 7,508 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 222 km narrow gauge (mostly 0.760-meter), 35 km 1.520-meter broad gauge;
• 1,236 km double track, 2,249 km electrified;
• all government owned (1990)

• Irish National Railways (CIE) operates 1,947 km 1.602-meter gauge, government owned;
• 485 km double track;
• 37 km electrified

60 km; 36 km electric track, 24 km steam track

• 20,011 km total;
• 16,066 km 1.435-meter government-owned standard gauge (8,999 km electrified);
• 3,945 km privately owned - 2,100 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (1,155 km electrified) and 1,845 km 0.950-meter narrow gauge (380 km electrified)

• 2,400 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

18.5 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, electrified; owned, operated, and included in statistics of Austrian Federal Railways

• 2,100 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• Luxembourg National Railways (CFL) operates 272 km 1.435-meter standard gauge;
• 178 km double track;
• 178 km electrified

• 1,150 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

1.6 km 1.435-meter gauge

2,828 km 1.435-meter standard gauge operated by Netherlands Railways (NS) (includes 1,957 km electrified and 1,800 km double track)

NA

• 4,223 km 1.435-meter standard gauge;
• Norwegian State Railways (NSB) operates 4,219 km (2,450 km electrified and 96 km double track);
• 4 km other

• 26,250 km total;
• 23,857 km 1.435-meter gauge, 397 km 1.520-meter gauge, 1,996 km narrow gauge;
• 8,987 km double track;
• 11,510 km electrified;
• government owned (1991)

• 3,625 km total;
• state-owned Portuguese Railroad Co. (CP) operates 2,858 km 1.665-meter gauge (434 km electrified and 426 km double track), 755 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 12 km (1.435-meter gauge) electrified, double track, privately owned

• 11,275 km total;
• 10,860 km 1.435-meter gauge, 370 km narrow gauge, 45 km broad gauge;
• 3,411 km electrified, 3,060 km double track;
• government owned (1987)

NA

3,669 km total (1990)

• 1,200 km, 1.435 m gauge (1991)

• 15,430 km total;
• Spanish National Railways (RENFE) operates 12,691 km (all 1.668-meter gauge, 6,184 km electrified, and 2,295 km double track);
• FEVE (government-owned narrow-gauge railways) operates 1,821 km (predominantly 1.000-meter gauge, 441 km electrified);
• privately owned railways operate 918 km (predominantly 1.000-meter gauge, 512 km electrified, and 56 km double track)

• 12,000 km total;
• Swedish State Railways (SJ) - 10,819 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 6,955 km electrified and 1,152 km double track;
• 182 km 0.891-meter gauge;
• 117 km rail ferry service;
• privately-owned railways - 511 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (332 km electrified) and 371 km 0.891-meter gauge (all electrified)

• 4,418 km total;
• 3,073 km are government owned and 1,345 km are nongovernment owned;
• the government network consists of 2,999 km 1.435-meter standard gauge and 74 km 1.000-meter narrow gauge track;
• 1,432 km double track, 99% electrified;
• the nongovernment network consists of 510 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, and 835 km 1.000-meter gauge, 100% electrified

• 22,800 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

• UK, 16,914 km total;
• Great Britain's British Railways (BR) operates 16,584 km 1.435-meter (standard) gauge (including 4,545 km electrified and 12,591 km double or multiple track), several additional small standard-gauge and narrow-gauge lines are privately owned and operated;
• Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) operates 330 km 1.600-meter gauge (including 190 km double track)

• one line,
• abandoned and in disrepair,
• some trackage remains

• 4,852 km total;
• 4,760 km 1.432-meter gauge, 92 km 1.676-meter gauge;
• 480 km under construction from Bafq to Bandar-e Abbas, rail construction from Bafq to Sirjan has been completed and is operational;
• section from Sirjan to Bandar-e Abbas still under construction

2,457 km 1.435-meter standard gauge

600 km 1.435-meter gauge, single track; diesel operated

789 km 1.050-meter gauge, single track

none

system in disrepair, considered inoperable

1390 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; 448 km are double tracked

