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The Inquisition has a railway length of about 450,000 km, linking all mainland dioceses, including steppes and rainforests; many island dioceses also have local railway systems. About 95% of the network uses the standard Chlouvānem gauge (1pā 1.2, ~1,472 mm — usually called ''leileidani ga khlatimas'' “one-one-two gauge”), but narrower gauges are used for local mountainous lines and, in some cities, for light metro lines, especially in some networks which have very narrow turns (as in the Pamahīnėna Subway). Some local lines in the North still use the Skyrdagor gauge of 1pā 1.1 (~1,385 mm), even though adaptation to the Chlouvānem gauge has often been proposed - also because many countries in Greater Skyrdagor are changing their lines to Chlouvānem gauge too. Fixed block signalling is used in most of the network, but a few suburban lines near Līlasuṃghāṇa and the Cami Coastal Loop use moving block signalling, as do also many subway lines in Līlasuṃghāṇa, Ilėnimarta, Galiākina, Cami, Lūlunimarta, Huñeibāma, and Līlekhaitė.<br/>Most of the network is nationalized, managed by local branches of the ''Mutada'' (''murkadhānāvīyi tammilīltumi darañcamūh'', "Inquisitorial Railway Group", also called ''mutacamūh''), but there are some local lines, especially when part of subway networks, which are privately managed.

Railway lines are common even in rural areas, with in fact most settlements being located near railways, and rail lines being the most common means of passenger transport overall. Railway stations are also major meeting points in cities and towns, usually lying in a major square; in small towns they’re often surrounded by the main services like bars, post offices, banks, and a few shops; the most important stations in large cities are true shopping malls or even multifunctional buildings with offices and hotels: the stations of Cami-Tautehana and Līlasuṃghāṇa-Kahėrimaila are the 2nd and 3rd largest public buildings<ref>The largest buildings in the Inquisition are aircraft and spacecraft building halls, with the Construction Hall at the Dīlthutalāki Cosmodrome being the largest one (and second-largest on the planet).</ref> in the Inquisition (after the Main Terminal of Mamaikala International Airport).~~<br/>~~Train services range from those of suburban importance to high-speed, often overnight, links between cities; a few major cities are linked by high-speed maglev lines that in a few cases may operate at speeds up to 700 km/h; the following types of trains are found on Chlouvānem railways, excluding commuter rail systems:

Railway lines are common even in rural areas, with in fact most settlements being located near railways, and rail lines being the most common means of passenger transport overall. Railway stations are also major meeting points in cities and towns, usually lying in a major square; in small towns they’re often surrounded by the main services like bars, post offices, banks, and a few shops; the most important stations in large cities are true shopping malls or even multifunctional buildings with offices and hotels: the stations of Cami-Tautehana and Līlasuṃghāṇa-Kahėrimaila are the 2nd and 3rd largest public buildings<ref>The largest buildings in the Inquisition are aircraft and spacecraft building halls, with the Construction Hall at the Dīlthutalāki Cosmodrome being the largest one (and second-largest on the planet).</ref> in the Inquisition (after the Main Terminal of Mamaikala International Airport).

=====Train services=====

Train services range from those of suburban importance to high-speed, often overnight, links between cities; a few major cities are linked by high-speed maglev lines that in a few cases may operate at speeds up to 700 km/h; the following types of trains are found on Chlouvānem railways, excluding commuter rail systems:

* Local trains (''nīyutiūkirena tammeyai''), which typically stop at every station between two termini (though some minor stations may only be served in some parts of the day, on some days only, or even seasonally; in rural areas there are a few halts where trains only stop at request). The termini of local trains are usually administrative seats of circuits or episcopal seats. All rural railway lines in the Inquisition have local train services.

* Fast local trains (''kimæh nīyutiūkirena tammeyai''), which operate mostly on rural lines but, unlike local trains, usually skip the smallest stations: in most areas, this means that only settlements with more than 6,000 people are served. Anyway, fast local trains are usually limited to the peak hours in the morning and in the evening, with possibly one around lunchtime.

* Interurban trains (''galamartausirena tammeyai''), which are inter-city trains which link more cities of regional importance. In most areas of the densely populated Lāmiejāya-Lāmberah plain, interurban trains typically follow routes parallel to the main high speed lines and are shorter and stop at more stations that interurban trains in other areas of the country, resembling more fast local trains. Local trains in those areas are in fact often shorter shuttle services between a few major towns (which still do often have quite sizable populations compared to other "rural" towns elsewhere) outside the major metro areas.

* Express trains (''phūmitammeyai'', lit. "shot trains") are a category of fast trains that operate between major cities not served by high-speed railway lines. Some Express trains also run on high-speed lines in some areas. Express trains are sometimes named, as in the iconic ''Samvāldīlthiphūmas'', the express train between Nyamukuma and Spėrunīnema, with its 1500 km long crossing of the deserts in Samvālšaṇṭrė.

