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3 ft 6 in gauge railways

Index 3 ft 6 in gauge railways

Railways with a track gauge of were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways. [1]

130 relations: Abraham Fitzgibbon, Blekinge, Botswana Railways, British Empire, Cape Colony, Cape Government Railways, Cape Province, Carl Abraham Pihl, Cartagena, Spain, Charles Douglas Fox, Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer), Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse, Chinese Eastern Railway, Colony of Natal, Congo–Ocean Railway, Edmund Morel (railway engineer), Edmund Wragge, Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos, England, France, Gautrain, Germany, Ghana Railway Corporation, Great Venezuela Railway, Heritage railway, History of rail transport in Haiti, History of rail transport in Nicaragua, Hong Kong Tramways, Japan Railways Group, John Charles Molteno, List of track gauges, Little Eaton Gangway, Loading gauge, Luzon, Malawi Railways, Minimum railway curve radius, Mozambique Ports and Railways, Narrow-gauge railways in Canada, Narrow-gauge railways in China, National Railways of Zimbabwe, Netherlands, New Brunswick Railway, Newfoundland Railway, Nigerian Railway Corporation, North Australia Railway, Norway, Panay, Panay Railways, Philippine National Railways, Pichi Richi Railway, ..., Portland Street Railway Company, Prince Edward Island Railway, Queensland Rail, Rail gauge in Australia, Rail transport, Rail transport in Angola, Rail transport in Australia, Rail transport in Botswana, Rail transport in Canada, Rail transport in Costa Rica, Rail transport in Estonia, Rail transport in Ghana, Rail transport in Honduras, Rail transport in Hong Kong, Rail transport in Indonesia, Rail transport in Ireland, Rail transport in Japan, Rail transport in Malawi, Rail transport in Namibia, Rail transport in New South Wales, Rail transport in New Zealand, Rail transport in Nicaragua, Rail transport in Nigeria, Rail transport in Norway, Rail transport in Panama, Rail transport in Queensland, Rail transport in Russia, Rail transport in Sierra Leone, Rail transport in South Africa, Rail transport in South Australia, Rail transport in South Sudan, Rail transport in Spain, Rail transport in Sudan, Rail transport in Sweden, Rail transport in Taiwan, Rail transport in Tanzania, Rail transport in Tasmania, Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rail transport in the Isle of Man, Rail transport in the Netherlands, Rail transport in the Philippines, Rail transport in the United Kingdom, Rail transport in Turkey, Rail transport in Western Australia, Rail transport in Zambia, Rail transportation in the United States, Railway Systems of Zambia, Røros Line, Real Madrid C.F., Robert Francis Fairlie, Rolling stock, Russo-Japanese War, Sakhalin Railway, Setesdal Line, Shinkansen, Sierra Leone, Snaefell Mountain Railway, South Manchuria Railway, Standard-gauge railway, State Railways Institution, Suburb, Swazi Rail, T. V. Bulpin, Taiwan Railways Administration, Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS, TAZARA Railway, Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United Kingdom, Toronto and Nipissing Railway, Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, Track gauge, Track gauge conversion, Tram, Trams in Panama, TransNamib, Transnet, Transport in Barbados, United Kingdom, Wagonway, Wales, Zig Zag Railway. Expand index (80 more) »

Abraham Fitzgibbon

Abraham 'Abram' Fitzgibbon (23 January 1823 – 4 April 1887) was an Irish-born railroad engineer and a pioneer for narrow-gauge railways.

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Blekinge

Blekinge is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap), situated in the south of the country.

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Botswana Railways

Botswana Railways (BR) is the national railway of Botswana.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Cape Government Railways

The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.

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Cape Province

The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Provinsie van die Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province (Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape (Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa.

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Carl Abraham Pihl

Carl Abraham Pihl (16 January 1825 – 14 September 1897) was a Norwegian civil engineer and director of the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) from 1865 until his death.

