• events related to rail transport that occurred in 1990. January 4 – Sukkur rail disaster in Pakistan kills 307 people January 15 – Via Rail discontinues Super...
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    Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel...
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    Rail transport in Israel includes heavy rail (inter-city, commuter, and freight rail) as well as light rail. Excluding light rail, the network consists...
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  • This list of countries by rail transport network size based on length of rail lines. For the purposes of this page, railway has been defined as a fixed...
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    Rail transport in Australia is a component of the Australian transport system. It is to a large extent state-based, as each state largely has its own operations...
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    Rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The...
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    9-Euro-Ticket Rail transport by country Rail transport in Europe Transport in Germany History of rail transport in Germany German locomotive classification In reference...
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    The history of rail transport began before the beginning of the common era. It can be divided into several discrete periods defined by the principal means...
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    urban and industrial centres. Train transport was the main form of transport until the collapse of Communism in 1990. After 1991, the railway network slowly...
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    Rail transport in Singapore mainly consists of a passenger urban rail transit system spanning the entire city-state: a rapid transit system collectively...
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    The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and...
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    Transport in the United Kingdom is highly facilitated by road, rail, air and water networks. Transport is a devolved matter with each of the countries...
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    rolling stock "Passenger transport by rail" (in Norwegian). Ssb.no. 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-28. "Passenger transport by rail" (in Norwegian). Ssb.no....
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    Rail transport in Lithuania consists of freight shipments and passenger services. The construction of the first railway line in Lithuania began in 1859...
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    History of rail transport in Russia. Russian Railways Official Site (in English and Russian) Steam on Sakhalin Island [2] Russian Railway in 1935 "A site...
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    Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in China. As of 2024, the country had more than 159,000 km (98,798 mi)[a] of railways...
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  • National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT) is a British trade union covering the transport sector. Its current...
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    Rail transport in Slovakia began on September 21, 1840, with the opening of the first horse-powered line from Bratislava to Svätý Jur (at that time in...
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    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...
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  • This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1989. January 1 - Three railways in Norway are closed: Kragerøbanen, Numedalsbanen...
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  • rail accident lists. Before 1880 1880–1889 1890–1899 1900–1909 1910–1919 1920–1929 1930–1939 1940–1949 1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999...
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    The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge for a main line, and, in 2013, was claimed...
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    express railway. Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting...
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    Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of 4,375.5 km (2,718.8 mi) of track linking...
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    December 1947. The growth in road transport during the 1920s and 1930s greatly reduced revenue for the rail companies. Rail companies accused the government...
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    Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train...
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    most of the country's production and consumption centers. Rail dominated commercial transport in the early years of independent Sudan but competition from...
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    Rail transport in Lebanon began in the 1890s as French projects under the Ottoman Empire but largely ceased in the 1970s owing to the country's civil war...
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    of rail transport Rail transport in Great Britain Rail freight in Great Britain List of early British railway companies History of rail transport in Ireland...
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    Italiane History of rail transport in Italy Railway stations in Italy Transport in Italy Trenitalia Treno Alta Velocità Rail transport in Europe "Railway...
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