Leaderless country opens railway stations to places of worship (6)
I believe the answer is:
altars
'stations to places of worship' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'leaderless country opens railway' is the wordplay.
'leaderless' means to remove the first letter.
'country' becomes 'malta' (Malta is an example).
'opens railway' becomes 'rs' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'malta' with its first letter taken away is 'alta'.
'alta'+'rs'='ALTARS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for altars that I've seen before include "Church tables" , "Ceremonial tables" , "Tables in Christian churches" .)