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  2. Rail transport in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Privately owned multi-system locomotive designed for freight and passenger trains near the Danish-German border. Rail transport in Europe has diverse technological standards, operating concepts, and infrastructures. Common features are the widespread use of standard-gauge rail, high operational safety and a high share of electrification.

  3. Trans-European Transport Network - Wikipedia

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    Map of the TEN-T Comprehensive and Core Networks. The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is a planned network of roads, railways, airports and water infrastructure in the European Union. The TEN-T network is part of a wider system of Trans-European Networks (TENs), including a telecommunications network (eTEN) and a proposed energy ...

  4. High-speed rail in Europe - Wikipedia

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    An ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, Italy, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe. [6] The earliest high-speed rail line built in Europe was the Italian "Direttissima", the Florence–Rome high-speed railway 254 km (158 mi) in 1977. The top speed on the line was 250 km/h (160 mph), giving an end ...

  5. List of countries by rail transport network size - Wikipedia

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    Countries with active network. ^ The figure is mentioned as the total network length in 1990,[ 23 ] but the total network length may have grown after 1990. ^ This figure is a combination of the British (15,846 km)[ 34 ] and Northern Irish (333 km)[ 35 ] networks. ^ This is the figure for Britain as Northern Ireland does not have any electrified ...

  6. Transcontinental railroad - Wikipedia

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    Transcontinental railroad. A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, [1] that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad or over those owned or controlled by multiple railway companies ...

  7. List of high-speed railway lines - Wikipedia

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    This article provides a list of operational and under construction (or approved) high-speed rail networks, listed by country or region. While the International Union of Railways defines high-speed rail as public transport by rail at speeds of at least 200 km/h (124 mph) for upgraded tracks and 250 km/h (155 mph) or faster for new tracks, this article lists all the systems and lines that ...

  8. Rail transport - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport. Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. [1] Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, [2 ...

  9. Pan-European corridors - Wikipedia

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    The ten Pan-European transport corridors were defined at the second Pan-European transport Conference in Crete, March 1994, as routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the next ten to fifteen years. Additions were made at the third conference in Helsinki in 1997. Therefore, these corridors are sometimes referred ...

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