The national passenger and freight operator is called Bulgarian State Railways, but there are also a number of private operators including Bulgarian Railway Company and DB Schenker Rail Bulgaria.

They are jointly operated by Hong Kong's MTR Corporation and the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China.

Ireland's railways are in State ownership, with Iarnród Éireann ( Irish Rail ) operating services in the Republic and NI Railways operating services in Northern Ireland.

Railways are not commonly used for passenger transport in Jordan, the only passenger railway is that connecting Amman to Damascus in Syria.

and can be prosecuted for fare evasion under the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, under which they are subject to a fine of up to £ 1, 000 or three months ' imprisonment.

Railways in Namibia are operated by TransNamib.

Railways in Nigeria are operated by the Nigerian Railway Corporation.

No voltage issues ( None of the tracks of the Moldovan Railways are electrified ).

Railways are a safe land transport system when compared to other forms of transport.

Railways linking Mozambique are under repair.

Nearly all of the Swiss standard gauge railways are part of the nationwide SBB-CFF-FFS ( Swiss Federal Railways ) system, which also includes affiliated standard gauge lines such as BLS ( Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon ).

In addition numerous narrow gauge railways are operated, the largest company of its kind being the Rhaetian Railways.

The Swiss Federal Railways run some 5000 passenger trains covering approximately 274, 000 kilometres daily, half of which are trains operated by long distance services the other half being regional and suburban services.

The TCDD-Türkiye Devlet Demir Yolları ( Turkish State Railways ) possess 10, 984 km of gauge, of which 2, 336 km are electrified ( 2005 ).

** The most important state owned companies are: Republica AFAP ( Pension Fund ), AFE ( Railways ), ANCAP ( Energy ), ANCO ( Mail ), Administracion Nacional de Puertos ( Ports ), ANTEL ( Telecommunications: Telephony, Mobiles ( ANCEL and Data ANTELDATA )), BHU ( Mortgage Bank ), BROU ( Bank ), BSE ( Insurance ), OSE ( Water & Sewage ), UTE ( Electricity ).

** UK railways are nationalized to form British Railways.

* May 11 – Japanese National Railways ' ferry Shiun Maru sinks after collision with sister ship Uko Maru in thick fog off Takamatsu, Shikoku, in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan ; 166 passengers ( many children ) and two crew are killed.

* January 1 – The Grouping: All major British railway companies are grouped into four larger companies, under terms of the Railways Act 1921.

The main Translink Northern Ireland Railways routes are the major line between Belfast, Antrim, Ballymena, Coleraine and Londonderry, Belfast to Carrickfergus and Larne, the port for Stranraer in Scotland and Coleraine to Portrush.

About 30 % of all inland transport volume is carried by the island's railways, most of which are organized as the Sakhalin Railway ( Сахалинская железная дорога ), which is one of the 17 territorial divisions of the Russian Railways.

Russian Railways department-Gorkovskaya Railroad, which operates some 5, 700 km of rail lines throughout the Middle Volga region ( of which some 1, 200 are in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ), is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod.

* 159. 81-161. 565 MHz Railways 159. 81-160. 2 are railroads in Canada only and is used by trucking companies in the U. S.

All trains that connect to Mysore are operated by Indian Railways.

Among the key people credited with the construction of the first Shinkansen are – Hideo Shima, the Chief Engineer, and Shinji Sogo, the first President of Japanese National Railways ( JNR ) who managed to persuade politicians to back the plan.

Other examples in Asia include Seoul Metropolitan Subway which has suburban lines operated by Korail in South Korea, KTM Komuter in Malaysia, The Philippine National Railways orange line in Metro Manila, Philippines and, KRL Jabotabek in Jakarta Metropolitan area, Indonesia.

The main line of the nation's railway network runs from Alexandria to Aswan and is operated by Egyptian National Railways.

Victorian Railways R class | R class steam locomotive number R707 as operated by the Victorian Railways of Rail transport in Australia | Australia.

