List of suburban and commuter rail systems
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This is an alphabetical listing of cities and countries that have commuter or suburban railways that are currently operational and in service. Commuter and suburban rail systems are train services that connect city centres with outer suburbs or nearby cities, with most passengers traveling for work or school. Unlike metros or light rail these systems usually operate on main line tracks unsegregated from other rail traffic. They differ from regional rail in that they usually have a hub-and-spoke paradigm and are focused on moving large number of passengers to a central business district.
Africa
Asia
| Country | City or area | Name | External link |
Lines | Stations | Length (km) |
Daily ridership | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Flag | Baku | Baku suburban railway | Azerbaijan Railways Official Site | 2 | 15 | 91 | 30,300 | |
| Template:Flag | Beijing | Beijing Suburban Railway | 4 | 22 | 364.7 | |||
| Changsha | Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan intercity railway | 1 | 21 | 97.6 | ||||
| Chengdu | Chengdu Commuter Rail | 2 | 33 | 194.3 | ||||
| Guiyang | Guiyang railway loop line | 1 | 17 | 113 | ||||
| Haikou | Haikou Suburban Rail | 1 | 7 | 51.4 | ||||
| Lanzhou | Lanzhou–Zhongchuan Airport intercity railway | 1 | 6 | 61 | ||||
| Ningbo | Ningbo Suburban Railway | 1 | 3 | 48.7 | ||||
| Pearl River Delta | Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region intercity railway | 7 | 80<ref group="Note">Not including the 25 stations of the Guangfo Metro.</ref> | 379.034<ref group="Note">The 39.6 km Guangfo Metro is not included.</ref> | ||||
| Shanghai | Shanghai Suburban Railway | 2 | 15 | 114.978 | ||||
| Shaoxing | Shaoxing Tourism New Transit railway | 1 | 5 | 80.2 | ||||
| Taizhou | Taizhou Urban Train | 2 | 5 | 104.338 | ||||
| Template:Flag<ref group="Note">A "special administrative region" of the People's Republic of China since 1997.</ref> | Hong Kong | MTR<ref group="Note">In the MTR system, East Rail line, Tuen Ma line, and Tung Chung line are classified as suburban railways. The rest of the system mostly provide metro services.</ref> | MTR | 5 | 58 | 119.7 | 1,877,400 | |
| Template:Flag | Chennai | Chennai Suburban Railway | 8 | 300 | 1,174.21 | 1,500,000 | ||
| Lucknow - Kanpur | Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway | 2 | 16 | 72 | 80,000 | |||
| Delhi | Delhi Suburban Railway | 35 | 3,700 | |||||
| Hyderabad | Hyderabad MMTS | 3 | 29 | 50 | 220,000 | |||
| Kolkata | Kolkata Suburban Railway | Eastern Railway | 24 | 458 | 1501 | 6,100,000 | ||
| Pune | Pune Suburban Railway | 2 | 29 | 64 | 100,000 | |||
| Mumbai | Mumbai Suburban Railway | Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation | 5 | 140 | 465 | 7,585,000 | ||
| Template:Flag | Jakarta (Greater Jakarta)<ref group="Note">Include regency of Lebak, Karawang, and Purwakarta.</ref> | KRL Commuterline | KAI Commuter Template:Webarchive | 5 | 80 | 293.4 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Soekarno–Hatta Airport Rail Link | Railink | 1 | 5 | 54.3 | 4,100<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |||
| Merak Commuter Line | 1 | 13 | 68.5 | |||||
| Template:Ill | 1 | 8 | 41 | |||||
| Jatiluhur & Walahar Commuter Line | 1 | 10 | 60 | |||||
| Bandung (Greater Bandung) | Greater Bandung Commuter Line | KAI Commuter Template:Webarchive | 1 | 14 | 42 | 75,070 | ||
| Garut Commuter Line | 1 | 33 | ||||||
| Semarang (Greater Semarang) | Kedungsepur | 1 | 8 | 60 | ||||
| Surabaya (Greater Surabaya) | Greater Surabaya Commuter Line | KAI Commuter Template:Webarchive | 8 | 52,502 | ||||
