Railway companies

This is a list of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the past.

Note also that in some countries, the railway operating bodies are not companies, but are government departments or authorities.

Particularly in many European countries beginning in the late-1980's, with privatizations and the separation of the track ownership and management from running the trains, there are now many track-only companies and train-only companies.

Due to civil war, a good portion of the railway system of the Dem Rep of Congo is not presently functioning)

(There are no railways in Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, and Somalia.)

There are few Private companies offering private carrying,

Pakistan Express is a new business class privatized train.

*Deutsche Bahn (DB AG - German Railways 1992-)

Passenger services

Freight only

A few Dutch railway stations are served, even for journeys within the country, by foreign railway companies under the responsibility of NS; these companies are:

Cargo operators in the Netherlands

There are also a couple of Train Charter company's active in the Netherlands;

- Berglandtrein

Those lines were always privately owned:

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