| Indian Railways |
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| Transportation in India depends heavily on railroads. The railway system, owned and operated by the government, is the largest in the world under single management. Each year, more than 4 billion passenger journeys are made by rail. Railroads also carry about 60 percent of India's freight traffic (421 million tonnes) every year. |
| Indian Railways highlights (1998 est.) route total: 62,915 k??km 1.676-m gauge narrow gauge: 18,501 km 1.000-m gauge; 3,794 km 0.762-m/ 0.610-m gauge track total: 1,07,000 Track Kilometers Stations: 7,068 Fleet of trains: 7000 for passengers and 4000 for goods India cities are connected by express trains, and there are local trains between most parts of the country. Rail-link buses serve areas not on the network. An underground railway began operating in Calcutta in 1995. The world's longest rail line is in Russia. It extends about 5,600 miles (9,010 kilometers) and connects Moscow and Vladivostok. Laid end-to-end, the tracks of the world's main railroad routes would stretch about 750,000 miles (1,207,000 kilometers)--about 3.25 times the distance from the earth to the moon. |
| World Railways statistics, 1994 Sources: CIA; International Union of Railways; Statistics Canada; UN. |
| Country United States Russia Canada China India Germany |
| Length of Track (km) 240,000 154,000 78,150 65,780 62,915 43,460 |
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| Country Japan China India Russia Ukraine |
| No. of Passage-km 396,336,000,000 363,276,000,000 316,728,000,000 227,100,000,000 70,884,000,000 |
| Country United States China Russia Canada India |
| No. of ton-Km 1,759,464,000,000 1,242,600,000,000 1,195,164,000,000 279,510,000,000 252,588,000,000 |
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