| Medan (Greater Medan) | Sri Lelawangsa | 1 | 7 | 21 | 15,586 | |||
| Kualanamu Airport Rail Link | Railink | 1 | 2 | 40 | ||||
| Padang (Greater Padang) | Minangkabau Express | 1 | 8 | 23 | ||||
| Yogyakarta–Surakarta | Adisumarmo Airport Rail Link | 1 | 5 | 13.5 | ||||
| Prambanan Express | 1 | 5 | 64 | |||||
| Yogyakarta International Airport Rail Link | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| KRL Commuterline Yogyakarta–Solo | 1 | 13 | 65.4 | 29,744 | ||||
| Template:Flag | Tehran | Tehran Metro Line 5 | Urban & Suburban Railway Operation Co | 1 | 11 | 41.5 | ||
| Template:Flag | Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Beersheba |
Israel Railways | Israel Railways | 11 | 69 | 1221 | 225,000 | |
| Template:Flag | Fukui | Echizen Railway | JP | 2 | 44 | 53 | ||
| Fukuoka-Kitakyushu | JR Kyushu<ref>Defined here as the SUGOCA coverage area (as of 2012.04.01), together with the Gotōji Line and the Jōno ‒ Tagawa-Gotōji section of the Hita-Hikosan Line. In comparison to the tabulation here, JR Kyūshū's Template:Nihongo as defined for fare-calculation purposes includes the Haruda ‒ Keisen section of the Chikuhō Main Line and the Tagawa-Gotōji ‒ Imayama section of the Hita-Hikosan Line, but excludes the Kagoshima Main Line south of Tosu; the Nagasaki Main Line; the Chikuhi Line / Karatsu Line; the Nippō Main Line south of Yukuhashi; and the Moji ‒ Shimonoseki section of the San'yō Main Line.</ref> | JA EN | 11 | 175 | 464.3 | |||
| Nishi-Nippon Railroad (Nishitetsu) | JA EN | 4 | 72 | 106.1 | 542,994 | |||
| Amagi Railway | JA | 1 | 11 | 13.7 | 3,700 | |||
| Heisei Chikuhō Railway | 3 | 35 | 49.2 | |||||
| Hiroshima | JR West<ref>Defined here as the ICOCA coverage area Template:Webarchive in the Hiroshima area. The tabulation shown here roughly correlates to JR West’s Template:Nihongo, but includes the Hiro ‒ Mihara section of the Kure Line and the Shiraichi ‒ Itozaki section of the San'yō Main Line.</ref> | 4 | 76 | 247.8 | ||||
| Kanazawa | Hokuriku Railroad (Hokutetsu)<ref group="Note">Most of this company's once-extensive rail lines have closed, and this company now primarily functions as a bus operator on its former railway routes.</ref> | JP | 2 | 29 | 20.6 | |||
| Matsuyama | Iyotetsu | JP | 3<ref group="Note">The Takahama Line and the Yokogawara Line now operate as a single line, which means that a train goes directly from Takahama Station to Yokogawara Station via Matsuyama City Station, yet they're still counted as two separate lines.</ref> | 35 | 33.9 | |||
| Nagano | Nagano Electric Railway (Nagaden) | JP | 1 | 24 | 33.2 | |||
| Nagoya (Chūkyō Area) | JR Central<ref>Defined here as the TOICA coverage area (as of 2012.05.30), together with the Sekigahara ‒ Maibara and Ōgaki ‒ Mino-Akasaka sections of the Tōkaidō Main Line; the Yokkaichi ‒ Kameyama section of the Kansai Main Line; the Kameyama ‒ Taki section of the Kisei Main Line; the Sangū Line; and the Toyokawa ‒ Hon-Nagashino section of the Iida Line. Unlike Greater Tokyo and Osaka‒Kobe‒Kyoto, JR Central has no Template:Nihongo defined for the Greater Nagoya area for fare calculation purposes, and the TOICA coverage area is limited, with some trains continuing beyond the boundaries of the current coverage area.</ref> | JA EN | 10 | 138 | 465.2 | |||
| Aichi Loop Line (Aikan) | JA | 1 | 23 | 45.3 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Johoku Line (TKJ) | JA | 1 | 6 | 11.2 | 1,384 | |||
| Kinki Nippon Electric Railway (Kintetsu)<ref group="Note">Only Nagoya Line and its branches, and Yamada/Toba/Shima Line</ref> | JA EN | 6 | 89 | 168.4 | ||||
| Nagoya Railroad (Meitetsu) | JA EN+map Template:Webarchive | 20 | 275 | 443.8 | ||||
