Long railway lines that join cities and cross continents, from the first intercity line to the Trans-Siberian and the Qinghai-Tibet lines. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the railway an inter-city railway or a transcontinental railroad or railway. It excludes urban metros and branch lines. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Trans-Siberian Railway
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The Trans-Siberian Railway, historically known as the Great Siberian Route and often shortened to Transsib, is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East.
Wikipedia: Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world.
Wikipedia: First Transcontinental Railroad
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America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S.
Wikipedia: Qinghai-Tibet Railway
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The Qinghai-Tibet railway or Qingzang railway (Standard Tibetan: མཚོ་བོད་ལྕགས་ལམ།, mtsho bod lcags lam; simplified Chinese: 青藏铁路; traditional Chinese: 青藏鐵路; pinyin: Qīngzàng Tiělù) is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet.
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