January 18, 2024

13 Popular Countries That Don't Have Trains

13 minutes

There are countries where this simply isn’t possible – they have no trains! If you ever decide to visit Iceland, don't expect to travel across the island in a train; there's no public railway network in the country.

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Reykjavik/Iceland - December 2012 Only two steam locomotives were ever used in Iceland. This one is named Minor. It is on display at Reykjavik harbour during the summer months: By Peter Wooton/Shutterstock.com, https://www.shutterstock.com/image-ph...

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SUMMARY:

- Why doesn’t Iceland have railroads? There are three reasons: the harsh climate, the small population, and their love of cars, which are the number one means of transportation in the country.

- If you look at a map of Bhutan, you'll see mostly mountains and hills. Building railways here would mean digging tunnels and constructing high bridges. That's one super-expensive project.

- Andorra and Bhutan have one thing in common – mountainous terrain. That's why there aren't, and never have been, railways here. In 2004, there was a plan to build an elevated cable metro system called 'Metro Aeri’, but it was never brought to life.

- Libya is one of the countries on the list that used to have a railway network, but is now train-free. The first 250 miles of railways were built here by the Kingdom of Italy back in the early 1900s. By 1965, the lines had been taken to pieces.

- If you ever visit Cyprus, make sure to stop by at the Railway Museum in the village of Evrychou. You’ll see models of the stations, wagons, photos and other things that prove railways did exist here, but are now just history.

- Now, public buses in Malta are pretty crowded and the roads are busy, so a railway probably wouldn't hurt. The only thing is that building trains above the ground would create too much noise pollution, and Malta is densely populated, with one town flowing into the other.

- Unlike many countries on the list where building a railway system would be simply too expensive, Kuwait doesn't seem to have the money problem.

- One of the smallest countries in South America, Suriname, has an interesting history when it comes to railways. At the beginning of the 20th century, a single-track meter gauge rail-line called Lawa Railway was supposed to be built to make the goldfields more reachable.

- The US has the longest total amount of rails – over 150,000 miles of tracks.

- China is number two in the world when it comes to railroad tracks. It has over 80,000 miles.

- Russia, the world's largest country, comes third in railroad length, and its tracks run for over 50,000 miles.

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