Railway lines

AiRail Service is offered by Deutsche Bahn AG in cooperation with Lufthansa German Airlines, American Airlines, and Emirates. ...more on Wikipedia about "AiRail Service"

Appanooose County Railroad is a swtiching road located in southeastern Iowa. Its main route links the county seats of Centerville (Appanoose County) and Albia (Monroe County). ...more on Wikipedia about "Appanooose County Railroad"

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire planned to construct a Baghdad Railway under German control. It became a source of international tension, played an important role in the origins of the First World War ( Jastrow, see literature below), and has only partly been realised. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baghdad Railway"

Barcelona-Mataró was the first railway built in Spain, in 1848. Its construction is often cited as marking the start of industrialization in the country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barcelona-Mataró"

The Betuweroute is a new freight railway being constructed from Rotterdam to Germany. It is named after the Betuwe area through which it passes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Betuweroute"

Botniabanan is the name of the new rail line being built in northern Sweden. Set to be completed in 2010, it will add about 190 km of X2000 capable high-speed rail capacity, with 140 bridges and more than 25 km of tunnels. Its route will be from Kramfors airport via Örnsköldsvik to Umeå. ...more on Wikipedia about "Botniabanan"

The Central Line is a major railway line in Tanzania. It runs west from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma via Dodoma. A branch leads to Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika and from Tabora to Mwanza. The construction of the line opened up trade between Lake Tanganyika and the east coast and spurred the growth of the ports at its termini. ...more on Wikipedia about "Central Line (Tanzania)"

The Chemin de more fer de la mure (the Railway of the Wall) is an electrified railway near Grenoble. Built between 1882 and 1886, this railway is widely known for its unique location on top of a brick embankment and bridge. The railway was electrified 1903, using a symmetrical current power supply with two overhead wires at 1200V. In 1950, this non-standard system was replaced with a conventional power supply at 2400V. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chemin de fer de la mure"

The Chihuahua al Pacífico Railroad, known as ChP or "Chepe", is a major rail line in northwest Mexico, linking the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, to the town of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, near the Pacific coast. It runs 650 km (400) miles, passing through the Copper Canyon, a beautiful and rugged series of canyons that have led some to call this the most scenic railroad trip on the continent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chihuahua al Pacífico"

The China Far East Railway (a.k.a. Chinese Eastern Railway, CER) was a railway connecting China and the Russian Far East. English-speakers referred to key strategic portions of this line as the Manchurian Railway. Russians know this railway as , or (Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga, KVZhD). ...more on Wikipedia about "China Far East Railway"

The Ferrovia Circumetnea (roughly translated as "Railway around the Etna") is a narrow-gauge regional railway line in Sicily. It was constructed from 1889 to 1895. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circumetnea"

Circumvesuviana is a narrow-gauge railway connecting cities near Naples, Italy. Its tracks encicle Mt. Vesuvius, hence the name. Of interest to tourists is the route from the main train station in Naples to the ruins at Pompeii, which takes about 40 minutes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circumvesuviana"

The Congo-Ocean Railway (COR, or CFCO) links the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire (now in the Republic of Congo) with Brazzaville. It bypasses the rapids on the lower Congo River; from Brazzaville river boats are able to ascend the Congo River and its tributary, the Oubangui River to Bangui. ...more on Wikipedia about "Congo-Ocean Railway"

The Dakar-Niger Railway connects Dakar, ( Senegal) to Koulikoro, ( Mali). It serves many cities in Senegal (including Thiès) and Mali (including Kayes, Kita, Kati, Bamako). The line covers a course of 1,287 km of which 641 km lies in Mali. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dakar-Niger Railway"

The Death Railway (known also as Burma Railway or Burma Thai Railway) was a railway built from Thailand to Burma (now Myanmar) by the Japanese during World War II to complete the route from Bangkok to Rangoon and support the Japanese occupation of Burma. It was so called because of the human cost of its construction. About 100,000 conscripted Asian labourers and 16,000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) died on the project. The Allied POWs were made up of 6,318 British, 2,815 Australians, 2,490 Dutch and the remainder from the USA or unknown (Wigmore, p588). ...more on Wikipedia about "Death Railway"

The 1050mm gauge Hejaz railway (also Hedjaz, etc.) ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Arabia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hejaz railway"

The Hell Valley Railway is a railway line in the Höllental (Hell Valley) region of the Black Forest, Germany. The line connects Freiburg with Donaueschingen, a distance of 25.4 kilometers (15.8 miles). Over its entire course the line rises from an altitude of 278 metres (912 feet) in Freiburg to 885 metres (0.54 miles) in Hinterzarten. The second half of the route has a 5.5% upward gradient, making the Hell Valley line one of the steepest railway lines in Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hell Valley Railway"

The Iron Rhine ( Dutch: IJzeren Rijn / German: Eiserner Rhein) is a freight railway connecting the port of Antwerp in Belgium to Mönchengladbach in Germany by way of Neerpelt and the Dutch towns of Weert and Roermond. ...more on Wikipedia about "Iron Rhine"

The Killesberg Railway Stuttgart is a park railway operating since 1939 on the elevator park Killesberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It drives on a round course, 2294.35 meters long, and possesses a track width of 381 mm. It has the steam engines "Tazzelwurm" and "Springerle" with the wheel arrangement 2'C`1 delivered on May 30, 1950. In addition, the Killesbergbahn Stuttgart has two diesel locomotives: the "Blitzschwoab" (year of construction: 1950) and the "Schwoabapfeil" (year of construction: 1992). The Killesbergbahn Stuttgart drives daily during the summer months; however, the steam engines are used only at sunning and holidays. The Killesbergbahn was formerly operated by the Stuttgart Fair company and today by a promotion association. ...more on Wikipedia about "Killesberg Railway Stuttgart"

The Kleinbahn Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld was a narrow-gauge railway linking the cities of Breckerfeld and Voerde with Haspe to the bergisch-märkischen Eisenbahn. Construction lasted from 1901 to 1906. The original owners were: ...more on Wikipedia about "Kleinbahn Haspe-Voerde-Breckerfeld"

LanQing railway is the first step of an ambitious plan set by the People's Republic of China to connect Tibet with the rest of China by railway. LanQing railway, designed in 1956 and built from May 1958 to September 1959, runs 188 Kilometers long, connecting Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, and Xining, the capital city of Qinghai province. It is currently the only railway that connects Qinghai-Tibet region with the rest of China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lanqing Railway"

The Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway (兰州新疆铁路线) is a railway in the People's Republic of China. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway"

The following is a list of railways in the People's Republic of China . ...more on Wikipedia about "List of railways in China"

The Mauritania Railway consists of a single, 704 km railway line linking the iron mining center of Zouerate with the port of Nouadhibou. The state agency Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) controls the railway line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mauritania Railway"

* 1826: The Granite Railway was incorporated March 4, 1826 by Gridley Bryant. Construction began on April 1, 1826, and operations began on October 7, 1826. It later became a branch of the Old Colony Railroad (which became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad). This is often called the first railroad in the U.S., and may have been the first to evolve into a common carrier without an intervening closure. It also may have been the first to be chartered. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oldest railroads in North America"

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