Mountain railway

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Brienz Rothorn Bahn ascending Brienzer Rothorn in the Swiss Alps
Vall de Núria Rack Railway, Spain

A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region. It may operate through the mountains by following 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 narrow gauge tracks to allow for tight curves in the track and reduce tunnel size and structure gauge, and hence construction cost and effort. Where mountain railways need to climb steep gradients, they may use steep grade railway technology, or even operate as funicular railways.

List of mountain railways[edit]

Argentina[edit]

Australia[edit]

Austria[edit]

Bolivia[edit]

Brazil[edit]

Canada[edit]

Chile[edit]

China[edit]

Colombia[edit]

Croatia[edit]

Eritrea[edit]

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Greece[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

India[edit]

Isle of Man[edit]

Israel[edit]

Italy[edit]

Japan[edit]

Mexico[edit]

New Zealand[edit]

Norway[edit]

Peru[edit]

Romania[edit]

View from Oravița – Anina railway in 2010.

Russia[edit]

Apsheronsk railway

Slovakia[edit]

Slovenia[edit]

Bohinj railway

Spain[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

Taiwan[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

United States[edit]

Venezuela[edit]

Vietnam[edit]

Mountain railways in fiction[edit]

The Culdee Fell Railway is featured in the book Mountain Engines, part of The Railway Series by Rev.W.Awdry.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Described by the operator, Linz AG Linien In German
  2. ^ Se construye Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Schwarza valley line
  4. ^ "Georgian Railway".
  5. ^ Map of Huancayo – Huancavelica
  6. ^ "Huancavelica upgrade". Railway Gazette International. 1 Jun 2006. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  7. ^ "El Tren Macho reanudó sus operaciones entre Huancayo y Huancavelica". El Comercio (in Spanish). 5 Dec 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  8. ^ Apsheronsk railway
  9. ^ Tourist Railway
  10. ^ "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.

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