Fans of detailed train maps will dig this....

http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/index.php?gpslat=5...

London metro carte

Every railway line that ever existed in the UK!
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=reykjavik&ll=64.141916,-21.926987&spn...

That's the capital of Iceland. Andre-ville

http://www.railmaponline.com/UKIEMap.php

Bugger. Guess what I was looking at in my lunchbreak and still had on my clipboard. ;)

Just as well it wasn't something embarrasing, like the Take That forum or the UKIP FB page! ;)

If you like coloured buildings Tórshavn is better than Reykjavík imo

Also extremely hard to get to. I went to Tromsø in August this year. That had nice Balamory type houses too.

The Smyril line ferry no longer visits the UK, but they still go from Faroe to Iceland. Twin centre holiday? I'd always planned to drive.

See below for a detailed map of Iceland's railways.

There can't be many countries without railways. Nepal is the only other one that springs to mind.

Reykjavik had a few rail lines along the harbour to take cargo up and down, but it doesn't any more. And if these could be called "railways" is debatable.

It always felt very wrong to be in a country without railways when I've been to Iceland, I can't put my finger on why.

No chance of wrong kind of snow on the line or frozen points in Iceland then

Icelandic trainspotters must be frustrated. Would be nice to have at least one line going East to West but Seydisfyodir is quite a small port town

Abkhazia
Afghanistan
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Ã…land
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Armenia
Aruba
Ascension Island
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bermuda
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
Cayman Islands
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Cook Islands
Cyprus
East Timor
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
French Polynesia
Georgia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Guernsey
Iceland
Jersey
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Macao
Macedonia, Republic of
Maldives
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mayotte
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Montserrat
Myanmar
Nagorno-Karabakh
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Palau
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Qatar
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Saint-Barthélemy
Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Samoa
San Marino
Solomon Islands
Somaliland
South Ossetia
Svalbard
Syria
Tajikistan
Tokelau
Tonga
Transnistria
Tristan da Cunha
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Vietnam
Virgin Islands, British
Virgin Islands, United States
Wallis and Futuna

Apparently none of these places have railways.

add peoples republic of Chesterton to that list (well for a year or two)!

Icelanders claim that the reason that they don't have railway lines is because of frequent earthquakes and extremely difficult terrain.

They do tend to really like cars though. Reykjavik has only the population of Cambridge but has about the same land area of Birmingham because all the different bits are liked by multilane freeways.

Despite only having a population of 600, Seydisfyodir boasts an award winning museum. I think being able to get a train there would be very good. :)

I think it would be more sensible to make a train line to Akeyuri in the north though.

Wasn't there a Marsupial Railway between Fjordsonton and Bjorksville in the 1930's

some problem here:
Syria, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Cambodia. Vietnam all have railways (Kuwait's is a Metro)

Turkmenistan has over 3000 miles of railways.

Latvia, Monetenegro, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan have railways. I'm pretty sure Armenia does too.

Turkmenistan

Bahrain is to have a monorail :D

I heard parts of the Iceland's road network need rebuilding every year or two because of the temperature changes and seismic activity. Maybe that's why they haven't built any rail network or there just haven't been the population and trade to make it worthwhile.

Not surprised most of the old Soviet republics have railways. I'm pretty sure there are tracks in North Korea too, and not just Pyongyang

There is a quite large rail network in North Korea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_North_Korea

I bet that the trains all run exactly on time too, because the directors are probably all be under threat of being shot (or worse) if the network is not as efficient as it should be.

Many roads in Iceland (in the lesser populated north and east) are just gravel tracks, even Route 1 isn't tarmaced all the way round. As fs says there just isn't the population to justify making them for the whole country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_Presidential_Trains
Wow.

When I lived in London in the 1980's I had a railway line at the end of my garden. I can just about remember the British Royal Train going past on a number of occasions. It looked dead posh. I am guessing that this has now been abolished and the Queen just drives or gets the helicopter instead.

That list is a load of old cock. Tashkent in Uzbekistan has a Metro, and very palatial it looks too!

On the Chesterton Republic front, everytime i go past the site of the new station, on the train it always looks dormant. when are they actually gonna start construction?

Bahrain is to have a monorail :D. So is Cambridge according to some rumours!

Chesterton Station has (only just this week) secured funding. They plan to have the station operational by May 2016, so I would guess construction is going to start early next year.

From that list, Monaco may not have its own railway but it does have an SNCF station on the Marseille–Ventimiglia line. Unsurprisingly it's quite plush.

add Burma Railways (aka Myanmar Railways)