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total: 470 km
broad gauge: 470 km 1.520-m gauge (2004)

Latvia
total: 2,303 km
broad gauge: 2,270 km 1.520-m gauge (257 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 33 km 0.750-m gauge (2004)

Lebanon
total: 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435-m
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050-m
note: rail system became unusable because of damage during the civil
war in the 1980s; short sections are operable (2004)

Liberia
total: 490 km
standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge
note: none of the railways are in operation because of the civil war
(2004)

Libya
0 km
note: Libya is working on 7 lines totaling 2,757 km of 1.435-m gauge
track; it hopes to have trains running by 2008 (2004)

Lithuania
total: 1,998 km
broad gauge: 1,807 km 1.524-m gauge (122 km electrified)
standard gauge: 22 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 169 km 0.750-m gauge (2004)

Luxembourg
total: 274 km
standard gauge: 274 km 1.435-m gauge (242 km electrified) (2004)

Macedonia
total: 699 km
standard gauge: 699 km 1.435-m gauge (233 km electrified) (2004)

Madagascar
total: 732 km
narrow gauge: 732 km 1.000-m gauge (2004)

Malawi
total: 797 km
narrow gauge: 797 km 1.067-m gauge (2004)

Malaysia
total: 1,890 km (207 km electrified)
standard gauge: 57 km 1.435-m gauge (57 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,833 km 1.000-m gauge (150 km electrified) (2004)

Mali
total: 729 km
narrow gauge: 729 km 1.000-m gauge (2004)

Man, Isle of
total: 61 km (35 km electrified) (2003)

Mauritania
717 km
standard gauge: 717 km 1.435-m gauge (2004)

Mexico
total: 17,634 km
standard gauge: 17,634 km 1.435-m gauge (2004)

Moldova
total: 1,138 km
broad gauge: 1,124 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 14 km 1.435-m gauge (2004)

Mongolia
total: 1,810 km
broad gauge: 1,810 km 1.524-m gauge (2004)

Morocco
total: 1,907 km
standard gauge: 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km electrified) (2004)

Mozambique
total: 3,123 km
narrow gauge: 2,983 km 1.067-m gauge; 140 km 0.762-m gauge (2004)

Namibia
total: 2,382 km
narrow gauge: 2,382 km 1.067-m gauge (2004)

Nepal
total: 59 km
narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2004)

Netherlands
total: 2,808 km
standard gauge: 2,808 km 1.435-m gauge (2,061 km electrified) (2004)

New Zealand
total: 3,898 km
narrow gauge: 3,898 km 1.067-m gauge (506 km electrified) (2004)

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