* Night express trains (''lalei phūmitammeyai'') are trains that operate on normal and high-speed lines during the night, providing sleeping accomodation. These trains are still very common in ~~many areas of~~ the Inquisition.

* Night express trains (''lalei phūmitammeyai'') are trains that operate on normal and high-speed lines during the night, providing sleeping accomodation. These trains are still very common in the Inquisition, as many people prefer nighttime trains to daytime air travel, citing time optimization as a factor.

* International trains (''galabhælausirena tammeyai'') are express trains that connect cities of the Inquisition with foreign ones. They mainly depart from the cities of Kuma Nīmāliša, Kimbahėši, and Kuratugombė in the West; Tohailena and Mālim in the Northwest, and Måmatempuñih, Kateihaneh, Hålša, and Pethaṣāvīh in the Northeast, reaching most neighboring countries. The most travelled daily international routes are Mālim-iQaasuringaat (iKalurilut) and Måmatempuñih-Foamipaha (Brono), in addition to the ''Karinaktei phūmas'' linking every three days the Northern Chlouvānem city of Hålša to Tol Szyptag, the second-largest city of Karynaktja, passing through the whole country of Tulfasysz.

* ''Kimatāye'' or, officially, high-speed trains (''lalla kemāmitini tammeyai'' — ''kimatai'' is actually the name of the line, not of the service, even if that's how it is colloquially known as), which link major cities at speeds usually exceeding 320 vyā-g (vyāṣojrai per Chlouvānem hour) (about 325 km/h).

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Freight transport is also dominated by railways, giving rise to large freight depots even inside cities, even though they have often been closed, converted to public parks, and rebuilt outside the city as city growth circled them (this has happened most notably in Līlasuṃghāṇa, Ilėnimarta, and Līlikanāna, but not for example in Līlta which still has a mid-sized freight depot close to the city center).

=====Types of cars=====

Trains in the Inquisition consist of five different types of passenger cars, each one having its own fare.

Three types of cars are general daytime passenger cars:

* '''Class 2''' (''dani ga vaita'') cars are found on local, fast local, and (in most of the Plain only) interurban trains, as well as in suburban lines around many cities (including actually suburban lines counted as part of the Līlasuṃghāṇa Subway) and are the cheapest everywhere, not requiring any additional fee ticket - they have basic seats, cushioned but stiff; every row has six or four seats depending on train model and newer trains have two power outlets per row. In all trains where they are found, today there is no other class - in the past, however, it was common for interurban trains to have one or two significantly cheaper class 2 coaches and many more class 1 ones - today, all interurban trains outside of the Plain are fully class 1, while in the Plain there are class 1 ones and class 2 ones, but never mixed.

* '''Class 1''' (''leila ga vaita'') cars have more comfortable seats than class 2 ones, with more legroom, one table standing in the middle of four seats; on most trains, by each seat is a power outlet (on the side of the table) - however, there are still many older coaches in service, especially in the North, that do not have as much. These trains are currently marketed as '''class 1-p'''<ref>Note that ''p'' is the second letter of the Chlouvānem script, and is used just like we'd use e.g. "1a" vs. "1b".</ref> (''leilapapas ga vaita'') and are somewhat cheaper than regular class 1 ones. Class 1 (and 1-p) cars are the only class found on most interurban trains and are also found on all express and international trains.

* '''High class''' (''lalla ga vaita'') cars are not much different from class 1 ones but are more reminescent of seating on aircraft (with more leg room): they have more comfortable, to some extent reclining seats with foldable tables ahead, and one power socket per seat. They all have occasionally passing attendants with catering carts, even on trains with pantry cars. High class on newer ''Kimatāye'' and maglev trains also has free wi-fi. They are found on express and international trains (together with class 1) and are the only class found on kimatāye and maglev trains.

The other two types are nighttime sleeping couches: '''Sleeping class 2''' (''dani ga puglavaita'') cars have six-bed sleeping compartments with no doors; beds have a single pillow and often no sheets and there are only curtains (not blinds) on the windows. The uppermost bed is smaller and somewhat difficult to climb to, but is also extremely cheap. '''Sleeping class 1''' (''leila ga puglavaita'') cars have four-bed sleeping compartments with a lockable door (unlockable, anyway, by the train personnel), beds have two pillows and sheets and there are blinds on the windows; there is also a sink in every compartment.

=====Fares=====

Fares are dependent on the type of passenger car one wishes to travel in and on the type of train service; most trains operate on the principle of zones, with zones being defined differently depending on the area (influenced mainly by distance between stations, population density, and terrain traversed). In addition, there are (separate) surcharge tickets for the type of train service - note that for this purpose, local and fast local trains are a single category, as are international and night express trains.

