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<title>
United Kingdom: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: United Kingdom
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: UK, 16,914 km total; Great Britain's British
Railways (BR) operates 16,584 km 1.435-meter (standard) gauge
(including 4,545 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 330 km 1.600-meter gauge (including 190
km double track)
</p>
<p>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)
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 2,291 total; British Waterways Board, 606
km; Port Authorities, 706 km; other, 979 km
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil (almost all insignificant) 933 km,
petroleum products 2,993 km, natural gas 12,800 km
</p>
<p>Ports: London, Liverpool, Felixstowe, Tees and Hartlepool,
Dover, Sullom Voe, Southampton
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 204 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
3,819,719 GRT/4,941,785 DWT; includes 7 passenger, 16 short-sea
passenger, 37 cargo, 25 container, 14 roll-on/roll-off, 5
refrigerated cargo, 1 vehicle carrier, 65 oil tanker, 1 chemical
tanker, 8 liquefied gas, 1 specialized tanker, 22 bulk, 1
combination bulk, 1 passenger cargo
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 496</l>
<l> usable: 385</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 249</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 1</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 37</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 134</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: technologically advanced domestic and
international system; 30,200,000 telephones; equal mix of buried
cables, microwave and optical-fiber systems; excellent
countrywide broadcast systems; broadcast stations - 225 AM, 525
(mostly repeaters) FM, 207 (3,210 repeaters) TV; 40 coaxial
submarine cables; 5 satellite ground stations operating in
INTELSAT (7 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean), INMARSAT, and
EUTELSAT systems; at least 8 large international switching
centers
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