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1906 railway map. The first railway in Ireland opened in 1834. At its peak in 1920, Ireland had 5,600 km (3,480 mi) of railway; now only about half of this remains. A large area around the border has no rail service. Ireland's first light rail line was opened on 30 June 2004.
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 10,912 kilometres (6,780 mi), the 24th largest in the world. [3] Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. . The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned SJ, though today around 70% of all rail traffic consists of subsidised local and regional trains for which the regional public transport ...
The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain.By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles (5,630 km). The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Eesti Raudtee (Estonian Railways, national railway company; privatized 2001, re-nationalized 2006–2007) Elektriraudtee (Electric Railway, Tallinn suburban passenger railway; 1998–2013) Elron (government-owned passenger train operator; 2013–)
SJ is the primary passenger train operator in Sweden.A wholly state-owned company operated for-profit under market conditions, SJ operates various services across Sweden. SJ's operations include high-speed trains, intercity trains, night trains, and regional trains, with some services extending into Denmark, Norway and Germany.
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: Has a 4 km section of pier railway (so is outside the definition for this article) 096 Burundi: Had an internal port railway 108 Cape Verde: Had a harbour railway 132
Map of the East Coast Line, showing Stockholm at the bottom and Sundsvall at the top. (The black line along the coast). The East Coast Line (Swedish: Ostkustbanan) is a 402-kilometre (250 mi) long mainline railway in Sweden, linking the cities of Stockholm, Uppsala, Gävle and Sundsvall, as well as the suburbs north of Stockholm.
English: A map of Swedish railways, showing electrification, high-speed sections, number of tracks, passenger routes, and future upgrades and new lines.