High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Railway stations in Nepal. Nepal is sparsely served by railways although new railways are planned. A number of branch lines of Indian Railways come close to the border with Nepal, though the maps are too coarse to tell. Indian Railways, is the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India. Indian Railways has the largest rail network in Asia and the world's second largest under one management, transporting 20 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily.