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navigation, search  A railway company or railroad company is an
entity that operates a railroad track or trains. Such a company
can either be private or public. Some railway companies operate
both the trains and the track, while particularly in European
Union ownership of track and train operation is separated in
different companies.   Many countries have a national railway
company that owns all track and operates all trains in the
country, for instance the Russian Railways (the world's largest
rail company by network size). Other countries have many
different, sometimes competing, railway companies that operate
each their own lines, particularly in the United States and
Canada.  In Europe, the EU requires its members to split the
railway companies into a number of different companies. Usually
public owned companies own the track and other public companies
(sometimes owned by regional governments) own the train cars.
Public service obligations or