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Railway Structures
of the World’s Railways

A community-built directory of the world’s railway structures — bridges, viaducts, tunnels, level crossings, snow sheds, underpasses and aqueducts, organised country by country, from the Forth Bridge to the Chenab.

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BRI

Rail bridges

Single-span and multi-span railway bridges carrying mainline, high-speed, heritage and metro services over water, valleys and other obstacles.

11,191 listed VIA

Rail viaducts

Long multi-arch and multi-pier railway viaducts — the great brick, stone, steel and concrete viaducts of the world’s railways.

788 listed TUN

Rail tunnels

Bored, mined and immersed railway tunnels carrying trains beneath mountains, cities, rivers and straits.

5,314 listed LEV

Level crossings

Physical crossings where a road, path or track meets the railway at level, for vehicles or on foot — protected by barriers, signals, or both, or neither.

14,016 listed SNO

Snow sheds

Snow and avalanche galleries that cover the track to carry trains through mountain passes under heavy snow, rockfall and avalanche.

6 listed UND

Rail underpasses

Where a railway passes beneath another route or structure — road over rail, aqueduct over rail, and bridge over rail.

1 listed AQU

Aqueducts over rail

Navigable and watercourse aqueducts carried across railway lines, so trains pass beneath the water.

4,024 listed

Records

Longest

Tallest

Oldest

Most spans

Ribblehead Viaduct 24 spans GB
Glenfinnan Viaduct 21 spans GB
Edstone Aqueduct 14 spans GB
Kalte Rinne Viaduct 10 spans AT
Brusio Spiral Viaduct 9 spans CH
Landwasser Viaduct 6 spans CH
Avoncliff Aqueduct 3 spans GB
Dundas Aqueduct 3 spans GB

Through the decades

Structures with a recorded opening year — pick a decade to browse them.

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Europe

Asia

AE United Arab Emirates 16 structures AF Afghanistan 3 structures AM Armenia 20 structures AZ Azerbaijan 13 structures BD Bangladesh 56 structures BH Bahrain Help start this page BN Brunei Help start this page BT Bhutan 1 structure CN China 2,879 structures DG Diego Garcia Help start this page GE Georgia 24 structures HK Hong Kong 34 structures ID Indonesia 152 structures IL Israel 28 structures IN India 841 structures IO British Indian Ocean Territory Help start this page IQ Iraq 5 structures IR Iran 118 structures JO Jordan 4 structures JP Japan 6,811 structures KG Kyrgyzstan 26 structures KH Cambodia 1 structure KP North Korea 30 structures KR South Korea 256 structures KW Kuwait 2 structures KZ Kazakhstan 106 structures LA Laos 1 structure LB Lebanon 1 structure LK Sri Lanka 33 structures MM Myanmar 35 structures MN Mongolia 7 structures MO Macao 10 structures MV Maldives Help start this page MY Malaysia 17 structures NP Nepal 10 structures OM Oman Help start this page PH Philippines 89 structures PK Pakistan 50 structures PS Palestine 15 structures QA Qatar 3 structures SA Saudi Arabia 22 structures SG Singapore 15 structures SY Syria 10 structures TH Thailand 40 structures TJ Tajikistan 4 structures TL Timor-Leste Help start this page TM Turkmenistan 10 structures TW Taiwan 686 structures UZ Uzbekistan 53 structures VN Vietnam 68 structures YE Yemen Help start this page

Africa

North America

South America

AR Argentina 109 structures BO Bolivia 48 structures BR Brazil 285 structures CL Chile 81 structures CO Colombia 37 structures EC Ecuador 20 structures FK Falkland Islands Help start this page GF French Guiana Help start this page GY Guyana Help start this page PE Peru 23 structures PY Paraguay Help start this page SR Suriname Help start this page UY Uruguay 3 structures VE Venezuela 19 structures

Oceania

Antarctica

AQ Antarctica Help start this page BV Bouvet Island Help start this page GS South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Help start this page HM Heard Island and McDonald Islands Help start this page TF French Southern Territories Help start this page

Latest additions

CN

"Flying Panda" line

China

3727 m long

Rail viaduct Operational

GB

"Illegal" Crossing

United Kingdom

Level crossing Operational

BG

"Железният мост"

Bulgaria

114 m long

Rail bridge Operational

AU

#1 Arrival Road

Australia

1 m long

Rail bridge Operational

US

#1 Pocket

United States

201 m long

Rail tunnel Operational

AU

#2 Arrival Road

Australia

73 m long

Rail tunnel Operational

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About this directory

Structure pages — bridges, viaducts, tunnels, level crossings, snow sheds, underpasses and aqueducts — are compiled from public records and reviewed community contributions. Every country page exists from day one and grows as the community adds structures.

Community first, always moderated

Anyone can submit a structure, photographs, drawings or a data file. Every public submission is checked by a moderator before it appears; site editors publish their own updates directly.

Corrections welcome

Spotted an error or a missing span? Use the contribute form to send an update — corrections are credited on the structure page.

Data sources

Base structure data compiled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0) and curated public records, extended and corrected by the community.

Open data: download the dataset (CSV) · JSON · read API.

Railway Structuresof the World’s Railways