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Cartagena, Spain

Cartagena (Carthago Nova) is a Spanish city and a major naval station located in the Region of Murcia, by the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Spain.

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Charles Douglas Fox

Sir (Charles) Douglas Fox (14 May 1840 – 13 November 1921) was an English civil engineer.

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Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer)

Sir Charles Fox (11 March 1810 in Derby, United Kingdom – 11 June 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor.

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Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse

The Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse, (English:Mudanya Bursa Railway), (Turkish:Mudanya Bursa Demiryolu), or CFMB was a long railway line from the port of Mudanya to Bursa.

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Chinese Eastern Railway

The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER,, Dōngqīng Tiělù; Китайско-Восточная железная дорога or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), also known as the Chinese Far East Railway and North Manchuria Railway, is the historical name for a railway across Manchuria (northeastern China).

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Colony of Natal

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa.

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Congo–Ocean Railway

The Congo–Ocean Railway (COR; Chemin de fer Congo-Océan, CFCO) links the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire (now in the Republic of Congo) with Brazzaville, a distance of.

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Edmund Morel (railway engineer)

Edmund Morel (17 November 1840 – 5 November 1871) was a British civil engineer who was engaged in railway construction in many countries, including New Zealand, Australia, and Japan.

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Edmund Wragge

Edmund Wragge CE (1837 - 26 November 1929) was a British-born and trained engineer who constructed the first common-carrier narrow gauge railways in North America.

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Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos

The Ferrocarriles del Ecuador Empresa Publica (FE EP) (Ecuadorian Railways Company) is the national railway of Ecuador.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gautrain

Gautrain is an commuter rail system in Gauteng, South Africa, which links Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekhuruleni and O. R. Tambo International Airport.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Ghana Railway Corporation

Ghana Railway Corporation operates the railways of Ghana.

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Great Venezuela Railway

The Great Venezuela Railway (Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela) was a railway from Caracas to Valencia.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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History of rail transport in Haiti

There are currently no functioning railways in Haiti and has never had any rail connections with the neighbouring Dominican Republic.

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History of rail transport in Nicaragua

The history of rail transport in Nicaragua began in 1860s, with the first plans for a railroad in Nicaragua.

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Hong Kong Tramways

Hong Kong Tramways is a tram system in Hong Kong and one of the earliest forms of public transport in the metropolis, dating back to the city's colonial period. Owned and operated by RATP Dev Transdev Asia, the tramway runs on Hong Kong Island between Shau Kei Wan and Kennedy Town, with a branch circulating through Happy Valley. Trams in Hong Kong have not only been a form of commuter transport for over 110 years, but also a major tourist attraction and one of the most environmentally friendly ways of travelling in Hong Kong. The tram system is the only one in the world operated exclusively with double-decker trams, and is one of only five non-heritage tram systems in the world that use double-deck cars the others being Blackpool Tramway, United Kingdom, Alexandria Tram, Egypt, Oranjestad, Aruba and Dubai, UAE. The tram is the cheapest mode of public transport on the island. The comparatively affordable fare is highlighted by Hong Kong Tramways' advertising slogan: "Hop on 1. $2.3. Tram so easy!".

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Japan Railways Group

The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as, consists of seven for-profit companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987.

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John Charles Molteno

Sir John Charles Molteno (5 June 1814 – 1 September 1886) was a soldier, businessman, champion of responsible government and the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.

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List of track gauges

This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size.

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Little Eaton Gangway

The Little Eaton Gangway, or, to give it its official title, the Derby Canal Railway, was a narrow gauge industrial wagonway serving the Derby Canal, in England, at Little Eaton in Derbyshire.

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Loading gauge

A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Malawi Railways

Malawi Railways was a government corporation that ran the national rail network of Malawi, Africa, until privatisation in 1999.

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Minimum railway curve radius

The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centre line of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions.

