Country
Railways (km)
Afghanistan
24.6 km
broad gauge: 9.6 km 1.524-m gauge from Gushgy
(Turkmenistan) to Towraghondi; 15 km 1.524-m gauge from
Termiz (Uzbekistan) to Kheyrabad transshipment point on
south bank of Amu Darya (2001)
Albania
total: 447 km
standard gauge: 447 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Algeria
total: 3,973 km
standard gauge: 2,888 km 1.435-m gauge (283 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,085 km 1.055-m gauge (2002)
American Samoa
0 km
Andorra
0 km
Angola
total: 2,761 km
narrow gauge: 2,638 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m
gauge (2002)
Anguilla
0 km
Antigua and
Barbuda
total: 77 km
narrow gauge: 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km 0.610-m gauge
(used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane) (2001 est.)
Argentina
total: 34,463 km (168 km electrified)
broad gauge: 20,736 km 1.676-m gauge (142 km electrified)
standard gauge: 3,115 km 1.435-m gauge (26 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 10,375 km 1.000-m gauge; 237 km 0.750-m
gauge (2002)
Armenia
total: 852 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines
broad gauge: 852 km 1.520-m gauge (779 km electrified)
(2002)
Aruba
0 km
Australia
total: 41,588 km (4,612 km electrified)
broad gauge: 2,193 km 1.600-m gauge
standard gauge: 23,648 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 15,456 km 1.067-m gauge
dual gauge: 291 km dual gauge (2002)
Austria
total: 6,024 km (3,641 km electrified)
standard gauge: 5,566 km 1.435-m gauge (3,524 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 34 km 1.000-m gauge (28 km electrified); 424
km 0.760-m gauge (89 km electrified) (2002)
Azerbaijan
total: 2,122 km
broad gauge: 2,122 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified)
(2002)
Bahamas, The
0 km
Bahrain
0 km
Bangladesh
total: 2,706 km
broad gauge: 884 km 1.676-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Barbados
0 km
Belarus
total: 5,523 km
broad gauge: 5,523 km 1.520-m gauge (875 km electrified)
(2002)
Belgium
total: 3,471 km
standard gauge: 3,471 km 1.435-m gauge (2,631 km
electrified) (2002)
Belize
0 km
Benin
total: 578 km
narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Bermuda
0 km
Bhutan
0 km
Bolivia
total: 3,519 km
narrow gauge: 3,519 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
total: 1,021 km (795 km electrified)
standard gauge: 1,021 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Botswana
total: 888 km
narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Brazil
total: 31,543 km (1,981 km electrified)
broad gauge: 4,961 km 1.600-m gauge (692 km electrified)
standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge (630 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 25,992 km 1.000-m gauge (581 km electrified)
dual gauge: 396 km 1.000-m and 1.600-m gauges (three rails)
(78 km electrified) (2002)
British Virgin
Islands
0 km
Brunei
total: 13 km (private line)
narrow gauge: 13 km 0.610-m gauge (2001 est.)