| Nagoya Seaside Rapid Railway (Aonami Line) | JA+map | 1 | 11 | 15.2 | 43,888 | |||
| Sangi Railway | JA | 2 | 29 | 48 | ||||
| Toyohashi Railroad (Toyotetsu) | JA | 1<ref group="Note">Only the Atsumi Line is a commuter railway, the other line that Toyotetsu operates, the Azumada Main Line, is a tram line.</ref> | 16 | 18 | ||||
| Niigata | JR East<ref>Defined here as the Suica coverage area (as of 2012.05.31) in the Niigata area, omitting the Jōetsu Shinkansen. The Suica coverage area is identical in scope to JR East's Template:Nihongo</ref> | 6 | 58 | 177.9 | ||||
| Okayama-Kurashiki | JR West<ref>Defined here as the ICOCA coverage area Template:Webarchive (as of 2012.05.31) in the Okayama area, together with the Wake ‒ Aioi section of the San'yō Main Line; the Osafune ‒ Banshū Akō section of the Akō Line; the Chayamachi ‒ Uno section of the Uno Line; the Hōkaiin ‒ Tsuyama section of the Tsuyama Line; the Bitchū-Takahashi ‒ Niimi section of the Hakubi Line; and the Kannabe ‒ Fuchū section of the Fukuen Line; and omitting the section of the Seto Ōhashi Line south of Kojima. JR West has no Template:Nihongo defined for the Okayama area for fare calculation purposes, and the ICOCA coverage area is limited, with most trains continuing beyond the boundaries of the current coverage area.</ref> | 8 | 117 | 417.5 | ||||
| Mizushima Rinkai Railway | JP | 1 | 10 | 11.2 | ||||
| Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Keihanshin Area) |
JR West Urban Network<ref>Defined here as the union of JR West’s Template:Nihongo (as of 2012.03.17) and the Template:Nihongo for fare calculation purposes, omitting Shinkansen sections. The Urban Network is mostly identical to the Osaka Suburban Area, but omits the Kakogawa Line; the Sasayamaguchi – Tanikawa section of the Fukuchiyama Line; the Maibara – Shin-Ōsaka section of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen; and the Nishi-Akashi – Aioi section of the Sanyō Shinkansen. The Urban Network also includes the Ōmi-Shiotsu – Tsuruga section of the Hokuriku Main Line and the Himeji – Kamigōri section of the San'yō Main Line, which are not included in the Osaka Suburban Area.</ref> | JA EN | 25 | 361 | 985.7 | |||
| Hankyu Railway | JA EN+map | 9 | 91 | 136 | 1,950,000 | |||
| Hanshin Electric Railway | JA EN | 3 | 46 | 43.9 | ||||
| Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway | JA | 1 | 2 | 7.5 | ||||
| Keihan Electric Railway | JA EN | 7 | 88 | 90.7 | ||||
| Kinki Nippon Electric Railway (Kintetsu)<ref group="Note">Except Nagoya Line and its branches, and Yamada/Toba/Shima Line</ref> | JA EN | 15 | 185 | 302.5 | ||||
| Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway (Kitakyu) | JA+map EN+map | 1 | 4 | 5.9 | ||||
| Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu) | JA | 4 | 46 | 69.2 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Kobe Rapid Railway<ref group="Note">The company itself does not own any rolling stocks, instead it provides through service for 4 other railway companies (Shintetsu, Hanshin, Hankyu, and Sanyo) into Kobe city center.</ref> | JA | 2 | 11 | 7.6 | ||||
| Nankai Electric Railway | JA | 8 | 99 | 157.9 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Nose Electric Railway | JA | 2 | 15 | 14.8 | ||||
| Sanyo Electric Railway | JA | 2 | 49 | 63.2 | ||||
| Sapporo | JR Hokkaido<ref>Defined here as JR Hokkaidō’s Sapporo area network (as of 2025.07.10).</ref> | JA EN | 3 | 55 | 168.7 | |||
| Sendai | JR East<ref>Defined here as the Suica coverage area (as of 2019.03.13) in the Sendai area, omitting the Tōhoku Main Line south of Fukushima Station and the Tōhoku Shinkansen.</ref> | JA EN | 5 | 86 | 252 | |||
| Sendai Airport Transit | JP | 1 | 4 | 7.1 | 6,670 | |||