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Mozambique Ports and Railways

Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (abbreviated CFM; in English Mozambique Ports and Railways) is the parastatal authority that oversees the railway system of Mozambique and its connected ports.

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Narrow-gauge railways in Canada

Although most railways of central and eastern Canada were initially built to a broad gauge, there were several, especially in The Maritimes and Ontario, which were built as individual narrow-gauge lines.

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Narrow-gauge railways in China

The gauge for the most of the China national railway network is standard gauge.

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National Railways of Zimbabwe

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is the parastatal railway of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia).

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New Brunswick Railway

The New Brunswick Southern Railway Company Limited (NBSR) is a Canadian railway and land holding company headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick that is part of "Irving Transportation Services", a division within the J.D. Irving Limited industrial conglomerate.

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Newfoundland Railway

The Newfoundland Railway was a railway which operated on the island of Newfoundland from 1898 to 1988.

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Nigerian Railway Corporation

Nigerian Railway Corporation (commonly abbreviated as NRC) is the state-owned enterprise with exclusive rights to operate railways in Nigeria.

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North Australia Railway

The North Australia Railway (NAR), also known as the Palmerston to Pine Creek railway, was a narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory of Australia which ran from the territory capital of Darwin, once known as Palmerston, to Birdum, just south of Larrimah from 1889 to 1976.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Panay

Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth most-populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and with a total population of 4,477,247.

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Panay Railways

Panay Railways Inc.

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Philippine National Railways

The Philippine National Railways (PNR) (Pambansang Daambakal ng Pilipinas) is a state-owned railway company in the Philippines, operating a single line of track on Luzon.

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Pichi Richi Railway

The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society (PRRPS) is a non-profit railway preservation society and operating museum formed in 1973.

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Portland Street Railway Company

The Portland Street Railway Company was the first mass transit company in Portland, Oregon.

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Prince Edward Island Railway

The Prince Edward Island Railway (PEIR) was a historic Canadian railway on Prince Edward Island (PEI).

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Queensland Rail

Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.

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Rail gauge in Australia

Rail gauges in Australia display significant variations, which has presented an extremely difficult problem for rail transport on the Australian continent for over 150 years.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rail transport in Angola

Rail transport in Angola consists of three separate Cape gauge lines that do not connect: the northern Luanda Railway, the central Benguela Railway, and the southern Moçâmedes Railway (southern).

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Rail transport in Australia

Rail transport in Australia is a crucial aspect of the Australian transport network.

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Rail transport in Botswana

Rail services in Botswana are provided by Botswana Railways in Botswana.

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Rail transport in Canada

Canada has a large and well-developed railway system that today transports primarily freight.

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Rail transport in Costa Rica

Universidad de Costa Rica Station, San Pedro, Montes de Oca. Rail transport in Costa Rica is primarily under the stewardship of Incofer (Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles), an autonomous institution of the state.

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Rail transport in Estonia

The rail transport system in Estonia consists of about of railway lines, of which are currently in public use.

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Rail transport in Ghana

The railway system in Ghana has historically been confined to the plains south of the barrier range of mountains north of the city of Kumasi.

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Rail transport in Honduras

Railroads in Honduras were built in late 19th and early 20th centuries by two competing U.S. corporations - United Fruit (Tela Railroad Company) and Standard Fruit (later nationalized).

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Rail transport in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's rail network mainly comprises public transport trains operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRC).

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Rail transport in Indonesia

The majority of Indonesia's railways are on Java, used for both passenger and freight transport.

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Rail transport in Ireland

Heavy Rail services in Ireland (InterCity, commuter and freight) are provided by Iarnród Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and by Northern Ireland Railways in Northern Ireland.

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Rail transport in Japan

Rail transport in Japan is a major means of passenger transport, especially for mass and high-speed travel between major cities and for commuter transport in metropolitan areas.

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Rail transport in Malawi

Malawi Railways is the national rail network in Malawi, run by a government corporation until privatisation in 1999.