1,998 km total; 1,766 km standard gauge, 232 km 1.050-meter (narrow) gauge

8,429 km 1.435-meter gauge (including 795 km electrified)

• 146,444 km total;
• two major transcontinental freight railway systems - Canadian National (government owned) and Canadian Pacific Railway;
• passenger service - VIA (government operated);
• 158 km is electrified

24,500 km total

240,000 km of mainline routes, all standard 1.435 meter track, no government ownership (1989)

none

• 40,478 km total;
• 7,970 km 1.600-meter gauge, 16,201 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 16,307 km 1.067-meter gauge;
• 183 km dual gauge;
• 1,130 km electrified;
• government owned (except for a few hundred kilometers of privately owned track) (1985)

644 km 0.610-meter narrow gauge, belonging to the government-owned Fiji Sugar Corporation

3.9 km; used to haul phosphates from the center of the island to processing facilities on the southwest coast

• 4,716 km total;
• all 1.067-meter gauge;
• 274 km double track;
• 113 km electrified;
• over 99% government owned

none

none

none

none

• 34,172 km total (includes 209 km electrified);
• includes a mixture of 1.435-meter standard gauge, 1.676-meter broad gauge, 1.000-meter narrow gauge, and 0.750-meter narrow gauge

3,684 km total, all narrow gauge; 3,652 km 1.000-meter gauge and 32 km 0.760-meter gauge, all government owned, single track

• 28,828 km total;
• 24,864 km 1.000-meter gauge, 3,877 km 1.600-meter gauge, 74 km mixed 1.600-1.000-meter gauge, 13 km 0.760-meter gauge;
• 2,360 km electrified

• 7,766 km total;
• 3,974 km 1.676-meter gauge, 150 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 3,642 km 1.000-meter gauge;
• 1,865 km 1.676-meter gauge and 80 km 1.000-meter gauge electrified

3,386 km; 3,236 km 0.914-meter gauge, single track (2,611 km in use), 150 km 1.435-meter gauge

965 km total; all 1.067-meter-gauge single track

187 km total, all single track 0.914-meter gauge

970 km total; 440 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 60 km 1.000-meter gauge, 470 km various narrow gauge (privately owned)

1,801 km total; 1,501 km 1.435-meter gauge, 300 km 0.914-meter gauge

• 166 km total;
• 86 km 1.000-meter gauge, government owned, and 80 km 1.435-meter standard gauge;
• all single track

3,000 km, all 1.435-meter (standard) gauge and government owned

• 542 km total;
• 363 km 1.435-meter standard gauge all single track, government owned;
• 179 km 1.435-meter gauge, privately owned

13 km 0.610-meter narrow-gauge private line

• 3,991 km total, all government owned;
• 3,878 km 1.000-meter gauge, 113 km narrow-gauge industrial lines;
• 362 km double track

612 km 1.000-meter gauge, government owned

35 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government owned

• 6,964 km total;
• 6,389 km 1.067-meter gauge, 497 km 0.750-meter gauge, 78 km 0.600-meter gauge;
• 211 km double track;
• 101 km electrified;
• all government owned

none

Peninsular Malaysia:

1,665 km 1.04-meter gauge; 13 km double track, government owned

Sabah:

136 km 1.000-meter gauge

Sarawak:

none

• 378 km operable on Luzon, 34% government owned (1982)

38 km of 1.000-meter gauge

• about 4,600 km total track with 1,075 km common carrier lines and 3,525 km industrial lines;
• common carrier lines consist of the 1.067-meter gauge 708 km West Line and the 367 km East Line;
• a 98.25 km South Link Line connection was completed in late 1991;
• common carrier lines owned by the government and operated by the Railway Administration under Ministry of Communications;
• industrial lines owned and operated by government enterprises

3,940 km 1.000-meter gauge, 99 km double track

3,059 km total; 2,454 1.000-meter gauge, 151 km 1.435-meter (standard) gauge, 230 km dual gauge (three rails), and 224 km not restored to service after war damage