All trains in Liechtenstein are international (in fact, they all serve at least three countries).
Are there any other countries with regular passenger train services where all trains are international?
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6Hmm, are we counting any kind of train or is urban mass transit/light rail excluded? If it's the latter, I think Singapore qualifies.– Zach LiptonDec 17, 2016 at 22:23
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@ZachLipton Do you mean that the only metro/light rail in Singapore leaves the country?– gerritDec 17, 2016 at 22:35
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Exactly. I mean that I think Singapore has only international trains if you aren't counting mass transit. If urban mass transit does count, it has an extensive domestic network and so would not qualify.– Zach LiptonDec 18, 2016 at 0:17
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What about Laos and Transnistria?– achDec 18, 2016 at 19:11
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@AndreyChernyakhovskiy Both seem to work (although of course Transnistria has a disputed states), you can add it as an answer! :)– gerritDec 18, 2016 at 19:14
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6Apparently, all trains servicing it are heading from or to Italy, so it's also at least three countries. And it's serviced by one train serving no less than 8 countries! (Monaco - Nice - Milan - Innsbruck - Vienna - Warsaw - Minsk - Moscow)– gerritDec 17, 2016 at 21:59
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2Nice. The other European micro-states don't qualify: Andorra has no railway station at all. Luxembourg does have domestic trains. Vatican seems to be unclear. Dec 18, 2016 at 4:08
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@IanF1 They are, but the train passes through Czechia en-route from Warsaw to Vienna. Poland and Austria do not share a border.– gerritDec 18, 2016 at 18:33
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Monaco (another European city-state) has only one train station.
Vatican City also has only one train station. A tourist train serviced it weekly from Italy in 2015, but it is not clear if it is still running.
answered Dec 17, 2016 at 21:59
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Vatican City is not serviced by regular passenger trains, though. By "regular train traffic" I meant "regular passenger train traffic"; I should have clarified but for a travel site it should be expected this is what I meant. Monaco is good but pnuts was a couple of minutes faster (sorry).– gerritDec 17, 2016 at 22:00
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1Interesting, you should add that to your answer (I didn't know and it didn't exist last time I read the Wikipedia article)– gerritDec 17, 2016 at 22:06
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1I wouldn't rely too much on Wikipedia here... The Trenitalia website does not know either Stazione Città del Vaticano nor Stazione Vaticana. (Nor does the Swiss railyway site, which I, ahem, trust a tiny little bit more.) Dec 18, 2016 at 4:10
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@StephanKolassa The Swiss railway website relies on HAFAS, and thus on Italian or Vatican authorities adding things to HAFAS. For example, in Spain it is quite incomplete, but that is not the Swiss fault. It is possible that a weekly tourist train exists but is not listed in HAFAS and not included in standard booking services (certainly museum trains aren't).– gerritDec 18, 2016 at 11:56
At time of writing -- but not for much longer -- the railway network in Laos consists of a single station, Thanaleng (near the capital Vientiane), which has passenger services only across the Mekong river to Nong Khai, Thailand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanaleng_railway_station
However, in 2021 the Vientiane-Boten link across the country to China is scheduled to open, and this will have a number of domestic stations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vientiane%E2%80%93Boten_railway
answered May 12, 2019 at 0:07
Actually all trains in Liechtenstein are Austrian (since 1872) , with locomotive / conductor change in Buch, Switzerland.
In 1970, the passport control was done (for Switzerland) by a Liechtenstein police officer who got on the train in Buch and off at the first Austrian station Feldkirch without stopping.
On request my passport was stamped with a Liechtenstein stamp.
answered May 11, 2019 at 11:47
Since early 2018, there is passenger train service between Ethiopia and Djibouti. It appears that all trains go from Addis Ababa to Djibouti City, so all trains in both countries are effectively international trains.
However, there are at least two passenger stops in each country, so it is also possible to take this train domestically; I'm not sure whether this counts under the criteria of the question. Moreover, there are other passenger lines under construction in Ethiopia, and once these are completed and begin passenger service, there will be both domestic and international passenger trains in Ethiopia.
answered May 12, 2019 at 1:56