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Rail transport in Namibia

Rail service in Namibia is provided by TransNamib.

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Rail transport in New South Wales

The Australian state of New South Wales has an extensive network of railways, which were integral to the growth and development of the state.

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Rail transport in New Zealand

Rail transport in New Zealand is primarily provided by KiwiRail and focused on bulk freight, with a small number of tourist orientated passenger services, such as the, and.

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Rail transport in Nicaragua

As of 2012, there is no rail transport in Nicaragua.

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Rail transport in Nigeria

Railways in Nigeria are operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

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Rail transport in Norway

The Norwegian railway system comprises 4,087 km of (standard gauge) track of which 2,622 km is electrified and 242 km double track.

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Rail transport in Panama

Since 2008, the only functioning railroad in Panama has been the Panama Canal Railway, operated by the Panama Canal Railway Company, successor of Panama Railway, which provides passenger and freight service between Panama City (on the Pacific coast) and Colón (on the Atlantic coast).

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Rail transport in Queensland

The Queensland rail network, the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of.

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Rail transport in Russia

The Russian railways are ranked second longest globally, behind the railways of the United States.

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Rail transport in Sierra Leone

There are 84 kilometres of railway in Sierra Leone, all of which is private and of a narrow gauge,.

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Rail transport in South Africa

Rail transport in South Africa is an important element of the country's transport infrastructure.

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Rail transport in South Australia

The first railway in colonial South Australia was a horse-drawn tramway from the port of Goolwa on the Murray River to an ocean harbour at Port Elliot in 1854.

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Rail transport in South Sudan

Rail transport in South Sudan does not have an extensive rail system and current rail infrastructure, which was constructed between 1959-1962, and what has been left over from the previous Sudan government is in a serious state of disrepair.

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Rail transport in Spain

Rail transport in Spain operates on four rail gauges and services are operated by a variety of private and public operators.

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Rail transport in Sudan

Sudan has 4,725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railroads that serve the northern and central portions of the country.

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Rail transport in Sweden

Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 13,000 km of track, the 21st largest in the world.

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Rail transport in Taiwan

Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 1691.8 km (as of 2015) of railway networks.

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Rail transport in Tanzania

Rail transport in Tanzania is conducted by two companies (Tanzania Railways Corporation and TAZARA).

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Rail transport in Tasmania

Rail transport in Tasmania consists of a network of narrow gauge track of reaching virtually all cities and major towns in the island state of Tasmania, Australia.

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Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is provided by the Congo Railroad Company (Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer du Congo) and the Office National des Transports (Congo) (ONATRA) and the Office of the Uele Railways (Office des Chemins de fer des Ueles, CFU).

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Rail transport in the Isle of Man

The Isle of Man has a rich transport heritage and boasts the largest narrow-gauge railway network in the British Isles with several historic railways and tramways still in operation.

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Rail transport in the Netherlands

Rail transport in the Netherlands uses a dense railway network, that connects virtually all major towns and cities, counting as many train stations as there are municipalities in the Netherlands.

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Rail transport in the Philippines

Rail transport in the Philippines is used mostly to transport passengers within Metro Manila and the nearby province of Laguna.

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Rail transport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and previously consisted of Great Britain and the whole of Ireland.

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Rail transport in Turkey

Turkey has a well-developed, state-owned railway system built to standard gauge which falls under the remit of the Ministry of Transport and Communication.

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Rail transport in Western Australia

The Railways in Western Australia were developed in the 19th century both by the Government of Western Australia and a number of private companies.

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Rail transport in Zambia

Rail transport in Zambia is primarily provided by two companies.

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Rail transportation in the United States

Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments, while passenger service, once a large and vital part of the nation's passenger transportation network, plays a limited role as compared to transportation patterns in many other countries.

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Railway Systems of Zambia

Railway Systems of Zambia Limited (RSZ) is a private company incorporated and registered in Zambia which operates Zambia Railways.

