The first line crossing the country was the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway, which started operating in late 1862.

[2] Belarus is crossed, from Brest to Orsha through Minsk, by an international rail line connecting Berlin and Warsaw to Moscow.

Other important lines are the Minsk-Gomel (to Kyiv), the Orsha-Vitebsk (to Saint Petersburg), the Minsk-Vilnius and others.

Some international trains serving Belarus are the Pribaltika Riga-Odesa, the Minsk-Irkutsk[3] and the Sibirjak Berlin-Novosibirsk (and other Russian destinations).

The only cities with tramway systems are Minsk, Vitebsk, Mazyr and Novopolotsk.