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Our railways
The Island
|June 30, 2025
Networks of railways were first built for the purpose of transporting heavy goods to capital cities for sale in the local market or for shipment abroad.
Steel rails and steel wheels are for the business of transporting heavy goods for a profit. There is no better example of this than Russian Railways where 70 wagons filled with coal nuggets weighing a total of more than 5,000 tons each trip, are transported, twice a day all the way to China! These coal wagons, together with enormously long trains of oil and gas wagons, enrich the Russian coffers to overflowing!
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