====Air and Water====

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 The Inquisition has a railway length of about 450,000 km, linking all mainland dioceses, including steppes and rainforests; many island dioceses also have local railway systems. About 95% of the network uses the standard Chlouvānem gauge (1pā 1.2, ~1,472 mm — usually called ''leileidani ga khlatimas'' “one-one-two gauge”), but narrower gauges are used for local mountainous lines and, in some cities, for light metro lines, especially in some networks which have very narrow turns (as in the Pamahīnėna Subway). Some local lines in the North still use the Skyrdagor gauge of 1pā 1.1 (~1,385 mm), even though adaptation to the Chlouvānem gauge has often been proposed - also because many countries in Greater Skyrdagor are changing their lines to Chlouvānem gauge too. Fixed block signalling is used in most of the network, but a few suburban lines near Līlasuṃghāṇa and the Cami Coastal Loop use moving block signalling, as do also many subway lines in Līlasuṃghāṇa, Ilėnimarta, Galiākina, Cami, Lūlunimarta, Huñeibāma, and Līlekhaitė.<br/>Most of the network is nationalized, managed by local branches of the ''Mutada'' (''murkadhānāvīyi tammilīltumi darañcamūh'', "Inquisitorial Railway Group", also called ''mutacamūh''), but there are some local lines, especially when part of subway networks, which are privately managed.
-Railway lines are common even in rural areas, with in fact most settlements being located near railways, and rail lines being the most common means of passenger transport overall. Railway stations are also major meeting points in cities and towns, usually lying in a major square; in small towns they’re often surrounded by the main services like bars, post offices, banks, and a few shops; the most important stations in large cities are true shopping malls or even multifunctional buildings with offices and hotels: the stations of Cami-Tautehana and Līlasuṃghāṇa-Kahėrimaila are the 2nd and 3rd largest public buildings<ref>The largest buildings in the Inquisition are aircraft and spacecraft building halls, with the Construction Hall at the Dīlthutalāki Cosmodrome being the largest one (and second-largest on the planet).</ref> in the Inquisition (after the Main Terminal of Mamaikala International Airport).<br/>Train services range from those of suburban importance to high-speed, often overnight, links between cities; a few major cities are linked by high-speed maglev lines that in a few cases may operate at speeds up to 700 km/h; the following types of trains are found on Chlouvānem railways, excluding commuter rail systems:
+Railway lines are common even in rural areas, with in fact most settlements being located near railways, and rail lines being the most common means of passenger transport overall. Railway stations are also major meeting points in cities and towns, usually lying in a major square; in small towns they’re often surrounded by the main services like bars, post offices, banks, and a few shops; the most important stations in large cities are true shopping malls or even multifunctional buildings with offices and hotels: the stations of Cami-Tautehana and Līlasuṃghāṇa-Kahėrimaila are the 2nd and 3rd largest public buildings<ref>The largest buildings in the Inquisition are aircraft and spacecraft building halls, with the Construction Hall at the Dīlthutalāki Cosmodrome being the largest one (and second-largest on the planet).</ref> in the Inquisition (after the Main Terminal of Mamaikala International Airport).
+=====Train services=====
+Train services range from those of suburban importance to high-speed, often overnight, links between cities; a few major cities are linked by high-speed maglev lines that in a few cases may operate at speeds up to 700 km/h; the following types of trains are found on Chlouvānem railways, excluding commuter rail systems:
 * Local trains (''nīyutiūkirena tammeyai''), which typically stop at every station between two termini (though some minor stations may only be served in some parts of the day, on some days only, or even seasonally; in rural areas there are a few halts where trains only stop at request). The termini of local trains are usually administrative seats of circuits or episcopal seats. All rural railway lines in the Inquisition have local train services.
 * Fast local trains (''kimæh nīyutiūkirena tammeyai''), which operate mostly on rural lines but, unlike local trains, usually skip the smallest stations: in most areas, this means that only settlements with more than 6,000 people are served. Anyway, fast local trains are usually limited to the peak hours in the morning and in the evening, with possibly one around lunchtime.
 * Interurban trains (''galamartausirena tammeyai''), which are inter-city trains which link more cities of regional importance. In most areas of the densely populated Lāmiejāya-Lāmberah plain, interurban trains typically follow routes parallel to the main high speed lines and are shorter and stop at more stations that interurban trains in other areas of the country, resembling more fast local trains. Local trains in those areas are in fact often shorter shuttle services between a few major towns (which still do often have quite sizable populations compared to other "rural" towns elsewhere) outside the major metro areas.
 * Express trains (''phūmitammeyai'', lit. "shot trains") are a category of fast trains that operate between major cities not served by high-speed railway lines. Some Express trains also run on high-speed lines in some areas. Express trains are sometimes named, as in the iconic ''Samvāldīlthiphūmas'', the express train between Nyamukuma and Spėrunīnema, with its 1500 km long crossing of the deserts in Samvālšaṇṭrė.
