m electrified) (2001)

Azerbaijan:
total: 2,125 km in common carrier service; does not
include industrial lines

broad gauge: 2,125 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (1993)

Bahamas, The:
0 km

Bahrain:
0 km

Bangladesh:
total: 2,745 km

broad gauge: 923 km 1.676-m gauge

narrow gauge: 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2000)

Barbados:
0 km

Belarus:
total: 5,523 km

broad gauge: 5,523 km 1.520-m gauge (875 km electrified) (2000)

Belgium:
total: 3,437 km (2,446 km electrified; 2,563 km double
track)

standard gauge: 3,437 km 1.435-m gauge (1998)

Belize:
0 km

Benin:
total: 578 km (single track)

narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge (2000)

Bermuda:
0 km

Bhutan:
0 km

Bolivia:
total: 3,691 km (single track)

narrow gauge: 3,652 km 1.000-m gauge; 39 km 0.760-m gauge (13 km
electrified) (1995)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
total: 1,021 km (electrified 795 km;
operating as diesel or steam until grids are repaired)

standard gauge: 1,021 km 1.435-m gauge; note - many segments still
need repair and/or reconstruction (2000)

Botswana:
total: 888 km

narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2000)

Brazil:
total: 30,539 km (2,129 km electrified); note - excludes
urban rail

broad gauge: 5,679 km 1.600-m gauge (1199 km electrified)

standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge

narrow gauge: 24,666 km 1.000-m gauge (930 km electrified)

dual gauge: 336 km 1.000-m and 1.600-m gauges (three rails) (1999
est.)

British Virgin Islands:
0 km

Brunei:
total: 13 km (private line)

narrow gauge: 13 km 0.610-m gauge

Bulgaria:
total: 4,294 km

standard gauge: 4,049 km 1.435-m gauge (2,710 km electrified; 917
km double track)

narrow gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge (1998)

Burkina Faso:
total: 622 km (517 km from Ouagadougou to the Cote
d'Ivoire border and 105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya)

narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

Burma:
total: 3,991 km

narrow gauge: 3,991 km 1.000-m gauge

Burundi:
0 km

Cambodia:
total: 603 km

narrow gauge: 603 km 1.000-m gauge

Cameroon:
total: 1,104 km

narrow gauge: 1,104 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

Canada:
total: 36,114 km; note - there are two major
transcontinental freight railway systems: Canadian National
(privatized November 1995) and Canadian Pacific Railway; passenger
service p