List of rail yards


This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
These are important marshalling yards for the formation of freight/goods trains, and/or with a large volume of traffic, and/or with a very extensive track systems; including classification yards, hump yards, freight handling yards, and intermodal terminals.

North America

Canada

;From west to east:
By state in alphabetical order:

British Isles

North Wall yard in Dublin is used for loading per way materials trains and stabling unused stock. Also host a small wagon repair shop used to maintain ore and container wagons.
As of 2009, DB Schenker Rail operates the following marshalling yards, defined as sites "where trains can be marshalled or re-marshalled using resident pilot locomotives, ground staff and train examination staff".
In Germany due to ongoing rationalisation it is likely that some yards will close. The ones likely to continue in operation are marked in bold.
;India
;Indonesia
;China
;South Korea
;Sri Lanka
Yard In Sri Lanka
;Turkey
;Thailand

Australia

Brazil