Bulgaria
total: 4,294 km
standard gauge: 4,049 km 1.435-m gauge (2,710 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge (2002)
Burkina Faso
total: 622 km
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge
note:: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote
D'Ivoire (2002)
Burma
total: 3,955 km
narrow gauge: 3,955 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Burundi
0 km
Cambodia
total: 602 km
narrow gauge: 602 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Cameroon
1,008 km
narrow gauge: 1,008 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Canada
total: 64,994 km
standard gauge: 64,994 km 1.435-m gauge (129 km
electrified) (2002)
Cape Verde
0 km
Cayman Islands
0 km
Central African
Republic
0 km
Chad
0 km
Chile
total: 6,585 km
broad gauge: 2,831 km 1.676-m gauge (1,317 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 3,754 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
China
total: 71,600 km
standard gauge: 68,000 km 1.435-m gauge (14,600 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 3,600 km 1.000-m and 0.750-m gauge local
industrial lines (2002)
Christmas Island
24 km to serve phosphate mines
Cocos (Keeling)
Islands
0 km
Colombia
total: 3,304 km
standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 3,154 km 0.914-m gauge (2002)
Comoros
0 km
Congo,
Democratic
Republic of the
total: 4,772 km
narrow gauge: 3,621 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified);
125 km 1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge (2002)
Congo, Republic
of the
total: 894 km
narrow gauge: 894 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Cook Islands
0 km
Costa Rica
total: 950 km
narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified)
(2002)
Cote d'Ivoire
total: 660 km
narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge
note: an additional 622 km of this railroad extends into
Burkina Faso (2002)
Croatia
total: 2,296 km
standard gauge: 2,296 km 1.435-m gauge (983 km electrified)
(2002)
Cuba
total: 3,442 km
standard gauge: 3,442 km 1.435-m gauge (142 km electrified)
note: an additional 7,742 km of track is used by sugar
plantations; about 65% of this track is standard gauge; the
rest is narrow gauge (2002)
Cyprus
0 km
Czech Republic
total: 9,462 km
standard gauge: 9,363 km 1.435-m gauge (1,745 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 99 km 0.760-m gauge (2002)
Denmark
total: 3,164 km
standard gauge: 2,324 km 1.435-m gauge (595 km electrified)
note:: total includes 840 km of suburban track (2002)
Djibouti
total: 100 km (Djibouti segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti
railway)
narrow gauge: 100 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia
(2002)
Dominica
0 km
Dominican
Republic
total: 1,503 km
standard gauge: 375 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 142 km 0.762-m gauge
note:: 986 km also operated by sugar companies in 1.076-m,
0.889-m, and 0.762-m gauges (2002)
East Timor
0 km
Ecuador
total: 966 km
narrow gauge: 966 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Egypt
total: 5,105 km
standard gauge: 5,105 km 1.435-m gauge (42 km electrified)
(2002)
El Salvador
total: 283 km
narrow gauge: 283 km 0.914-m gauge
note: length of operational route reduced from 562 km to 283
km by disuse and lack of maintenance (2002)
Equatorial Guinea 0 km
Eritrea
total: 306 km
narrow gauge: 306 km 0.950-m gauge
note: railway is being rebuilt (2002)
Estonia
total: 968 km
broad gauge: 968 km 1.520-m/1.524-m gauge (132 km
electrified)
note:: gauge being increased from 1.520-m to 1.524-m to
reduce wear on wheels and rail as lines are modernized (2002)
Ethiopia
total: 681 km (Ethiopian segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti
railroad)
narrow gauge: 681 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia
(2002)
Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
0 km
Faroe Islands
0 km
Fiji
total: 597 km
narrow gauge: 597 km 0.600-m gauge
note: belongs to the government-owned Fiji Sugar
Corporation; used to haul sugarcane during harvest season
(May to September) (2002)
Finland
total: 5,850 km
broad gauge: 5,850 km 1.524-m gauge (2,400 km electrified)
(2002)
France
total: 32,682 km
standard gauge: 32,515 km 1.435-m gauge (14,104 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
French Guiana
0 km
French Polynesia
0 km
Gabon
total: 814 km
standard gauge: 814 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Gambia, The
0 km
Gaza Strip
total: NA km; note - one line, abandoned and in disrepair, little
trackage remains (2001 est.)
