Railway lines, networks and urban rail transit systems considered as built works and operating history rather than as the locomotives and trains that run on them, spanning the first intercity railways through continental main lines and metropolitan rapid transit and cable-hauled systems. Belongs here: named historic railways, continental rail lines and urban rail or cable transit systems. Does not belong here: the locomotives, trainsets or cable cars themselves, tracked as vehicle entities, or named train services, tracked as route-service entities.
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evidence indicates that a 6 to 8.5 km long Diolkos paved trackway transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece from around 600 BC.
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