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Gyeongui Line

The Gyeongui Line (경의선; 京義線) is a Korean railway opened in 1906 from Seoul to Sinuiju, later severed by Korea's division; its southern section runs from Seoul to Dorasan.

Hanseong Electric Tram

The Hanseong Electric Tram (한성 전차) was the electric streetcar service opened in Seoul, then Hanseong, in 1899, the first railway on the Korean Peninsula, which ran for nearly seventy years until its closure in 1968.

Hanzōmon Line (半蔵門線)

The Hanzōmon Line (半蔵門線), operated by Tokyo Metro, is a 16.8 km underground subway line in Tokyo from Shibuya to Oshiage, with through service onto the Tokyu Den-en-toshi and Tobu Isesaki lines.

Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)

The Harbour line is a suburban railway corridor of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, running from CSMT to Vadala Road and branching to Goregaon and Panvel, serving 25 stations.

Hogwarts Express (Universal Orlando Resort)

The Hogwarts Express is a themed funicular railway at Universal Orlando Resort linking King's Cross Station in Universal Studios Florida and Hogsmeade Station in Islands of Adventure, opened July 8, 2014.

Hokkaido Shinkansen

The Hokkaido Shinkansen is a Japanese high-speed rail line run by JR Hokkaido from Shin-Aomori through the Seikan Tunnel to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, opened on 26 March 2016, with an extension to Sapporo under construction.

Hokuriku Shinkansen

The Hokuriku Shinkansen (北陸新幹線) is a Japanese high-speed rail line linking Tokyo with the Hokuriku region via Nagano, Toyama, and Kanazawa, extended to Tsuruga in 2024 and planned to reach Osaka.

Horseshoe Curve (Pennsylvania)

Horseshoe Curve is a three-track railroad curve west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened in 1854 to carry its main line over the Allegheny Mountains.

Indian Railways freight corridors

The Indian Railways freight corridors, formally the Dedicated Freight Corridors, are 2,843 km of freight-only railway lines built parallel to India's congested trunk routes, completed in 2026.

Inner Ring Line

The Inner Ring Line, in Bengaluru known as the Inner Ring Metro, is a proposed 34-kilometer fully underground circular metro corridor in Bengaluru, India, currently shelved.

Iowa Northern Railway Company

Iowa Northern Railway Company (IANR) was a short line railroad in northeastern Iowa, operating former Rock Island lines from 1981 until its 2025 absorption into Canadian National.

Island Rail Corridor

The Island Rail Corridor, formerly the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, is a corridor on Vancouver Island built in the late 19th century, with passenger service suspended since 2011.

Jammu–Baramulla line

The Jammu–Baramulla line, known as the Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL), connects Jammu Tawi to Baramulla, first linking the Kashmir Valley to India's rail network in 2025.

Jingguang Railway

The Jingguang Railway (京广线) is a Chinese trunk railway connecting Beijing with Guangzhou, about 2,324 km long and formed in 1957 by joining two earlier lines at Wuhan.

Jungfrau Railway

The Jungfrau Railway (German: Jungfraubahn) is a cogwheel railway in the Swiss Alps, opened in 1912, running from Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch, Europe's highest station at 3,454 meters.

Keiyō Line (京葉線)

The Keiyō Line (京葉線) is a 43 km JR East railway from Tokyo Station to Soga in Chiba along Tokyo Bay, the main rail access to Tokyo Disney Resort.

Koralm Tunnel

The Koralm Tunnel is a 32.9 km railway tunnel in Austria that opened in December 2025, cutting the Graz to Klagenfurt train journey to 45 minutes.

Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, also called the Lac-Mégantic derailment, was a runaway freight train carrying crude oil that derailed, burned, and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, on 6 July 2013, killing 47 people.

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash, also known as the Paddington rail crash, was a 1999 head-on collision between two passenger trains near Paddington station in London that killed 31 people.

Lanxin Railway

The Lanxin Railway, also called the Lanzhou–Xinjiang Railway (兰新铁路), is a 2,423 km railway from Lanzhou through the Hexi Corridor to Urumqi and the Kazakh border, built between 1952 and 1962.

Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway

The Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway is a 1,776 km high-speed passenger rail line from Lanzhou through Xining to Urumqi, opened on 26 December 2014 as China's longest and its first built in high-altitude, windy regions.

Level crossing

A level crossing, also known as a railroad or grade crossing, is a place where a railway crosses a road or path without a bridge or tunnel.

Level Crossing Removal Project

The Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP) is a Victorian Government infrastructure program that removes level crossings in Melbourne, established in 2015 and expanded from 50 to 110 crossings.

Line 1 (北京地铁1号线) (Beijing Subway)

Line 1 (北京地铁1号线) is the oldest line of the Beijing Subway, an east–west trunk from Pingguoyuan through Tian'anmen Square to Sihui East, opened in 1971.

Line 5 Eglinton

Line 5 Eglinton, also known as the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, is a 19-kilometer light rail line in Toronto operated by the TTC, opened in February 2026 after nearly five years of delays.

Link light rail

Link light rail is a light rail system in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, serving Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Lynnwood, and Federal Way.

List of high-speed railway lines

The list of high-speed railway lines covers rail lines built for trains at roughly 250 km/h or more, a threshold set by EU Directive 96/48/EC and adopted by the UIC.

List of railway accidents and incidents in India

The list of railway accidents and incidents in India covers major crashes on Indian Railways, including the 1981 Bihar disaster that killed about 800 people.

Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), opened in England in 1830, was the world's first inter-city passenger railway and the first to rely exclusively on steam locomotives.

Lobito Corridor

The Lobito Corridor links the Atlantic port of Lobito in Angola to the Copperbelt of the DRC and Zambia, chiefly to export copper and cobalt via the Benguela Railway.