List_of_suburban_and_commuter_rail_systems List_of_suburban_and_commuter_rail_systems

List of suburban and commuter rail systems - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Average, Bourgeois, Circumflex, City, Civic, Common, Commonplace, Conventional, Downtown, Garden, Interurban

This is an alphabetical listing of cities which have commuter or suburban railways. Unlike metros, these systems usually operate on main line tracks unsegregated from other rail traffic. They also usually have lower service frequency.

See also List of metro systems and List of light-rail transit systems.

Contents
1 Europe
2 Asia
3 North America
4 South America
5 Oceania
6 Notes

Europe

City Country Main article   Stations   Official link Other links
Belgrade Serbia Beovoz List ZTP Beograd (http://www.yurail.co.yu) [1] (http://www.beograd.org.yu/english/upoznaj/saobrac/beovoz/) [2] (http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/bel/beograd.htm)
Copenhagen    Denmark S-Train   S-Tog (http://www.dsb.dk/stog/)
Helsinki Finland VR lähiliikenne   VR lähiliikenne (http://www.vr.fi/heo/eng/lahi/lahi.htm)
Liverpool United Kingdom Merseyrail   Merseytravel (http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/info_train.html)
Paris France Réseau Express Régional1 List RATP (http://www.ratp.fr/)
Stockholm Sweden Pendeltåg SL (http://www.sl.se/)
Skåne County Sweden Pågatåg

Asia

City Country Main article Official link Other link
Hong Kong   Hong Kong KCRC [3] (http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/)
Mumbai   India Central Railway Western Railway [4] (http://www.urbanrail.net/as/mumb/mumbai.htm)
Tokyo   Japan JR East [5] (http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/)

North America

City Province/State Country Main article Official link Other link
Boston Massachusetts USA Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) [6] (http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_commuterrail.asp)
Chicago Illinois USA Metra [7] (http://www.metrarail.com)
Chicago Illinois USA Chicago South Shore Line [8] (http://www.nictd.com/)
Dallas/Fort Worth Texas USA Trinity Railway Express (TRE) [9] (http://www.trinityrailwayexpress.org/)
Los Angeles California USA Metrolink [10] (http://www.metrolinktrains.com/)
Miami/Fort Lauderdale/West Palm Beach Florida USA Tri-Rail [11] (http://www.tri-rail.com/)
Montreal Quebec Canada Trains de banlieue (AMT) [12] (http://www.www.amt.qc.ca/)
New Haven Connecticut USA Shore Line East [13] (http://www.shorelineeast.com/)
New Jersey – statewide New Jersey USA New Jersey Transit [14] (http://www.njtransit.com/)
New York – Long Island New York USA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) [15] (http://www.lirr.org/lirr/)
New York – northern suburbs & Conn. New York/Connecticut USA Metro-North Railroad [16] (http://www.mnr.org/mnr/)
Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA SEPTA Regional Rail [17] (http://www.septa.com/service/regional_rail/regional_rail_schedules.html)
San Diego California USA Coaster [18] (http://www.gonctd.com/coaster/coaster.html)
San Francisco/San Jose California USA Caltrain [19] (http://www.caltrain.com/)
San Jose California USA Altamont Commuter Express (ACE) [20] (http://www.acerail.com/)
Seattle Washington USA Sound Transit (Sounder) [21] (http://www.soundtransit.org/)
Syracuse New York USA OnTrack [22] (http://www.syracuseontrack.com/)
Toronto Ontario Canada GO Transit [23] (http://www.gotransit.com/)
Vancouver British Columbia Canada West Coast Express [24] (http://www.westcoastexpress.com/)
Washington – central Maryland/part of West Virginia District of Columbia USA Maryland Area Regional Commuter [25] (http://www.mtamaryland.com/)
Washington – northern Virginia District of Columbia USA Virginia Railway Express [26] (http://www.vre.org/)

South America

City Country Main article Official link Other link
Buenos Aires Argentina Buenos Aires railways
Rio de Janiero Brazil SuperVia [27] (http://www.supervia.com.br/)
Santiago Chile Metrotrén [28] (http://www.efe.cl/)
Sao Paulo Brazil Companhia Brasiliera de Trens Urbanos (CBTU) [29] (http://www.cbtu.gov.br/)

Oceania

City Country Main article Station list Official link Other link
Adelaide Australia Adelaide railways List Adelaide Metro (http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/)
Brisbane Australia Brisbane railways List Citytrain (http://www.citytrain.qr.com.au/passenger_services/passenger_services.asp?subsec=citytrain/citytrain.asp)
Melbourne Australia Melbourne railways1 List Metlink (http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/) Vicsig (http://www.vicsig.net/)
Perth Australia Perth railways List Transperth (http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/DesktopDefault.aspx)
Sydney Australia CityRail1 List Cityrail (http://www.cityrail.info/)
Wellington    New Zealand Tranz Metro Tranz Metro (http://www.tranzmetro.co.nz/tranzmetrowlg/default.aspx)

Notes

  1. Sydney, Melbourne and Paris (RER) have hybrid systems, with trains running as metro-like services (on segregated track – usually in tunnel – and with high frequency) in their inner cities, but as main line commuter services in the suburbs.
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