Mountain railway
Brienz Rothorn Bahn ascending Brienzer Rothorn in the Swiss Alps
A mountain railway is a
mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the summit
.
Mountain railways often use
funicular railways
.
List of mountain railways
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Argentina
- Mendoza to Los Andes, Chile, see Chile below
Australia
- Glenreagh Mountain Railway
- Mt Morgan Rack Railway – abandoned in 1955.
- Skitube Alpine Railway
- West Coast Wilderness Railway
Austria
- Achensee Railway
- Arlberg Railway
- Mariazell Railway
- Pöstlingberg Railway[1]
- Semmering Railway – A World Heritage Site
- Schafberg Railway
- Schneeberg Railway
Bolivia
Brazil
- Corcovado Rack Railway
- São Paulo Railway
Canada
Chile
- Arica–La Paz
- Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
- El Ferrocarril Trasandino Los Andes – Mendoza, Los Andes – Mendoza. The rebuild will be adhesion only.[2]
China
- Gebishi Railway
- Kunming–Hai Phong Railway
- Qingzang railway
Colombia
Croatia
Eritrea
France
- Artouste (Petit train d')
- La Rhune (Petit train de)
- Mont Blanc Tramway
- Montenvers Railway
- Saint Gervais-Vallorcine (Ligne de)
Germany
- Drachenfels Railway (Drachenfelsbahn)
- Harz Railway (Harzbahn)
- Rübeland Railway (Rübelandbahn)
- Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen)
- Harz Railway (Harzquerbahn)
- Brocken Railway (Brockenbahn)
- Selke Valley Railway(Selketalbahn)
- Murg Valley Railway (Murgtalbahn)
- Schwarza Valley Railway (Schwarzatalbahn)[3]
- Wendelstein Railway(Wendelsteinbahn)
- Bavarian Zugspitze Railway (Bayerische Zugspitzbahn)
Georgia
- Borjomi-Bakuriani railway "Kukushka" (ბაკურიანი-ბორჯომი რკინიგზა)[4]
Greece
- Diakofto Kalavrita Railway
Hong Kong
India
- Darjeeling Himalayan Railway – A world Heritage Site
- Nilgiri Mountain Railway – A world Heritage Site
- Kalka-Shimla Railway– A world Heritage Site
- Matheran Hill Railway
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
- Superga Rack Railway
Japan
- Hakone Tozan Railway
- Ikawa Line, Oigawa Railway
- Kurobe Gorge Railway
Mexico
- Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Huatusco
New Zealand
- Rimutaka Incline Commenced operation in 1878 and ceased operation in 1955.
Norway
- Flåmsbana
Peru
- Empresa nacional de ferrocarriles del Peru
- Standard gauge)
- )
- Standard gauge)
- Cusco - Machu Picchu, Cusco – Machu Picchu(3 ft or 914 mm gauge)
Romania
- Ploiești – Brașov railway
- Brașov – Sibiu – Arad railway
- Râmnicu Vâlcea – Sibiu railway
- Târgu Jiu – Simeria railway
- Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Caransebeș railway
- Oraviţa – Aninarailway
- Cluj-Napoca – Oradea railway
- Deda railway, and Brașov – Întorsura Buzăului
- Sighetul Marmatieirailway
- Adjud – Siculeni railway
- Moldovita
- Arad – Ineu – Brad
- Buzău – Nehoiașu.
Russia
- Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway – located in the Krasnodar Krai, gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).[8][9]
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
- Appenzeller Bahnen
- Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren
- Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen
- Lötschberg railway line
- Berner Oberland Bahn
- Brienz Rothorn Bahn
- Chemin de fer Aigle-Leysin
- Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champéry
- Chemin de fer Aigle-Sépey-Diablerets
- Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye
- Chemins de fer electriques Veveysans
- Chemin de fer Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye
- Chemin de fer Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez
- Emmental-Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn
- Gornergratbahn
- Gotthardbahn
- Jungfraubahn
- Harderbahn
- Furka Oberalp Bahn)[10]
- Monte Generoso Railway
- Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line
- Pilatusbahn
- Rhätische Bahn
- Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn)
- Rorschach-Heiden-Bahn
- Schynige Platte Bahn
- Chemin de fer Martigny–Châtelard and Chemin de fer Martigny–Orsières)
- Trogenerbahn
- Uetlibergbahn
- Wädenswil-Einsiedeln-Bahn
- Wengernalpbahn
- Waldenburgerbahn
- Brünigbahn)
Taiwan
United Kingdom
United States
- Alamogordo and Sacramento Mountain Railway
- Boca and Loyalton Railroad
- Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company
- Cascade Tunnel
- Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
- Central Pacific Railroad
- Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
- Denver and Salt Lake Railway
- Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
- Feather River Route
- Georgetown Loop Railroad
- Gilpin Railroad
- Lookout Mountain Incline Railway in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway
- Michigan-California Lumber Company
- Mount Lowe Railway
- Mount Tom Railroad
- Mount Washington Cog Railway
- Mountain Division
- Northwestern Pacific Railroad
- Otis Elevating Railway
- Raton Pass
- Rio Grande Southern Railroad
- San Diego and Arizona Railway
- Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad
- Silver City, Pinos Altos and Mogollon Railroad
- Silverton Railroad
- Tehachapi Loop
- Uintah Railway
- White Pass and Yukon Route
Venezuela
- Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela
Vietnam
- Tháp Chàm Railway – Abandoned after the Vietnam War.
Mountain railways in fiction
The Rev.W.Awdry.
See also
References
- ^ Described by the operator, Linz AG Linien In German
- ^ Se construye Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Schwarza valley line
- ^ "Georgian Railway".
- ^ Map of Huancayo – Huancavelica
- ^ "Huancavelica upgrade". Railway Gazette International. 1 Jun 2006. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "El Tren Macho reanudó sus operaciones entre Huancayo y Huancavelica". El Comercio (in Spanish). 5 Dec 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Apsheronsk railway
- ^ Tourist Railway
- ^ "Unsere Geschichte: Von der Visp-Zermatt-Bahn bis zur BVZ Holding AG" (in German, French, and English). Brig, Switzerland: BVZ Holding AG. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
External links
- Homepage of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (in English, German, and French)
- Narrow gauge railways of Switzerland (in English and German)
- El Ferrocarril Trasandino Los Andes – Trans-Andean Railways) (all others in Spanish only)
- seconstruye.com el tren Los Andes – Mendoza
- Museo Ferrocarril Transandino
- Ferrocarril Central Andina S.A.
- Ferrocarril Central Andino S.A.
- Map of central Peru Callao – Huancayo
- Map of south Peru/Bolivia Machu Picchu – Lake Titicaca – west coast Pacific Ocean
- Route Arequipa – Puno (Lake Titicaca)
- Route Cusco – Puno (Lake Titicaca)
- Route Cusco – Machu Picchu
- Homepage of the Mount Washington Cog Railway (First ever mountain climbing cog railway)
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