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Communications
Railroads: Great Britain--16,629 km total; British Railways
(BR) operates 16,629 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (4,205 km
electrified and 12,591 km double or multiple track); several
additional small standard-gauge and narrow-gauge lines are
privately owned and operated; Northern Ireland Railways (NIR)
operates 332 km 1.600-meter gauge, 190 km double track.
Highways: UK, 362,982 km total; Great Britain, 339,483 km
paved (including 2,573 km limited-access divided highway);
Northern Ireland, 23,499 km (22,907 paved, 592 km gravel).
Inland waterways: 2,291 total; British Waterways Board, 606 km;
Port Authorities, 706 km; other, 979 km.
Pipelines: 933 km crude oil, almost all insignificant; 2,993 km
refined products; 12,800 km natural gas.
Ports: London, Liverpool, Felixstowe, Tees and Hartlepool,
Dover, Sullom Voe, Southampton.
Merchant marine: 285 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
6,174,142GRT/9,024,090 DWT; includes 7 passenger, 22 short-sea
passenger, 44 cargo, 44 container, 21 roll-on/roll-off cargo,
9 refrigerated cargo, 1 vehicle carrier, 1 railcar carrier,
78 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 4 chemical
tanker, 5 liquefied gas, 2 combination ore/oil, 1 specialized
tanker, 45 bulk, 1 combination bulk.
Civil air: 618 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 522 total, 379 usable; 245 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 37 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
132 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: modern, efficient domestic and international
system; 30,200,000 telephones; excellent countrywide broadcast
systems; stations--223 AM, 165 (396 relays) FM, 205 (3,210
relays) TV; 38 coaxial submarine cables; communication satellite
earth stations operating in INTELSAT (7 Atlantic Ocean and
3 Indian Ocean), MARISAT, and EUTELSAT systems.