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Though trains have been around since 1804, not everywhere has the connection of a train station or railway line.
For context, the UK has over 2,500 passenger railway stations, not including those in undergrounds or heritage railways.
The main reasons for countries not having railway systems are low population density and poverty.
Here, Express.co.uk takes a look at the ten biggest countries in the world with no public railway lines.
Libya has not had operational railways since 1965. Plans for a new network have been in development for years but construction was suspended due to the civil war in 2011.
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Infrastructure in Chad is generally poor, especially in the northeast with river transport limited to the southwest. There were plans in 2012 for a railway but none have been built.
Niger uses the Benin and Togo railway lines to carry goods from the coast to its border but only has one internal railway, from Niamey to Dosso, which was built in 2016.
There was one railway in Somalia, the Mogadishu-Villabruzzi Railway built by Italy in the 1910s. It connected the capital to agricultural areas but it was dismantled in the 1940s.
The Central African Republic had a rail line proposed in 2002 from Cameroon to the capital of the CAR, but there are no railways in the country at present.
Roads in Yemen are poor, though there are projects to upgrade them. The country has no railways, though the government has had plans to build new infrastructure.
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Papua New Guinea’s transport is limited by mountainous terrain. The capital is not linked by road to any other major towns and many villages can only be reached by plane or foot.
There are no mainline railways in Oman, though some are planned. The country has a small tourist train into the Al Hoota Cave Complex in a four-minute journey.
Iceland has no public railways, though there have been proposals for lines between Keflavík and Reykjavík. Former locomotive-powered and hand-operated railways have closed.
Until 1961 in Bhutan, travel was generally done by foot or on mules and horses due to the lack of paved roads. Now it has 8,000km of roads and two airports but no railways.
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