Railway in Latin America Countries
Currently, there are no railways in Curaçao. In the past, horse drawn trams ran in the capital – Willemstad, and for some time there was also an industrial railway line. The first horse drawn tram line was put into operation in 1887. The 2-kilometer-long line was built in the shape of the letter U and …
Colombia has a well-developed railway network with a total length of 3,304 kilometres. Almost all lines are used exclusively for freight transport. Train travel in Colombia is limited to a weekend tourist train in Bogota and metropolitan railway in Medellin. Colombia has no operational railway links with adjacent countries. Railway link with Venezuela was disrupted, …
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There are no railways in Chiloe Island, but in the past there was a narrow gauge railway. At the end of the 19th century in Chiloe Island was the only land route the two main cities of the island Ancud and Castro, opened at the end of the 18th century. In 1899 the railway in …
There are no passenger trains in Guyana. Only one railway in Guyana in operation is a short line of sugar cane railway at the Blairmont Central Factory in Rosignol, where the railway from Georgetown ended in the past. The line is approximately 800 meters long and is used to transport sugar cane from the river port, …
Currently, there are no passenger trains in French Guiana, but railways in French Guiana operates within the Guiana Space Center and are used to transport space shuttles. There are two main standard gauge railway lines intended to carry a large rail platform straddling the pair of lines and hauled by a heavy duty road vehicle. …
Currently, there are no trains in the Falkland Islands, but there were narrow gauge railways. The most famous railway line in the Falkland Islands was intended to carry coal from the port to the the generating station at the radio transmitter. The narrow gauge railway was built between Camber Depot at Navy Point, the site …
Railways in the Dominican Republic in the article are divided into metro railway line in Santo Domingo (suburban rail) and the sugar cane railways. The history of the sugar cane railways in the Dominican Republic dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, some of them are active. There were plans to build a …
There are no railways in Trinidad and Tobago. There has never been railways in Tobago, but the railway in Trinidad has a long and interesting history – tram systems and Trinidad Government Railways. In 2008, a plan to build a metropolitan railway called “TriniTrain” was announced, but due to costs, the project was abandoned in …
Train travel in Puerto Rico is limited to a metro system serving San Juan and neighbouring communities inaugurated in 2004. Almost all railways in Puerto Rico were closed in 1950s. In addition to the railways described in the article, there was also the Parque del Tren de Bayamón park railway. 1000 mm narrow gauge railway …
There are no railways in Belize and there are no plans to rebuild dismantled railways or to build a new ones. There were railway lines and trains in Belize in the past – mainly narrow gauge railways used for logging industry. These lines were built along the rivers and were intended to transport timber, sugar …