-* Night express trains (''lalei phūmitammeyai'') are trains that operate on normal and high-speed lines during the night, providing sleeping accomodation. These trains are still very common in many areas of the Inquisition.
+* Night express trains (''lalei phūmitammeyai'') are trains that operate on normal and high-speed lines during the night, providing sleeping accomodation. These trains are still very common in the Inquisition, as many people prefer nighttime trains to daytime air travel, citing time optimization as a factor.
 * International trains (''galabhælausirena tammeyai'') are express trains that connect cities of the Inquisition with foreign ones. They mainly depart from the cities of Kuma Nīmāliša, Kimbahėši, and Kuratugombė in the West; Tohailena and Mālim in the Northwest, and Måmatempuñih, Kateihaneh, Hålša, and Pethaṣāvīh in the Northeast, reaching most neighboring countries. The most travelled daily international routes are Mālim-iQaasuringaat (iKalurilut) and Måmatempuñih-Foamipaha (Brono), in addition to the ''Karinaktei phūmas'' linking every three days the Northern Chlouvānem city of Hålša to Tol Szyptag, the second-largest city of Karynaktja, passing through the whole country of Tulfasysz.
 * ''Kimatāye'' or, officially, high-speed trains (''lalla kemāmitini tammeyai'' — ''kimatai'' is actually the name of the line, not of the service, even if that's how it is colloquially known as), which link major cities at speeds usually exceeding 320 vyā-g (vyāṣojrai per Chlouvānem hour) (about 325 km/h).
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 Freight transport is also dominated by railways, giving rise to large freight depots even inside cities, even though they have often been closed, converted to public parks, and rebuilt outside the city as city growth circled them (this has happened most notably in Līlasuṃghāṇa, Ilėnimarta, and Līlikanāna, but not for example in Līlta which still has a mid-sized freight depot close to the city center).
+=====Types of cars=====
+Trains in the Inquisition consist of five different types of passenger cars, each one having its own fare.
+Three types of cars are general daytime passenger cars:
+* '''Class 2''' (''dani ga vaita'') cars are found on local, fast local, and (in most of the Plain only) interurban trains, as well as in suburban lines around many cities (including actually suburban lines counted as part of the Līlasuṃghāṇa Subway) and are the cheapest everywhere, not requiring any additional fee ticket - they have basic seats, cushioned but stiff; every row has six or four seats depending on train model and newer trains have two power outlets per row. In all trains where they are found, today there is no other class - in the past, however, it was common for interurban trains to have one or two significantly cheaper class 2 coaches and many more class 1 ones - today, all interurban trains outside of the Plain are fully class 1, while in the Plain there are class 1 ones and class 2 ones, but never mixed.
+* '''Class 1''' (''leila ga vaita'') cars have more comfortable seats than class 2 ones, with more legroom, one table standing in the middle of four seats; on most trains, by each seat is a power outlet (on the side of the table) - however, there are still many older coaches in service, especially in the North, that do not have as much. These trains are currently marketed as '''class 1-p'''<ref>Note that ''p'' is the second letter of the Chlouvānem script, and is used just like we'd use e.g. "1a" vs. "1b".</ref> (''leilapapas ga vaita'') and are somewhat cheaper than regular class 1 ones. Class 1 (and 1-p) cars are the only class found on most interurban trains and are also found on all express and international trains.
+* '''High class''' (''lalla ga vaita'') cars are not much different from class 1 ones but are more reminescent of seating on aircraft (with more leg room): they have more comfortable, to some extent reclining seats with foldable tables ahead, and one power socket per seat. They all have occasionally passing attendants with catering carts, even on trains with pantry cars. High class on newer ''Kimatāye'' and maglev trains also has free wi-fi. They are found on express and international trains (together with class 1) and are the only class found on kimatāye and maglev trains.
+The other two types are nighttime sleeping couches: '''Sleeping class 2''' (''dani ga puglavaita'') cars have six-bed sleeping compartments with no doors; beds have a single pillow and often no sheets and there are only curtains (not blinds) on the windows. The uppermost bed is smaller and somewhat difficult to climb to, but is also extremely cheap. '''Sleeping class 1''' (''leila ga puglavaita'') cars have four-bed sleeping compartments with a lockable door (unlockable, anyway, by the train personnel), beds have two pillows and sheets and there are blinds on the windows; there is also a sink in every compartment.
+=====Fares=====
+Fares are dependent on the type of passenger car one wishes to travel in and on the type of train service; most trains operate on the principle of zones, with zones being defined differently depending on the area (influenced mainly by distance between stations, population density, and terrain traversed). In addition, there are (separate) surcharge tickets for the type of train service - note that for this purpose, local and fast local trains are a single category, as are international and night express trains.
 ====Air and Water====