Georgia
total: 1,612 km
broad gauge: 1,575 km 1.520-m gauge
narrow gauge: 37 km 0.912-m gauge (2002)
Germany
total: 45,514 km (21,000 km electrified)
standard gauge: 45,276 km 1.435-m gauge (20,084 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 214 km 1.000-m gauge (16 km electrified); 24
km 0.750-m gauge (2002)
Ghana
total: 953 km
narrow gauge: 953 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Greece
total: 2,571 km (764 km electrified)
standard gauge: 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 961 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge
dual gauge: 23 km combined 1.435-m and 1.000-m gauges
(three rail system) (2002)
Greenland
0 km
Grenada
0 km
Guadeloupe
NA km; privately owned, narrow-gauge plantation lines
Guam
0 km
Guatemala
total: 886 km
narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2002)
Guernsey
5 km
Guinea
total: 1,115 km
standard gauge: 311 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 804 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Guinea-Bissau
0 km
Guyana
total: 187 km
standard gauge: 139 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 48 km 0.914-m gauge
note: all dedicated to ore transport (2001 est.)
Haiti
total: 40 km
narrow gauge: 40 km 0.760-m gauge; single-track
note: privately owned industrial line; closed in early 1990s
(2001 est.)
Holy See (Vatican
City)
total: 0.86 km
standard gauge: 0.86 km 1.435-m gauge
note: a spur of the Italian Railways system, serving Rome's
Saint Peter's station (2001 est.)
Honduras
total: 699 km
narrow gauge: 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m
gauge (2002)
Hong Kong
total: 34 km
standard gauge: 34 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified and doubletracked)
note: connects to China railway system at Hong Kong-China
border (2001)
Hungary
total: 7,875 km
broad gauge: 36 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,620 km 1.435-m gauge (2,628 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 219 km 0.760-m gauge
note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage a cross-border,
standard-gauge railway connecting Gyor, Sopron, and Ebenfurt
(Gysev railroad) with a route length of 101 km in Hungary and
65 km in Austria; 156 km of this line is electrified (2002)
Iceland
0 km
India
total: 63,518 km (15,009 km electrified)
broad gauge: 45,142 km 1.676-m gauge
narrow gauge: 15,013 km 1.000-m gauge; 3,363 km 0.762-m
gauge and 0.610-m gauge (2002)
Indonesia
total: 6,458 km
narrow gauge: 5,961 km 1.067-m gauge (125 km electrified);
497 km 0.750-m gauge (2002)
Iran
total: 7,201 km
broad gauge: 94 km 1.676-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,107 km 1.435-m gauge (146 km electrified)
(2002)
Iraq
1,963 km
standard gauge: 1,963 km 1.435-m gauge (2003)
Ireland
total: 3,312 km
broad gauge: 1,947 km 1.600-m gauge (46 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish
Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting
plants) (2002)
Israel
total: 640 km
standard gauge: 640 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Italy
total: 19,493 km
standard gauge: 18,090 km 1.435-m gauge (11,375 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 88 km 1.000-m gauge (88 km electrified);
1,315 km 0.950-m gauge (189 km electrified) (2002)
Jamaica
total: 272 km
standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge; note - 207 km,
belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation, were in common
carrier service but are no longer operational; the remaining
track is privately owned and used to transport bauxite (2002)
Japan
total: 23,168 km (15,995 km electrified)
standard gauge: 3,204 km 1.435-m gauge (3,204 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 77 km 1.372-m gauge (77 km electrified);
19,855 km 1.067-m gauge (12,683 km electrified); 31 km
0.762-m gauge (31 km electrified) (2002)
Jersey
0 km
Jordan