For most of its history, New Zealand's rail services were operated by the Railways Department.

The international railway line to Malaysia is an extension of the Malaysian rail network operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu ( Malayan Railways ).

The main system, Sudan Railways, which was operated by the government-owned Sudan Railways Corporation ( SRC ), provided services to most of the country's production and consumption centers.

An extensive rail network used to exist throughout the county and was mainly operated by the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee and the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company ( known as the L. & L. S. R.

Today, the closest railway station to the county is Waterside Station in the City of Derry, which is operated by Northern Ireland Railways ( N. I. R.

The Vietnamese railway network is owned and operated by the state-owned enterprise Vietnam Railways ( VNR ), which operates a number of different subsidiaries involved in construction, communications, training, and other activities connected to railway maintenance.

Besides the main network run by the Russian Railways, until December 2006 the local oil company ( Sakhalinmorneftegaz ) operated a corporate narrow-gauge ( 750 mm ) line extending for from Nogliki further north to Okha ( Узкоколейная железная дорога Оха — Ноглики ).

The, also known as the " Bullet Train ", is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan operated by four Japan Railways Group companies.

The Hammersmith and City Railway ( H & CR ) opened in 1864, a elevated railway, largely built on brick arches and bridges between a station at Hammersmith and Westbourne Park that was operated jointly by the Metropolitan and Great Western Railways.

In Northern Ireland the majority of passenger services have been operated by diesel multiple units since the mid-1950s under the tenure of both the Ulster Transport Authority ( 1948 – 1966 ) and Northern Ireland Railways ( since 1967 ).

The nearest railway station is operated by Northern Ireland Railways and runs from Londonderry railway station via Coleraine to Belfast Central railway station and Belfast Great Victoria Street railway station.

Silverlink ( legal name Silverlink Train Services Limited, company no 3007935 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the North London Railways franchise from March 1997 until November 2007.

Inter-city railway services crossing the Hong Kong-China border ( often known as through trains ) are jointly operated by Hong Kong's MTR Corporation and the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China.

In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.

It was based on a patent of 1883 by James Cleminson, and was once popular on narrow-gauge rolling stock, e. g. on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways.

Recently Croatian Railways introduced a series of modern tilting trains produced by the German branch of Bombardier Transportation.

* Lake Albert: two small ports on the DRC side, Kisenye near Bunia and Mahadi-Port in the north can link to Ugandan ports at Butiabo and Pakwach ( served by Uganda Railways ) on the Albert Nile, which is navigable as far as Nimule in southern Sudan.

* Cane Train: The Sugar-cane Railways of Fiji by Peter Dyer & Peter Hodge ( 1988, New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society Inc, Wellington ) ISBN 0-908573-50-2 a revision of:

* Railways of the Caribbean by David Rollinson ( 2001, Macmillan, Oxford England ) ISBN 0-333-73042-9

Suburban passenger trains, run by the Tasmanian Government Railways, were closed in 1974 and the intrastate passenger service, the Tasman Limited, ceased running in 1978.

Railways in Jamaica, as in many other countries, no longer enjoy the prominent position they once did, having been largely replaced by roadways as the primary means of transport.

The Underground railway system had been developed and was owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) and the Metropolitan Railway.

The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.

Malawi Railways is the national rail network in Malawi, run by a government corporation until privatisation in 1999.

As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.

In 1918, the ICR and NTR were merged by the federal government into the newly formed Canadian National Railways ( CNR ) system.

Hornby Railways produce live steam locomotives in 00, based on designs first arrived at by an amateur modeller.

Aard was taken over by New Zealand Railways Road Services in 1928, The road fleet of New Zealand Railways Corporation was privatised in 1991 with the long-distance business still existing as Intercity, having more recently incorporated Newmans Coachlines.

The national network is owned by state-owned enterprise New Zealand Railways Corporation division KiwiRail Network.