pletion originally set for mid-1994; Libya
signed contracts with two private companies - Bahne of Egypt and Jez
Sistemas Ferroviarios of Spain - in 1998 for the supply of crossings
and pointwork (1001)

Liechtenstein:
total: 18.5 km; note - owned, operated, and included
in statistics of Austrian Federal Railways

standard gauge: 18.5 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified)

Lithuania:
total: 2,002 km

broad gauge: 2,002 km 1.524-m gauge (122 km electrified) (1994)

Luxembourg:
total: 274 km

standard gauge: 274 km 1.435-m gauge (242 km electrified; 178 km
double track) (1998)

Macau:
0 km

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
total: 699 km

standard gauge: 699 km 1.435-m gauge (233 km electrified)

note: a 56-km extension of the Kumanovo-Beljakovci line to the
Bulgarian border at Gyveshevo is under construction (2001)

Madagascar:
total: 883 km

narrow gauge: 883 km 1.000-m gauge (1994)

Malawi:
total: 789 km

narrow gauge: 789 km 1.067-m gauge

Malaysia:
total: 1,801 km

narrow gauge: 1,801 km 1.000-m gauge (148 km electrified) (2000)

Maldives:
0 km

Mali:
total: 729 km (linked to Senegal's rail system through Kayes)

narrow gauge: 729 km 1.000-m gauge

Malta:
0 km

Man, Isle of:
total: 68.5 km (43.5 km electrified)

Marshall Islands:
0 km

Martinique:
0 km

Mauritania:
total: 750 km (single track); note - owned and operated
by government mining company

standard gauge: 750 km 1.435-m gauge (1995)

Mauritius:
0 km

Mayotte:
0 km

Mexico:
total: 31,048 km

standard gauge: 30,958 km 1.435-m gauge (246 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 90 km 0.914-m gauge (1998 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of:
0 km

Moldova:
total: 1,328 km

broad gauge: 1,328 km 1.520-m gauge (1992)

Monaco:
total: 1.7 km

standard gauge: 1.7 km 1.435-m gauge

Mongolia:
1,815 km

broad gauge: 1,815 km 1.524-m gauge (2001)

Montserrat:
0 km

Morocco:
total: 1,907 km

standard gauge: 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km electrified; 540
km double track)

Mozambique:
total: 3,131 km

narrow gauge: 2,988 km 1.067-m gauge; 143 km 0.762-m gauge (1994)

Namibia:
total: 2,382 km

narrow gauge: 2,382 km 1.067-m gauge; single track (1995)

Nauru:
total: 5 km; note - used to haul phosphates from the center
of the island to processing faci