total: 505 km
narrow gauge: 505 km 1.050-m gauge (2002)
Juan de Nova
Island
total: NA km; short line going to a jetty
Kazakhstan
total: 13,601 km
broad gauge: 13,601 km 1.520-m gauge (3,661 km electrified)
(2002)
Kenya
total: 2,778 km
narrow gauge: 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Kiribati
0 km
Korea, North
total: 5,214 km
standard gauge: 4,549 km 1.435-m gauge (3,500 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 665 km 0.762-m gauge (2002)
Korea, South
total: 3,125 km
standard gauge: 3,125 km 1.435-m gauge (661 km electrified)
(2002)
Kuwait
0 km
Kyrgyzstan
total: 420 km
broad gauge: 420 km 1.520-m gauge (2002)
Laos
0 km
Latvia
total: 2,347 km
broad gauge: 2,314 km 1.520-m gauge (270 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 33 km 0.750-m gauge (2002)
Lebanon
total: 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435-m
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050-m
note: rail system is unusable because of damage in civil war
(2002)
Lesotho
total: 2.6 km; note - owned by, operated by, and included in
the statistics of South Africa
narrow gauge: 2.6 km 1.067-m gauge (1995)
Liberia
total: 490 km
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge
note: none of the railways are in operation (2002)
Libya
0 km
Liechtenstein
total: 18.5 km
standard gauge: 18.5 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified)
note: owned, operated, and included in statistics of Austrian
Federal Railways (2002)
Lithuania
total: 1,998 km
broad gauge: 1,807 km 1.524-m gauge (122 km electrified)
standard gauge: 22 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 169 km 0.750-m gauge (all service suspended)
(2002)
Luxembourg
total: 274 km
standard gauge: 274 km 1.435-m gauge (242 km electrified)
(2002)
Macau
0 km
Macedonia, The
Former Yugoslav
Republic of
total: 699 km
standard gauge: 699 km 1.435-m gauge (233 km electrified)
(2002)
Madagascar
total: 732 km
narrow gauge: 732 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Malawi
total: 797 km
narrow gauge: 797 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Malaysia
total: 2,418 km
standard gauge: 57 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 2,361 km 1.000-m gauge (150 km electrified)
(2002)
Maldives
0 km
Mali
total: 729 km
narrow gauge: 729 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Malta
0 km
Man, Isle of
total: 60 km (35 km electrified) (2002)
Marshall Islands
0 km
Martinique
0 km
Mauritania
717 km
standard gauge: 717 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Mauritius
0 km
Mayotte
0 km
Mexico
total: 19,510 km
standard gauge: 19,510 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Micronesia,
0 km
Federated States
of
Moldova
total: 1,300 km
broad gauge: 1,300 km 1.520-m gauge (2002)
Monaco
total: 1.7 km
standard gauge: 1.7 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Mongolia
1,815 km
broad gauge: 1,815 km 1.524-m gauge (2002)
Montserrat
0 km
Morocco
total: 1,907 km
standard gauge: 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km
electrified) (2002)
Mozambique
total: 3,123 km
narrow gauge: 2,983 km 1.067-m gauge; 140 km 0.762-m
gauge (2002)
Namibia
total: 2,382 km
narrow gauge: 2,382 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Nauru
total: 5 km
note: gauge unknown; used to haul phosphates from the
center of the island to processing facilities on the southwest
coast (2001)
Nepal
total: 59 km
narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2002)
Netherlands
total: 2,808 km
standard gauge: 2,808 km 1.435-m gauge (2,061 km
electrified) (2002)
Netherlands
Antilles
0 km
New Caledonia
0 km
New Zealand
total: 3,898 km
narrow gauge: 3,898 km 1.067-m gauge (506 km electrified)
(2002)
Nicaragua
total: 6 km
narrow gauge: 6 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Niger
0 km
Nigeria
total: 3,557 km
narrow gauge: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge