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Røros Line

The Røros Line (Rørosbanen) is a railway line which runs through the districts of Hedmarken, Østerdalen and Gauldalen in Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

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Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol ("Royal Madrid Football Club"), commonly known as Real Madrid, or simply as Real, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain.

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Robert Francis Fairlie

Robert Francis Fairlie (born either March 1831 or 5 April 1830, in Glasgow, died 31 July 1885, in London) was a Scottish-born railway engineer.

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Rolling stock

The term rolling stock in rail transport industry originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway.

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Russo-Japanese War

The Russo–Japanese War (Russko-yaponskaya voina; Nichirosensō; 1904–05) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea.

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Sakhalin Railway

Sakhalin Railway (Сахалинская железная дорога) was a subsidiary of the Russian Railways from 1992 until 2010, when it was made part of the Far Eastern Railway.

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Setesdal Line

Setesdal Line (heritage) |operator.

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Shinkansen

The, colloquially known in English as the bullet train, is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.

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Snaefell Mountain Railway

The Snaefell Mountain Railway (Raad-Yiarn Sniaull) is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe.

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South Manchuria Railway

The South Manchuria Railway (南滿洲鐵道: Japanese Minamimanshū Tetsudō; Chinese Nánmǎnzhōu Tiědào), officially South Manchuria Railway Company (南満洲鐵道株式會社: Minamimanshū Tetsudō Kabushikigaisha; Nánmǎnzhōu Tiědào Zhūshìhuìshè), or 南鐵 Mantetsu for short (Mǎntiě in Chinese), was a large National Policy Company (国策会社) of Japan whose primary function was the operation of railways on the Dalian–Fengtian (Mukden)–Changchun (called Xinjing from 1931 to 1945) corridor in northeastern China, as well as on several branch lines.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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State Railways Institution

The State Railways Institution ("Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado", or IFE.) is a state-run organization of Venezuela that manages the railway systems of the country.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Swazi Rail

Swazi Rail (SR), also Swaziland Rail, is the national railway corporation of Swaziland.

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T. V. Bulpin

Thomas Victor (T. V.) Bulpin (1918–1999) was a South African writer.

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Taiwan Railways Administration

The Taiwan Railways Administration is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan responsible for managing, maintaining, and running passenger and freight services on 1097 km of conventional railroad lines in Taiwan.

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Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS

Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (TLT) is a transportation company owned by the city of Tallinn, Estonia.

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TAZARA Railway

The TAZARA Railway, also called the Uhuru Railway or the Tanzam Railway, is a railway in East Africa linking the port of Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania with the town of Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia's Central Province.

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Three foot six inch gauge railways in the United Kingdom

One of the first railways using gauge track was the Little Eaton Gangway in England, constructed as a horse-drawn wagonway in 1795.

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Toronto and Nipissing Railway

The Toronto and Nipissing Railway, T&N, was the first public narrow-gauge railway in North America.

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Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway

The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway was chartered in 1868 to build a narrow-gauge railway from Toronto to Grey and Bruce Counties in Ontario, Canada.

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Track gauge

In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.

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Track gauge conversion

Gauge conversion is the change of one railway track gauge to another.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Trams in Panama

Trams in Panama began with an electric tramway in Panama City in 1893 and remained in service, with interruptions, until 1941.

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TransNamib

TransNamib is the railway State-owned enterprise of Namibia.

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Transnet

Transnet SOC Ltd is a large South African rail, port and pipeline company, headquartered in the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg.

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Transport in Barbados

Barbados is an up-and-coming tourist country that provides reliable and safe transportation for natives and visitors alike.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Wagonway

Wagonways (or Waggonways) consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Zig Zag Railway

The Zig Zag Railway is an Australian heritage railway, situated near the town of Lithgow in the state of New South Wales.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_ft_6_in_gauge_railways

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