Railways in Jute

Balakian-built railways

The main line from Sitti to Numudu was established first.

The Balak Empire also created a small commuter rail network, with a green line running alongside the main line calling at stations the latter doesn't (save for a couple which all trains call at), and a yellow line going further inland and linking to a railway to Samuru.

After the collapse of the Empire, the commuter rail network is scrapped, but the green line is repurposed as just a local route along the same track just like the railway in Sitti, albeit with not all of the original stations surviving.

Numudu and Samuru Railway

The Numudu and Samuru Railway was a railway connecting the Jutean cities of Numudu and Samuru, the former being under Balak administration. The main Samuru branch opened to passengers in [year] as part of the Balak Empire's initiative to modernise Jute's infrastructure, but faced difficulties both during and after construction as a result of native Samwati resistance, difficult terrain, and a lack of passenger numbers. A branch line diverging southwards to a Balak supply base on an island in Lake Samwati was also constructed. Passenger services were withdrawn from the railway in 1945 due to coal shortages emerging from a focusing of resources into the Great Ekuosian War, with the main Samuru branch being closed completely at this time; the Lake Samwati branch remained open to lingering goods traffic and passenger traffic from the seaplane base in the lake, however in the wake of Balak withdrawal from Jute during the dissolution of the Balak Empire in the 1950s this was reduced further. The supply base ceased to be maintained, and some years later the bridge to it collapsed.