The UK has the 18th largest railway network in the world and despite many lines having closed in the 20th century it remains one of the densest rail networks.

The tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, Eurotunnel Shuttle roll-on / roll-off vehicle transport — the largest in the world — and international rail freight trains.

The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

Russian Railways, the state-owned national rail carrier, is one of the world's largest transport companies, enjoying a monopoly over rail transport in Russia.

Other major companies are ČEZ ( biggest company in central and eastern Europe ), Škoda works ( manufacturer of rail vehicles ), Panasonic ( electronics ), Tatra ( Heavy truck manufacturer ), Acelor Mittal ( Metallurgy ), Avast ( Software ), PPF ( largest Central European investment group ) and many others.

The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest port complex on the East Coast of North America and is located at the hub of the most concentrated and affluent consumer market in the world, with immediate access to the most extensive interstate highway and rail networks in the region.

The Central Pacific also established one of its largest rail yards and servicing facilities in West Oakland, which continued to be a major local employer under the Southern Pacific well into the 20th century.

Châtelet – Les Halles, with 5 Métro lines and three RER commuter rail lines, is the world's largest Metro ( Subway ) station.

The Paulins Kill Viaduct, Hainesburg, New Jersey, is 115 feet ( 35 m ) tall and 1, 100 feet ( 335 m ) long, and was heralded as the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world when it was completed in 1910 as part of the Lackawanna Cut-Off rail line project.

With few exceptions, even the largest siege weapons had become mobile by road or rail by the start of World War I, and evolution after that point tended to be towards smaller weapons with increased mobility.

The commuter rail stations in the county have spurred plans for extensive transit-oriented development ( TOD ), including the Station Park development in Farmington, which, when completed, is expected to be the largest shopping center in Utah.

It has two decks and carries both road and rail traffic, which also makes it the largest suspension bridge of this type.

The span is the largest of all bridges in the world carrying rail traffic.

Since then seven further franchises have been added, and rail services now account for the largest portion of the group's activity.

Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the Netherlands ' main east-west and north-south rail lines.

It is the twenty-fifth largest municipality in Illinois, and has easy access to downtown Chicago ( the Chicago Loop ) due to public transportation such as the Chicago ' L ' Blue and Green lines, CTA buses, and Metra commuter rail.

Clinton was the third largest rail switching center in the United States during the Civil War.

The C & O Rail Yard was formerly the largest individually owned rail yard in the world.

His efforts to avoid conflict between Federal Volunteer Troops of the 16th Massachusetts ultimately resulted in the federal occupation of Baltimore thus resulting in Union control of the city ( then 4th largest in the nation ) its strategically located port and its crucial rail centers.

Laurel is home to a Cenex Harvest States oil refinery and Montana Rail Link's Laurel Yard, the largest rail yard between St. Paul, Minnesota and Pasco, Washington.

But the city's largest employer would be the Laconia Car Company, builder of rail, trolley and subway cars.

From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe.

JBK has pushed the concept of " regional " heathenry as opposed to national " internet heathenry ", and has formed an active network of " Midwest Tribes " which if organized would be one of the largest organizations in America, regularly drawing attendance of over 200 to their yearly event ( Lighting Across the Plains ).

With the recent acquisition of Western Wireless, Alltel now takes the claim of the " largest network in America.

It was the third largest AMPS network, by subscribers, in the world at the time of its turndown.

It was the largest Analog network in Sri Lanka.

The largest such network was FidoNet.

( largest metropolitan-wide network in Australia )

Also the ongoing installation of a Fiber-Optic network structure in the National District and the City of Santiago ( second largest in the country ) will force other competitors into upgrading theirs to be able to compete in the markets they now lead.

Mobile networks are diverse and include GSM 850 MHz ( largest ) as well as CDMA ( Bell South's old network before being acquired by Telefónica Spain which rebranded Movistar ), TDMA63.

This was followed quickly by DEC's Unibus to Ethernet adapter, which DEC sold and used internally to build its own corporate network, which reached over 10, 000 nodes by 1986, making it one of the largest computer networks in the world at that time.

The Kemijoki has the largest network of tributaries.

It has the sixth largest highway network in the world, trailing only the United States, China, Canada, Spain and Germany.

The French natural and man-made waterways network is the largest in Europe extending to over of which ( VNF, ), the French navigation authority, manages the navigable sections.

The municipal library, the Brooks Free Library in Harwich Center, is the largest and is a member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing library network.

The Libyan Air Defence Force was part of the Air Force and had the second largest defence network in the region ( second to Egypt ).

Morocco subsequently built the Moroccan Wall, a network of fortified berms around the largest portion of Western Sahara and has since asserted administrative control over that territory.

For example, a 1500-byte packet, the largest allowed by Ethernet at the network layer ( and hence over most of the Internet ), ties up a 14. 4k modem for about one second.

domestic: extensive fixed-line fiber-optic network ; cellular telephone system is one of the largest in Europe with three major network operators utilizing the third generation of the Global System for Mobile Communications ( GSM ).

Nigeria has the largest road network in West Africa and the second largest south of the Sahara, with roughly 108, 000 km of surfaced roads in 1990.

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By the end of 2012, 8 of the 10 largest Polish cities ( Gdańsk, Poznań, Wrocław, Łódź, Warsaw, Kraków, Katowice, Szczecin ) will have a motorway connecting them with the motorway network of Europe.

The health network is the largest employer in the Paris area.