standard gauge: 52 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Niue
0 km
Norfolk Island
0 km
Northern Mariana
Islands
0 km
Norway
total: 4,178 km
standard gauge: 4,178 km 1.435-m gauge (2,518 km
electrified) (2002)
Oman
0 km
Pakistan
total: 8,163 km
broad gauge: 7,718 km 1.676-m gauge (293 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 445 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Palau
0 km
Panama
total: 355 km
broad gauge: 76 km 1.524-m gauge
narrow gauge: 279 km 0.914-m gauge (2002)
Papua New
Guinea
0 km
Paraguay
total: 441 km
standard gauge: 441 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Peru
total: 1,829 km
standard gauge: 1,515 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 314 km 0.914-m gauge (2002)
Philippines
total: 897 km
narrow gauge: 897 km 1.067-m gauge (405 km are not in
operation) (2002)
Pitcairn Islands
0 km
Poland
total: 23,420 km
broad gauge: 646 km 1.524-m gauge
standard gauge: 21,639 km 1.435-m gauge (11,626 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,135 km various gauges including 1.000-m,
0.785-m, 0.750-m, and 0.600-m (2002)
Portugal
total: 2,850 km
broad gauge: 2,576 km 1.668-m gauge (623 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 274 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Puerto Rico
total: 96 km
narrow gauge: 96 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Qatar
0 km
Reunion
0 km
Romania
total: 11,385 km (3,888 km electrified)
standard gauge: 10,898 km 1.435-m gauge
broad gage: 60 km 1.524-m gauge
narrow gauge: 427 km 0.760-m gauge (2002)
Russia
total: 87,157 km
broad gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
note:: an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrrier lines
serve industries (2002)
Rwanda
0 km
Saint Helena
0 km
Saint Kitts and
Nevis
total: 50 km
narrow gauge: 50 km 0.762-m gauge on Saint Kitts to serve
sugarcane plantations during harvest season (2002)
Saint Lucia
0 km
Saint Pierre and
Miquelon
0 km
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
0 km
Samoa
0 km
San Marino
0 km; note - there is a 1.5-km cable railway connecting the
city of San Marino to Borgo Maggiore
Sao Tome and
Principe
0 km
Saudi Arabia
total: 1,392 km
standard gauge: 1,392 km 1.435-m gauge (with branch lines
and sidings) (2002)
Senegal
total: 906 km
narrow gauge: 906 km 1.000-meter gauge (2002)
Serbia and
Montenegro
total: 4,059 km
standard gauge: 4,059 km 1.435-m gauge (1,364 km
electrified) (2002)
Seychelles
0 km
Sierra Leone
total: 84 km
narrow gauge: 84 km 1.067-m gauge
note: Sierra Leone has no common carrier railroads; the
existing railroad is private and used on a limited basis while
the mine at Marampa is closed (2001)
Singapore
total: 38.6 km
narrow gauge: 38.6 km 1.000-m gauge
note: there is also an 83 km mass transit system with 48
stations
Slovakia
total: 3,668 km
broad gauge: 106 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 3,511 km 1.435-m gauge (1,567 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 51 km (46 km 1,000-m gauge; 5 km 0.750-m
gauge) (2002)
Slovenia
total: 1,201 km
standard gauge: 1,201 km 1.435-m gauge (499 km electrified)
(2002)
Solomon Islands
0 km
Somalia
0 km
South Africa
total: 22,298 km
narrow gauge: 21,984 km 1.065-m gauge (10,436 km
electrified); 314 km 0.610-m gauge
note: includes a 2,228 km commuter rail system (2002)
Spain
total: 14,189 km
broad gauge: 11,804 km 1.668-m gauge (6,409 km electrified)
standard gauge: 455 km 1.435-m gauge (455 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,902 km 1.000-m gauge (781 km electrified);
28 km 0.914-m gauge (28 km electrified) (2002)
Sri Lanka
total: 1,508 km
broad gauge: 1,449 km 1.676-m gauge
narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2002)
Sudan
total: 5,978 km
narrow gauge: 4,578 km 1.067-m gauge; 1,400 km 0.600-m
gauge plantation line (2002)
Suriname
