Rail transport company

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A rail transport company is a

• a manufacturing company,
• a
  railway undertaking providing services through operating rolling stock
  ,
• a railway infrastructure manager.

In some jurisdictions such as the

Structure

In Europe, the EU requires its members to separate the national

Some countries have in turn a national railway company that owns all track and operates all trains in the country, for instance the Russian Railways^[2] (the world's largest rail company by network size). Other countries have many different, sometimes competing, railway companies that operate each their own lines, particularly in the United States and Canada.^[3] Countries may have both public and private railway companies, for instance the United States, where the publicly-owned Amtrak exists alongside numerous private operators.^[4]

See also

• Railway undertaking
• Railway infrastructure manager
• List of railway companies
• List of countries by rail transport network size
• Rail transport by country

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