In many cases, larger railways subsidized the conversion of connecting short-line railways to standard gauge.
However it has continued at a reduced level and remains the only large railway rolling stock repair and maintenance works in Scotland.
The company's philosophy has been to provide service that a large railway chooses not to provide.
In this light, it is hard to see a larger and more complicated orbital railway being approved.
Bord na Móna has one of the largest industrial railways in Europe.
It is the largest non-JR railway in Japan.
To extend its activity in Ireland it decided to purchase an interest in a large Irish railway.
By the 1930s, they boasted the largest private railway in the world with eight railway systems and 25 locomotives.
The purchase makes the combined company the third largest railway in Japan by revenue, and the second largest in the Kansai region.
The nearest large railway station is at Kysak.