RAILWAY NETWORK OF THE WORLD

  RAILWAY NETWORK OF THE WORLD

  

  Trans – continental railways

·         Railway routes which join two ends of the continent, e.g., Canada pacific railway, trans – Siberian railway and the Australian trans – continental railway.

 Canada pacific railway (CPR)

·         Runs from Vancouver (British Columbia) on the pacific coast to st. John ’s (New Brunswick) on the Atlantic coast.

·         Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, fort William, port author, Sudbury, I Ottawa and Montreal are the main stations of this route.

·         Extensively used for freight transport and unpopular for passenger transport.

·         Joins Quebec – Montreal industrial region with soft wood forest region and wheat region of prairies.

The Canada national railway (CNR)

·         Runs from Halifax in Nova Scotia to Vancouver via Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Edmonton.

·         Churchill on Hudson Bay is linked to the main route by an important branch line.

·         Three important lines diverge from Edmonton. One runs to mo Murray on the Athabasca, another serves the settlements of the Peace River district and third crosses the Rockies to Vancouver.

Trans – Siberian railway (Eurasia)

·         Double track rail routes starting from st. Petersburg (Leningrad) and Moscow in te west to Vladivostok in the east

·         World’s longest continuous rail route, crosses – seven time zones and cover more than 9,300 km (5,779 miles).

·          Moscow, Ryazon, Ufa, kurgan, petropavalsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Toyshet, Irkutsk, Ullan Ude, Chita and Khabarovsk, are the main stations of this route.

·         Some of the major cities Odessa (Ukraine), Baku (Caucasus), Tashkent (Turkestan), Ulan Bator (Mongolia) Shenyang (Manchuria) and Beijing (China) are also linked to the main line.

       The Australian transcontinental railway.

·         Start from Fremantle (Perth) to Sydney, via kalgoorlie, coolgardie, port Augusta, Broken Hill and Canberra

·         Alice Springs in the north and Adelaide in the south are linked to the main line.

       The Chile – Argentine Railway

·         Only one transcontinental railway connecting Valparaiso (Chile) with Buenos Aires (Argentina) through Usplatta pass.