What is the most remote railway line in the world?

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This is a difficult metric. I’m not sure my answer will be the best, but I was on a regularly scheduled rail line in Baikanur that was very short - maybe 1500m. It was a passenger rail, it was not connected to another rail, and it is extremely difficult to gain passport/visa to visit Baikanur as a tourist. I don’t know if it even has a name but it requires payment and services employees and visitors. As a bonus, it certainly felt like I was further from anywhere I'd ever been before on Earth.

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How do you even prove something like this? Marrakech is 1083.12 km from Zouérat and both are on different railways. In the north, the railways connects to Tunisia but it ends at the Lybian border and it's more than 1400km from Gabes, Tunisia to Sallum, Egypt so the 1083.12 km is the shortest distance. Even the most remote northern railways in Finland and Russia are less than 500km from the next railway. The Panama Canal Railway where I can't figure out what's the closest other station, but there's the Puerto Berrío - Pavas - Medellín line and Puerto Berrío is only 630km away so it's much less.

This of course takes into consideration railway stations you could drive in between. Otherwise, New Zealand will win this, very easily as AFAIK the New Zealand network is a single one with the Interislander ferry and you'd need to cross the 2000km wide Tasman Sea to the next railway in Australia...

Edit: with the question changed and heritage/tourism railroads count, now if we find a single such in New Zealand unconnected then @bregalad 's find is better.

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I think the Train of the end of the world near the southern end of South America qualifies quite well. It's not connected to any other trains (the network of Argentina having been largely dismantled) and is in a very remote place. It is also the southernmost railway in the world.

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