List of railway test tracks

Railway test tracks include:

Tracks by country

Centre d'essais ferroviaires - Near Alstom Valenciennes factory site in Raismes, includes 2.75 km for testing at 100 km/h, a 1.85 km loop for endurance testing at 80 km/h, and a loop for testing driverless trains.

Test and validation centre, Wegberg-Wildenrath - Near Wildenrath in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Several loops of standard gauge and metre gauge track with various electrification systems.

Yamanashi test track - Maglev technology development for the future Chuo Shinkansen line.
Tōkaidō Shinkansen Model Line (ja:モデル線) - Tōkaidō Shinkansen test track, since 1962 to 1964. From Ayase, Kanagawa to near Kamonomiya Station (Odawara, Kanagawa). Long about 30Km. It was incorporated into the main line.
MIHARA Test Center - A railway test centre used by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to test rolling stock for conventional rail (including light rail transit), automated guideway transit (especially the Mitsubishi Crystal Mover) and maglev High Speed Surface Transport.[1]

Test Track Centre near Żmigród - Operated by Warsaw Railway Institute. 7.7 km standard gauge loop, 160 km/h maximum allowed speed

Railway Testing Center Faurei - Total length of lines: 20,2 km, maximum speed 200 km/h.

Integrated Train Testing Centre - to perform integrated systems testing for all new and existing MRT lines; due to open by end-2022 at Tuas[2]

Maglev - AMT Test Track – Powder Springs, Georgia
Transportation Technology Center, Inc. - operated by Association of American Railroads - Pueblo, Colorado[3]

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