it’s nearly 2000 km long (1215 miles) and 90% of it is permafrost, it serves the highest train station in the world: the Tanggula Railway Station at an elevation of16,627 ft (5000 m).

Lanzhou-injiang High Speed Railway

兰新高铁：绵延1000英里，穿越无人居住的西北地区，时速350公里(217英里)，穿越戈壁沙漠和塔克拉玛干沙漠。

with a length of 1000 miles, it runs through the uninhabited north west regions of , crossing the Gobi dessert and the Taklamakan dessert while cruising at 350 kph (217 mph).

Shanghai Maglev

上海磁悬浮：最高运行速度431公里每小时(270英里每小时)，是世界上运行速度最快的列车，造价约12亿美元，虽然在大都市上海运营，但由于运营成本巨大，该公司每年仍亏损约100万美元。

at a top operation speed of 431 kph (270 mph) it is the fastest operating train in the world, it costs around $1.2 billion to build and although serving the megacity of Shanghai, the company is still loosing around $1 million every year because of the massive operation costs.

Stephen Dev

World’s Longest Train Route

The world's longest train route spans more than 8,000 miles, crosses through eight countries, and covers a greater distance than the diameter between the North and South pole.

The -Europe Block Train begins in the east city of Yiwu and crosses through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France before reaching its destination 21-days later in the Spanish capital of Madrid.

Also called Yixnou, the route surpasses the world's second and third longest routes, the Trans-Siberian railway (5,772 miles) and the Moscow-to- (4,340 miles) train. The Yiwu-Madrid line serves trains pulling 82 cargo wagons.

世界上最长的铁路

世界上最长的铁路跨越8000多英里，穿越8个国家，长度超过了北极和南极之间的直径。

中欧班列从东部城市义乌出发，途经哈萨克斯坦、俄罗斯、白俄罗斯、波兰、德国和法国，21天后抵达西班牙首都马德里。

这条线路也被称为“义新欧”线，超过了世界上第二和第三长的线路——西伯利亚大铁路(5772英里)和莫斯科-线(4340英里)。义乌-马德里线上的列车有82节车厢。

Raghu Patri, Life enthusiast

The Konkan Railway route in India is one of the most scenic in the world. The entire route passes through wonderful terrain over mountains, across rivers and through some of best rain fed forests of India.  The entire stretch of about 740 kms is full over marvelous bridges and tunnels, some of them amazing engineering marvels individually.  There are a total of about 2000 bridges and 91 tunnels in this route.

印度的康坎铁路是世界上风景最优美的铁路之一。整个路线穿越了优美的地形、巍峨的山脉、川流不息的河流和印度最茂密的一些雨林。全长740公里，途径许多壮观的桥梁和隧道，其中一些工程奇迹令人惊叹。这条路线共有约2000座桥梁和91条隧道。

Parag Kulkarni, Software Engineer

The Nilgiri Mountain Railways : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil... is a a UNESCO World-Heritage-Site. To quote from wikipedia :

The 'Nilagiri Passenger' train covers a distance of 26 mi (41.8 km),[2] travels through 208 curves, 16 tunnels,[2] and 250 bridges.[2] The uphill journey takes around 290 minutes (4.8 hours), and the  downhill journey takes 215 minutes (3.6 hours) It has the steepest track  in Asia with a maxmum gradient of 8.33%.[2]

Its one of my earliest memories of train travel, making the journey from the Wellington or Conoor station to Ooty (the final stop and highest point of the track). Everything along the route from the stations, houses, farms, valley views are either quaint or breathtaking. It left a deep-enough memory in my mind to return and make the same trip tens of times over again :)

Oh and it was also the "location" for the shooting of the famous bollywood song/dance number :

尼吉里铁路是联合国教科文组织世界遗产，全长26英里(41.8公里)，经过208个弯道、16条隧道、250座桥，上山约需290分钟(4.8小时)，下山约需215分钟(3.6小时)，是亚洲最陡的铁道，最大坡度为8.33%

这是我最早的火车旅行之一，从车站、房屋、农场到山谷，沿途的一切要么古色古香，要么令人叹为观止。它在我的脑海里留下了足够深刻的记忆，流连忘返。这里也是宝莱坞著名歌舞片的拍摄地。

Anonymous

No railways in some part of central America.. Due to constant earthquake...

Paul theroux works on travel mostly features different railway..

Some countries like Egypt has excellent railway although it lacks in other infrastructures.

Indian Railway is known as the world's largest moving toilet

由于地震不断，中美洲部分地区没有铁路…

保罗·泰鲁（美国火车旅行家/作家）关于旅行的作品大多以不同的铁路为特色。

有些国家，比如埃及，虽然缺乏其他基础设施，但铁路却很不错。

印度铁路是世界上最大的移动厕所

外文：https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-interesting-facts-about-the-railways-around-the-world

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