Railway company

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A railway company or railroad company is a private company or corporation that owns a particular set of railroad tracks or trains.

Historically in some countries, over a period of time, it has gone from Railway Company, then Nationalised to Government Railways, then reverted to Railway Company as operators of the railways.

With privatisation in the 1980s and the separation of the track from the trains that run upon them, there are now track-only companies and train-only companies.

In some cases, the "Line" or route name is named after the railway company (for example, the CSX Corporation) or the names of locations along the route (for example, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad