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The China Railway G403/4, G405/6 and D939/40 Beijing–Kunming high-speed train (2,653 km, 10 hours 43 minutes to 14 hours 54 minutes), which began service on January 1, 2017, is the longest high-speed rail service in the world. The previous record-holder was the likewise Chinese Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway at 2,230 km.
The Trans-Siberian Railway, [a] historically known as the Great Siberian Route [b] and often shortened to Transsib, [c] is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. [1] Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers (5,772 miles), it is the longest railway line in the world. [2]
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
The theory of the world’s “longest rail ride” originated when the Laos-China railway opened for business, linking Kunming and Vientiane – a missing link in the rails between Europe and ...
[9] [10] With a route length of 57.09 km (35.5 mi), [5] it is the world's longest railway and deepest traffic tunnel [11] [12] [13] [note 1] and the first flat, low-level route through the Alps. [14] Located at the heart of the Gotthard axis, it is the third tunnel to connect the cantons of Uri and Ticino , after the Gotthard Tunnel and the ...
The world's longest passenger train measuring 1.2 miles in length completed a spectacular, world record-setting journey in the Swiss Alps.
The railway includes the world's longest section of completely straight track. ... the route includes the longest length of straight track in the world – 478.193 ...
A BNSF train of loaded well cars (or double-stack cars) at Caliente, California, United States. A Canadian National Railway double-stack container train.. 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) – United States – a June 2024 third-party study over 10 days in Arizona found that Union Pacific routinely runs intermodal trains of more than 5,500 m (18,000 ft) in length, of which the longest was a 6,100-metre ...