* Morocco: ONCF ( in French-Office National des Chemins de Fer du Maroc, National Office for Railways of Morocco )

Railways connect it with the mineral regions of north-central Alabama.

* In September 2009 Ethiopian Railways Corporation signed a deal with China Railway Engineering Corporation for it to build the new Addis Ababa light railway transit.

Renowned as being the " Father of Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements.

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.

There have been proposals for the establishment of Afghanistan's rail network linking Jalalabad with Pakistan Railways, allowing for increased trade of goods, people and commerce between the two countries.

The London Transport Board was the transport authority from 1 January 1963 to 31 December 1969 It reported directly to the Minister of Transport, ending its direct association with the management of British Railways.

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.

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.

In 1910, it was noted in a discussion with the Minister of Railways that a fruit grower at Port Albert ( near Wellsford, less than 150 km from Auckland ) had found it cheaper to ship his canned fruit to Lyttleton in the South Island by boat, and thence back to Auckland again, rather than pay rail freight rates from nearby Wellsford to Auckland.

Railways in Russia, unlike in the most of the world, use broad gauge of, with the exception of 957 km on Sakhalin island using narrow gauge of.

The first combined map was published in 1908 by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) in conjunction with four other underground railway companies using the " Underground " brand as part of a common advertising initiative.

The Afghan government expects to have the rail line extended to Kabul and then to the eastern border town of Torkham, connecting with Pakistan Railways.

The network is being built in cooperation with China Railways, which is also cooperating with Venezuela to create factories for tracks, railway cars and eventually locomotives.

Paved roads link the major urban and industrial centers, and rail lines managed by the National Railways of Zimbabwe tie it into an extensive central African railroad network with all its neighbours.

* 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.

* Airport Railways of the World Interactive resource of over 300 airports with rail links ( available in 5 European languages ).

After this venture failed, electric trams returned on 5 May 1906, with the opening of the Victorian Railways ' " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda to Brighton, and was followed on 11 October 1906 with the opening of the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to Essendon and Saltwater River ( now Maribyrnong River ).

The VR tram was called a " Street Railway " and was built using the Victorian Railways broad gauge instead of the cable tramway standard gauge of, and connected it with the St Kilda railway station, to allow trams to be moved along the St Kilda railway line for servicing at Jolimont Yard.

Bastia's train station, which belongs to Corsican Railways, is situated in the city center and connects Bastia with Ajaccio and Calvi.

Railways, and steam-powered water supply and sanitation systems, made it possible for viable cities to grow up with populations of several million, with land values orders of magnitude greater than those of land in agricultural use.

A Trans-Korean Main Line, spanning North Korea and connecting to Russian Railways, is planned.

Following the purchase of the MDR by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London in 1902, the planned MDR and B & PCR lines were merged with a third proposed route from the Great Northern and Strand Railway.

Following the purchase of the MDR by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London in 1902, the planned MDR and B & PCR lines were merged with a third proposed route from the Great Northern and Strand Railway.

Indian Railways has planned to convert all Metre Gauge to Indian Gauge between 2012-2017 except Heritage Route like Nilgiri Mountain Railway.

The GER planned a network of lines to serve countryside around London by its Metropolitan Station and Railways Act of 1864.

The Western Region of British Railways planned to reconstruct the bridge but after further damage to the bridge in 1961, it considered the bridge to be damaged beyond economic repair.

The South Side of Kharagpur is a planned area belonging to the Indian Railways which was established by Britishers as residential area.

* Multi-Functional Complex ( MFC ) and 2 Esculators are planned at Rajahmundry railway station. The MFC is first of its kind on the Indian Railways. The complex, which accommodates a restaurant, shopping mall, budget hotel, food court and other premium services, will be inaugurated shortly.

A further part of the scheme was the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways ( General Undertaking ) which planned a route from Porthmadog to Beddgelert, where it would meet the Rhyd Ddu-Beddgelert extension.

Most of his projects were to be planned and built under the terms of the 1896 Light Railways Act.

In 2000 the Strategic Rail Authority announced that it planned to reorganise the North West Regional Railways and Regional Railways North East franchises operated by First North Western and Arriva Trains Northern.

A new Heavy rail station, Jerusalem Binyanei HaUma Railway Station, of the planned high-speed Israel Railways line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, is being constructed in the outdoor square between the Central Bus Station on Jaffa Road and Shazar Boulevard, it will be an underground terminus, scheduled to open in 2015.

:* – Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin meets with Saudi Arabian officials regarding the planned Trans-Saudi Railroad.

On September 2, 2010, Gulf and Ohio Railways announced it was purchasing the Lancaster and Chester ; the deal was planned to be completed by November 2010.

37421, Recently Arrived, In EWS Red and Gold livery with a planned repaint into a British Railways livery.

Croatian Railways ' plan to build their first high-speed railway service is progressing.

The Turkish State Railways started building high-speed rail lines in 2003.

* UIC ( International Union of Railways ) and EC Directive 96 / 58 define high-speed rail as systems of rolling stock and infrastructure which regularly operate at or above on new tracks, or on existing tracks.

National railway company Vietnam Railways has proposed a high-speed rail link between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, capable of running at speeds of.

SNCF supervised the prime contractor responsible for construction of the Taiwan Railways Administration ’ s main high-speed rail line.

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

However, Shinji Sogo, President of Japan National Railways, insisted strongly on the possibility of high-speed rail, and the Shinkansen project was implemented.

* China Railway High-speed, the high-speed rail system operated by China Railways

The term Deltic ( meaning in the form of the Greek letter Delta ) is used to refer to both the Deltic E. 130 opposed-piston high-speed diesel engine and the locomotives produced by English Electric using these engines, including its demonstrator locomotive named DELTIC and the production version for British Railways, which designated these as ( TOPS ) Class 55.

The is a Shinkansen high-speed train type introduced by Japanese National Railways ( JNR ) for the Tōhoku Shinkansen and Jōetsu Shinkansen high-speed rail lines in Japan, and currently operated by East Japan Railway Company ( JR East ).

It is the starting point and terminus for most of Japan's Shinkansen high-speed rail lines, and is served by many local and regional commuter lines of Japan Railways, as well as the Tokyo Metro network.

These tests also provided important data on high-speed electric multiple units ( EMU ), which Japanese National Railways ( JNR ) used for its limited express EMUs, 151 series, and 0 Series Shinkansen introduced in the early 1960s.

Railways using older, lower-capacity direct current systems such as France, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Slovakia and The Netherlands have introduced or are introducing AC instead of DC / DC for their new high-speed lines.