The Trans-Siberian Railway,historically known as the Great Siberian Route and often shortened to Transsib,is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East. Spanning a length of over 9,289 kilometers,it is the longest railway line in the world. It runs from the city of Moscow in the west to the city of Vladivostok in the east.
The Deutsche Bahn AG is the national railway company of Germany,and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin,it is a joint-stock company (AG) and the largest railway company in the world.
The Trans-Asian Railway(TAR) is a project to create an integrated freight railway network across Europe and Asia. The project is of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
DB Cargo UK,is a British rail freight company owned by Deutsche Bahn AG and headquartered in Doncaster,England.
The Eurasian Land Bridge,sometimes called the New Silk Road,is the rail transport route for moving freight and passengers overland between Pacific seaports in the Russian Far East and China and seaports in Europe. The route,a transcontinental railroad and rail land bridge,currently comprises the Trans-Siberian Railway,which runs through Russia and is sometimes called the Northern East-West Corridor,and the New Eurasian Land Bridge or Second Eurasian Continental Bridge,running through China and Kazakhstan. As of November 2007,about one percent of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes.
The British Rail Class 92 is a dual-voltage electric locomotive,which can run on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail. It was designed specifically to operate services through the Channel Tunnel between Great Britain and France. Eurotunnel indicates the Class 92 locomotive as the reference for other locomotives which railway undertakings might want to get certified for usage in the Channel tunnel.
The Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) Class 66 are Co-Co diesel locomotives built by EMD for the European heavy freight market. Designed for use in Great Britain as the British Rail Class 66,a development of the Class 59,they have been adapted and certified for use in other European countries. Outside Europe,40 locomotives have been sold to Egyptian Railways for passenger operation.
Sinotrans Limited is one of the largest logistics companies in China. The business areas of the company include storage and terminal services and trucking and marine transportation.
DB Cargo Polska is a Polish company operating mainly in rail freight transportation. It is presently owned by the German state railway company Deutsche Bahn (DB).
SBB Cargo is a subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) specialising in railfreight and is operated as the Freight division. Swiss Federal Railways is a former state-owned and -controlled company that was transformed in 1999 into a joint-stock company under special legislation following the first Swiss railway reform and divided up into three independent divisions:Passenger,Freight and Infrastructure. The headquarters of Swiss Federal Railways SBB Cargo AG,the Freight division's official designation,are in Olten. In 2013,SBB Cargo had 3,061 employees and achieved consolidated sales of CHF 953 million. In Switzerland,SBB Cargo is the market leader in rail freight,transporting over 175,000 tons of goods every day. This corresponds to the weight of 425 fully loaded jumbo jets.
Rail transport in Lithuania consists of freight shipments and passenger services. The construction of the first railway line in Lithuania began in 1859. As of 2021,the total length of railways in Lithuania was 1,868.8 km (1,161.2 mi). Lietuvos Geležinkeliai,the national state-owned railway company,operates most of the passenger and freight services.
The Polish railways network consists of around 18,510 kilometres (11,500 mi) of track as of 2019,of which 11,998 km (7,455 mi) is electrified. The national electrification system runs at 3 kV DC.
DB Schenker is a division of German rail operator Deutsche Bahn that focuses on logistics. The company was acquired by Deutsche Bahn as Schenker-Stinnes in 2002. It comprises divisions for air,land,sea freight,and Contract Logistics.
ERS Railways is a rail freight company presently owned by the Swiss rail freight company Hupac.
The New Eurasian Land Bridge,also called the Second or New Eurasian Continental Bridge,is the southern counterpart to the Eurasian Land Bridge and runs through China and Central Asia with possible plans for expansion into South and West Asia. The Eurasian Land Bridge system is important as an overland rail link between China and Europe,with transit between the two via Central Asia and Russia. In the light of the Russia-Ukraine war,China halted further investments in the part of the bridge that was planned to go through Russia. After the war began,the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route began to actively develop,which passes through the countries of Central Asia,the Caspian Sea and the countries of the South Caucasus,bypassing Russia.
Hupac is a railway company in Switzerland. It primarily provides international intermodal freight shipment,but has also engaged in rolling stock procurement and leasing activities.
Rail transport is an important mode of long-distance transportation in China. As of 2024,the country had more than 159,000 km (98,798 mi)[a] of railways,the second longest network in the world. By the end of 2023,China had more than 45,000 kilometres of high-speed rail (HSR),the longest HSR network in the world.
Chongqing–Xinjiang–Europe railway,abbreviated as Yu–Xin–Ou railway,is a freight rail route linking Chongqing in Southwestern China,with Duisburg,Germany. The name 渝新欧is an acronym,consisting of Yu,Xin,Ou.
The Yiwu–Madrid railway line is a railway route taken by container trains from the Chinese city of Yiwu to the Spanish city of Madrid,a distance of approximately 13,000 kilometres (8,100 mi),and the longest in the world. The Trans-Siberian Railway was previously the longest. It is one of several routes used by long distance freight trains on the "New Eurasian Land Bridge".
The Yiwu–London railway line is a freight railway route from Yiwu,China,to London,United Kingdom,covering a distance of roughly 12,000 km. This makes it the second longest railway freight route in the world after the Yiwu–Madrid railway line,which spans 12,874 km. It is one of several long-distance freight railway routes from China to Europe on the "New Eurasian Land Bridge" and part of establishing a modern-day Silk Road. The route was opened on 1 January 2017,making London the 15th European city to have a railway route connection with China,and takes 18 days to complete.