total: 166 km (single-track)
standard gauge: 80 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 86 km 1.000-m gauge
note: Suriname railroads are not in operation (2001)
Svalbard
0 km
Swaziland
total: 301 km
narrow gauge: 301 km 1.067-m gauge (2002)
Sweden
total: 11,481 km
standard gauge: 11,481 km 1.435-m gauge (7,527 km
electrified) (2002)
Switzerland
total: 4,511 km
standard gauge: 3,483 km 1.435-m gauge (3,472 km
electrified)
narrow gauge: 982 km 1.000-m gauge (975 km electrified); 46
km 0.800-m gauge (46 km electrified) (2002)
Syria
total: 2,743 km
standard gauge: 2,425 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 318 km 1.050-m gauge (2002)
Taiwan
total: 1,108 km
narrow gauge: 1,108 km 1.067-m gauge (519 km electrified)
note: there also are 1,255 km of 1.067-m gauge routes
belonging to the Taiwan Sugar Corporation and to the Taiwan
Forestry Bureau used to haul products and limited numbers of
passengers (2002)
Tajikistan
total: 482 km
broad gauge: 482 km 1.520-m gauge (2002)
Tanzania
total: 3,690 km
narrow gauge: 2,721 km 1.000-m gauge; 969 km 1.067-m
gauge (2002)
Thailand
total: 4,071 km
narrow gauge: 4,071 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Togo
total: 525 km
narrow gauge: 525 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Tokelau
0 km
Tonga
0 km
Trinidad and
minimal agricultural railroad system near San Fernando;
Tobago
common carrier railway service was discontinued in 1968
(2001)
Tunisia
total: 2,152 km
standard gauge: 468 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,674 km 1.000-m gauge (65 km electrified)
dual gauge: 10 km 1.435-m and 1.000-m gauges (three rails)
(2002)
Turkey
total: 8,607 km
standard gauge: 8,607 km 1.435-m gauge (2,131 km
electrified) (2002)
Turkmenistan
total: 2,440 km
broad gauge: 2,440 km 1.520-m gauge (2002)
Turks and Caicos
Islands
0 km
Tuvalu
0 km
Uganda
total: 1,241 km
narrow gauge: 1,241 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)
Ukraine
total: 22,473 km
broad gauge: 22,473 km 1.524-m gauge (9,250 km electrified)
(2002)
United Arab
Emirates
0 km
United Kingdom
total: 16,893 km
standard gauge: 16,536 km 1.435-m gauge (4,928 km
electrified)
broad gauge: 357 km 1.600-m gauge (in Northern Ireland)
(2002)
United States
total: 194,731 km mainline routes
standard gauge: 194,731 km 1.435-m gauge
note: represents the aggregate length of roadway of all linehaul railroads including an estimate for class II and III
railroads; excludes 135,185 km of yard tracks, sidings, and
parallel lines (2002)
Uruguay
total: 2,073 km
standard gauge: 2,073 km 1.435-m gauge
note: 461 km have been taken out of service and 460 km are
in partial use (2002)
Uzbekistan
total: 3,950 km
broad gauge: 3,950 km 1.520-m gauge (620 km electrified)
(2002)
Vanuatu
0 km
Venezuela
total: 682 km
standard gauge: 682 km 1.435-m gauge (2002)
Vietnam
total: 3,142 km
standard gauge: 209 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 2,625 km 1.000-m gauge
dual gauge: 308 km three-rail track combining 1.435-m and
1.000-m gauges (2002)
Virgin Islands
0 km
Wallis and Futuna 0 km
West Bank
0 km
Western Sahara
0 km
World
total: 1,122,650 km includes about 190,000 to 195,000 km of
electrified routes of which 147,760 km are in Europe, 24,509
km in the Far East, 11,050 km in Africa, 4,223 km in South
America, and 4,160 km in North America; note - fastest speed
in daily service is 300 km/hr attained by France's Societe
Nationale des Chemins-de-Fer Francais (SNCF) Le Train a
Grande Vitesse (TGV) - Atlantique line
broad gauge: 251,153 km
standard gauge: 710,754 km
narrow gauge: 239,430 km
Yemen
0 km
Zambia
total: 2,173 km
narrow gauge: 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA) (2002)
Zimbabwe
total: 3,077 km
narrow gauge: 3,077 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified)
note: includes the 318 km Bulawayo-Beitbridge Railway
Company line (2002)