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List of railway companies
This is a list of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the past.

Note also that in some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities. Historically in some countries, over a period of time, it has gone from Railway Company, then Nationalised to Government Railways, then reverted to Railway Company as operators of the railways.

Particularly in Europe, with privatisations in the 1980s and the separation of the track ownership and management from running the trains, there are now many track-only companies and train-only companies.

Africa

Railway unions:

(formerly Zaire)

Due to civil war, a good portion of the railway system of the Dem Rep of Congo is not presently functioning)

  • Togo Railways (RCFT)
  • Although Togo has railways in place, no trains have run on them for many years.

(There are no railways in Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, and Somalia.)

Asia

  • (Afghanistan has only 24.6 km of railway which are railheads from neighbouring countries). Iran and Turkmenistan plan to help Afghanistan build a rail network that would enable Iran and Turkey to link up with Central Asia.

China

(Taiwan)

Oceania

Europe

  • HSH (Albanian Railways - Hekurudha e Shqipërisë)

  • Belarusian Railway - БЧ, Беларуская Чыгунка, Белорусская железная дорога Belarusian Railway website

  • NMBS/SNCB (Belgian National Railways - Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen / Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges), abbreviated in Dutch/French.
  • Dillen & Le Jeune Cargo NV

  • ŽFBH (Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine)
  • ŽRS (Railways of Republika Srpska - Željeznice Republike Srpske)

  • BDZh (Bulgarian State Railways - Български Държавни Железници, Bâlgarski Dârzhavni Zheleznitsi)

  • HŽ (Croatian Railways - Hrvatske željeznice)

  • DSB (Danish State Railways - Danske Statsbaner)
  • Arriva Danmark
  • GDS/HFHJ (Gribskovbanen / Hillerød-Frederiksværk-Hundested Jernbane)
  • HHJ (Odderbanen (Hads-Ning Herreders Jernbane))
  • HL (Capital City Local Railways - Hovedstadens Lokalbaner)
  • HTJ/OHJ (Høng-Tølløse Jernbane / Odsherreds Jernbane)
  • LJ (Lollandsbanen)
  • LN (Lille Nord)
  • LNJ (Lyngby-Nærum Jernbane)
  • NJ (North Jutland Railways - Nordjyske Jernbaner)
  • ØSJS (Eastern Railway - Østbanen (Østsjællandske Jernbaneselskab))
  • VLTJ (Lemvigbanen (Vemb-Lemvig-Thyborøn Jernbane)). A popular song about the railway by Danish band Tørfisk is simply called VLTJ.
  • VNJ (Western Railway - Vestbanen (Varde-Nørre Nebel Jernbane))

  • VR (VR Ltd -- VR Oy)
  • Teollisuuden Raideliikenne Oy
  • Pääkaupunkiseudun Junakalusto Oy

*Deutsche Bahn (DB AG - German Railways 1992-) Liste deutscher Eisenbahngesellschaften

Passenger railways

Historic state railways

  • OSE (Greek Railways Organization - Οργανισμός Σιδηροδρόμων Ελλάδας, Organismós Sidirodrómon Elládas)
  • SPAP (Peloponnese-Athens-Piraeus Railway)

  • MÁV (Hungarian State Railways - Magyar Államvasutak)
  • MMV (Hungarian Private Railways Limited - Magyar Magánvasút Zrt.)
  • Floyd (Floyd Kft - Hungarian private rail undertaking)
  • GySEV/ROeEE (Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway - Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút / Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurter Eisenbahn - Hungaro-Austrian regional railway company)

  • Apart from a short line used in the construction of Reykjavik harbour in the early 20th century, there have never been any railways in Iceland.

  • LG (Lithuanian Railways - Lietuvos geležinkeliai)
  • ASG (Aukštaitija narrow gauge railways - Aukštaitijos siaurasis geležinkelis)

  • CFL (Luxembourg Railways - Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois)

  • MZ (Macedonian Railways - Makedonski Zeleznici)

  • CFM (Moldovan Railway - Calea Ferată din Moldova)

  • CP (Portuguese Railways - Caminhos de ferro portugueses); Since 2004: Portuguese Trains - Comboios de Portugal
  • Fertagus (Portuguese Private Railway Operator)
  • Comsa
  • Takargo

  • CFR (National Railway Company - Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate "CFR")
  • GFR (Grup Feroviar Roman - Romanian Railway Group)
  • Unifertrans
  • Servtrans

  • RZhD (Russian Railways - Российские железные дороги, Rossiskiye Zheleznye Dorogi)

  • ŽS (Serbian Railways - Železnice Srbije)
  • Beovoz Belgrade Underground railway

  • ŽSR (Železnice Slovenskej Republiky - The Railways of the Slovak Republic, infrastructure manager)
  • ZSSK (Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko, a.s., passenger transport operator)
  • ZSSKC (Železničná Spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a.s., freight transport operator)
  • BRKS (Bratislavská regionálna koľajová spoločnosť, a.s.)
  • LTE (LTE Logistik a Transport Slovakia s.r.o.)
  • SŽDS (Slovenská železničná dopravná spoločnosť, a.s.)

See also: Swiss railroads, List of railway companies in Switzerland

  • UZ (Ukrainian Railway - Укрзалізниця, Ukrzaliznytsya)

North America

South America and Central America

Freight operators

Buenos Aires suburban operators

Long distance and regional passenger operators

Those lines were ever privately owned:

Here are some pictures and information on Ferrocarril Nacional de Honduras http://www.fahrplancenter.com/FCNacionalHondurasEntry.html

see some pictures on http://www.fahrplancenter.com/NicaraguaTitel.html

See also

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