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The Danish Civil Aviation and Railway Authority (Danish: Trafikstyrelsen) is the Danish government agency responsible for regulating, planning and safety relating to public transport in Denmark. The agency also acts as an advisor towards the ministry related to policy and strategic development in transport.
Another major undertaking involving the agency was the Fehmarn Belt fixed link, a immersed tunnel between the Danish island of Lolland with the German island of Fehmarn; it is one part of the wider Priority Project 20 of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), which shall construct a high-speed rail line between Copenhagen and Hamburg. [7]
DSB, an abbreviation of Danske Statsbaner (pronounced [ˈtænskə ˈstɛˀtsˌpɛːnɐ], Danish State Railways), is the largest Danish train operating company, and the largest in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train operation on most of the Danish railways, goods transport and railway maintenance are outside its scope.
Banedanmark is in charge of 2,045 km of railway lines, [4] which do not include the lines controlled by private railways. All Danish railways are 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) (standard gauge), with the exception of a few narrow gauge museum railways; 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge was previously common on branch lines, with 700 mm (2 ft ...
New Zealand Railways Corporation (Rail operator 1981 – 1990, land owner 1990 – 2003, Ontrack 2003–2008, railway land owner 2008 – present) New Zealand Rail Limited (Defunct, privatised 1993, renamed Tranz Rail in 1995)
The largest railway operator in Denmark is Danske Statsbaner (DSB) — Danish State Railways. Arriva operates some routes in Jutland , and several other smaller operators provide local services. The total length of operational track is 3,476 km standard gauge, with 1,756 km electrified.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China, Tanzania and Zambia signed an initial agreement to rehabilitate a decades-old railway aimed at improving the rail-sea transportation in resource-rich East Africa, Chinese ...
In addition to Banedanmark's network, 535 kilometres (332 mi) [3] of railway are under the control of various other companies: [4] Local lines around the capital