| Shizuoka-Hamamatsu | JR Central<ref>Defined here as the TOICA coverage area (as of 2019.03.13) east of Toyohashi, together with the Kannami ‒ Atami section of the Tōkaidō Main Line, the Nishi-Fujinomiya ‒ Shibakawa section of the Minobu Line, and the Shimo-soga - Kōzu section of the Gotemba Line. JR Central has no Template:Nihongo defined for the Shizuoka‒Hamamatsu area for fare calculation purposes, and the TOICA coverage area is limited, with many trains continuing beyond the boundaries of the current coverage area.</ref> | 3 | 70 | 268.4 | ||||
| Takamatsu | Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railroad | JA | 3 | 52 | 60 | |||
| Tokyo (Greater Tokyo Area) | JR East<ref>Defined here as JR East's Template:Nihongo for fare-calculation purposes, and roughly correlating with the Suica coverage area (as of 2012.03.17). However, Suica coverage does not extend to the Karasuyama Line, Kashima Line, and Kururi Line, which are considered part of the Tokyo Suburban Area.</ref> | JA EN | 43 | 623 | 2282.8 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Hakone Tozan Line<ref group="Note">As the name "Tozan", or "mountain-climbing", indicates, this line is a primary scenic railway for the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park uphill. However, Odakyu commuter trains operate on the section from Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto, thus only this section should be considered as commuter rail.</ref> | JA | 1 | 11<ref group="Note">5, if only the section from Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto is counted.</ref> | 15<ref group="Note">6.1, if only the section from Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto is counted.</ref> | ||||
| Hokuso Railway | JA EN | 1 | 15 | 32.3 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Izuhakone Railway | JA | 1<ref group="Note">The Daiyūzan Line serves Odawara, a city inside the Greater Tokyo; the other line Sunzu Line serves Mishima, which is outside Greater Tokyo.</ref> | 12 | 9.6 | ||||
| Kanto Railway | JA | 2 | 28 | 55.6 | ||||
| Keihin Electric Express Railway (Keikyu) | JA EN | 5 | 77 | 87 | 1,316,499<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
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69<ref name="keio"/> | 88.3 | 1,851,364<ref name="Train-Media"/> | ||
| Keisei Electric Railway | JA EN | 6 | 69 | 152.8 | 786,063<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
| Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company (Tsukuba Express) | JA EN | 1 | 20 | 58.3 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Nagareyama Line (Ryūden) | JA | 1 | 6 | 5.7 | ||||
| Odakyu Electric Railway | JA EN | 3 | 80 | 120.5 | 2,069,383<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
| Sagami Railway (Sotetsu) | JA EN | 2 | 28 | 35.9 | 634,899<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
| Saitama Railway | JA EN+map | 1 | 8 | 14.6 | ||||
| Seibu Railway | JA EN | 12 | 92 | 176.6 | 1,804,521<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
| Tobu Railway | JA EN | 13 | 204 | 463.3 | 2,522,067<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
| Tokyu Corporation | JA EN | 7<ref group="Note">Tokyu corporation owns 8 lines in total, but the Setagaya Line is not included here since it is classified as a light rail line; Tokyu also operates Kodomonokuni Line, which is owned by Yokohama Minatomirai Railway</ref> | 86 | 100.3 | 3,171,660<ref name="Train-Media"/> | |||
| Toyo Rapid Railway | JA EN | 1 | 9 | 16.2 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Toyama | Toyama Chihō Railway (Chitetsu) | JA | 3<ref group="Note">The Fujikoshi Line and the Kamidaki Line now operate as one line.</ref> | 66 | 93.2 | |||
