Railway in Latin America Countries
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 …
There are no passenger trains in Jamaica open to the public. However, the island has railway lines and infrastructure enabling the resume of passenger transport. Train travel in Jamaica may be possible in the future. Currently, the island has a big problem with a violent crime and only running passenger train in Jamaica is dedicated …
There are no railways in Haiti. There are no plans to build new railway lines or rebuild closed lines. there have never been any rail connections with the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Haiti is a poor and war-torned country and there is no hope for high-speed lines and railway projects in the nearest future. But there …
Train travel in Chile is possible mainly on suburban and regional routes. Long-distance trains are limitet to Santiago – Chillan train. There are also tourist trains which run occasionally on a few routes. Currently Chile has almost 7,000 km of railway lines, most of them are used for freight transport. In recent years, Chilean railways …
History of the railway in Paraguay began in 1856 when the first leader of the Paraguay – Carlo Lopez hired British engineers to develop a plan to build a railway line from Asunción to Paraguari. Construction works started immediately. On the construction of the railway line were worked workers and soldiers , and the construction …