page_title: Inter-city rail
section_title: Chile
hierarchical_section_title: Inter-city rail / Overview of Inter-city rail by country / South America / Chile
caption_attribution_description: Tren del servicio TerraSur en la estación Chillán.
context_page_description: Inter-city rail services are express passenger train services that cover longer distances than commuter or regional trains.
  There is no precise definition of inter-city rail; its meaning may vary from country to country. Most broadly, it can include any rail services that are neither short-distance commuter rail trains within one city area, nor slow regional rail trains calling at all stations and covering local journeys only. Most typically, an inter-city train is an express train with limited stops and comfortable carriages to serve long-distance travel.
  Inter-city rail sometimes provides international services. This is most prevalent in Europe, due to the close proximity of its 50 countries in a 10,180,000 square kilometre area. Eurostar and EuroCity are examples of this. In many European countries the word "InterCity" or "Inter-City" is an official brand name for a network of regular-interval, relatively long-distance train services that meet certain criteria of speed and comfort. This use of the term appeared in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and has been widely imitated.
context_section_description: Chile has inter-city services connecting Santiago to Chillán (occasionally to Temuco), run by Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado. The fastest in Chile (and South America) is TerraSur, reaching around 150 km/h (93 mph).
caption: TerraSur on Estación Chillán. This is Chile's fastest inter-city rail service, reaching 160 kmh on the fastest section of its route
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