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| Template:Flag | Greater Kuala Lumpur | KTM Komuter | KTM Berhad | 3 | 56 | 269 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Express Rail Link | KLIA Ekspres | 2 | 5 | 57 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Greater Kota Kinabalu | Western Sabah Railway Line | Sabah State Railway Berhad | 1 | 15 | 134 | |||
| Greater Penang | KTM Komuter Northern Sector | KTM Berhad | 2 | 20 | 272 | |||
| Template:Flag | Yangon | Yangon Circular Railway | <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> | 1 | 39 | 45.9 | 100,000-150,000 | |
| Template:Flag | Manila | Philippine National Railways Metro Commuter Line | PNR Template:Webarchive | 1 | 32 | 75.7 | 100,000 | |
| Naga, Legazpi | Philippine National Railways Bicol Commuter | PNR Template:Webarchive | 1 | |||||
| Template:Flag | Seoul Capital Area | AREX | KO | 1 | 14 | 63.8 | 182,343 | |
| Great Train eXpress | KO | 1 | 9 | 81.1 | ||||
| Korail | KO EN | 8 | 260 | 591.4 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Busan | Korail Donghae Line<ref group="Note">Only the urban section between Bujeon station and Taehwagang station</ref> | EN | 1 | 23 | 65.7 | 51,097 | ||
| Template:Flag | Colombo | Sri Lanka Railways | [3] | 18 | 201 | 1,436 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Template:Flag | Greater Taipei-Taoyuan-Hsinchu | Taiwan Railway Administration | TRA | 4 | ||||
| Taichung | Taiwan Railway Administration | TRA | 2 | |||||
| Tainan-Kaohsiung | Taiwan Railway Administration | TRA | 1 | |||||
| Template:Flag | Bangkok (Bangkok Metropolitan Region) | Greater Bangkok Commuter rail | State Railway of Thailand | 5 | 21 | 623 | ||
| SRT Red Lines | 2 | 11 | 41.26 | |||||
| Airport Rail Link | Airport Rail Link | 1 | 7 | 28.6 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Template:Flag | Adapazarı | Adaray | 1 | 7 | 8.4 | |||
| Ankara | Başkentray | [4] | 1 | 26 | 37 | |||
| Istanbul | Marmaray | Marmaray Template:Webarchive | 1 | 43 | 76.6 | 148,034 | ||
| İzmir | İZBAN | [5] | 2 | 41 | 136 | 185,000 | ||
| Gaziantep | Gaziray | [6] | 1 | 16 | 25.5 |
Europe
North America
Oceania
| Country | City or area | Name | External link |
Lines | Stations | Length (km) |
Daily ridership | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Flag | Adelaide | Railways in Adelaide | Adelaide Metro | 6 | 89 | 132 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| South East Queensland | Railways in South East Queensland | Queensland Rail | 12 | 153 | 689 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Melbourne | Metro Trains Melbourne{{#if:1|1|[17]}} | Metro Trains Melbourne Public Transport Victoria Vicsig | 17 | 221 | 1047 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Perth | Transperth | Transperth | 7 | 74 | 253 | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | ||
| Sydney | Sydney Trains{{#if:1|1|[18]}} | Sydney Trains | 8 | 170 | 813 | citation | CitationClass=web
}}</ref> | ||
| Template:Flag | Auckland | AT Metro | Auckland Transport | 4 | 40 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Auckland-Hamilton | Te Huia | Te Huia | 1 | 6 | 138.37 | ||||
| Wellington | Metlink | Metlink | 5 | 48 | 154 | 30,000 | |||
| Capital Connection | Capital Connection | 1 | 5 | 136 |
South America
See also
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- Lists of urban rail transit systems
- List of rail transit systems in the United States
- Regional rail
- S-Bahn
- List of airport people mover systems
- List of funicular railways
- List of trolleybus systems
- List of bus rapid transit systems
- List of premetro systems
Notes
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