List of rack railways

This is a list of rack railways, both operating and closed.

Main article: Rack railway
See also: Mountain railway § List of mountain railways
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Angola

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Bolivia

Brazil
Corcovado Rack Railway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chile

Czech Republic
  • Cog railway Tanvald-Harrachov

France

Germany
Stuttgart Rack Railway with wagon to transport bicycles

Greece
  • Diakofto Kalavrita Railway

Hungary

Indonesia
The State Railways of West Sumatra in 1898
  • The former State Railways of West Sumatra's line between Kayutanam and Batutabal (reactivation pending), and Padang Panjang to Payakumbuh (disused).
  • The former Netherlands East Indies Railways' line between Ambarawa and Gemawang, on the Kedungjati-Ambarawa-Magelang-Yogyakarta line. Only the Ambarawa-Bedono section is in operation as a tourist line.

India

Italy
Rack railway Saline-Volterra, built with Strub system. Italy, about 1920
  • Mont Cenis Pass Railway; temporary while main tunnel built.
  • Vesuvius Funicular (1880–1944; originally built as a funicular and then changed to a rack railway. It was the only railway climbing an active volcano. It was destroyed various times by Vesuvius eruptions. With its last destruction in 1944, it was never built again. It is famous worldwide as a result of the song "Funiculì Funiculà" written about it)
  • Opicina Tramway (1902–1928; rack replaced with a funicular section)
  • Rittnerbahn (rack section closed)
  • Superga Rack Railway
  • Principe–Granarolo rack railway in the city of Genoa
  • S.Ellero – Saltino (1892–1922; it was the first rack railway built in Italy)
  • Lagonegro-Castrovillari-Spezzano Albanese of Ferrovie Calabro Lucane (1915–1978; it consisted of a series of separated lines which had to be unified into a single one but the project was never completed)
  • Vibo Valentia-Mileto of Ferrovie Calabro Lucane (1917–1966; it was a local rack railway localized in south Italy)
  • Rocchette-Asiago (1910–1958; it was the highest Italian rack railway)
  • Catanzaro Città – Catanzaro Sala of Ferrovie della Calabria (Actually on service; it connects the city of Catanzaro to the borough of Sala)
  • Paola-Cosenza of Ferrovie dello Stato (1915–1987; it was replaced by a tunnel)
  • Saline-Volterra of Ferrovie dello Stato (1863–1958; it was part of a railway which connected Cecina to Volterra. Downstream flat line, from Cecina to Saline, is actually on service)
  • Dittaino-Leonforte of Ferrovie dello Stato (1918–1959; it was located on the island of Sicily)
  • Dittaino-Piazza Armerina of Ferrovie dello Stato (1912–1971; it was dismissed after a series of landslides which damaged some parts of the line)
  • Lercara Bassa-Filaga-Palazzo Adriano-Magazzolo of Ferrovie dello Stato (1924–1959; it was used for mining and workers transports in Sicily )
  • Agrigento-Naro-Licata (1911–1960; it was used to transport sulfur extracted from mines located on the island of Sicily)

Japan
  • Ikawa Line, Oigawa Railway
  • Usui Pass was the first rack and pinion line in Japan, on the Shin-Etsu Line of the then Japanese National Railway. It was replaced in 1963 by a new parallel adhesion line, and in turn replaced by the Nagano Shinkansen line opened for the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano.

Lebanon
  • A rack railway used to exist on the climb from Beirut to Syria, gauge 1,050 mm (3 ft 5 11⁄32 in).

Mexico
  • The 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge Mapimi Railroad in Durango State had a short Abt rack section from El Cambio to Ojuela. The maximum grade was 13.6% and it was worked by two Baldwin 0-6-2T steam locomotives built in 1896 and two Baldwin 2-6-2T steam locomotives built in 1898 and 1900. The railroad closed in the early 1930s.[5]

Panama
  • Large ships are guided through the Panama Canal Locks by electric locomotives known as mulas (mules), running on rack rails on the lock walls. The new locks, projected to open in 2015, will use tugs.

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia
  • Štrbské Pleso – Štrba rack railway
  • Brezno – Tisovec rack railway

South Africa

Spain

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States
The Mount Washington Cog Railway in 2006

Venezuela

Vietnam
  • The Đà Lạt-Tháp Chàm Railway in Southern Vietnam. Abandoned after the Vietnam War, although a 7 km section remains in use as a tourist attraction. Built in the 1920s, the 84 km line had a cogwheel part 34 km long, running through four tunnels with a total length of almost 1,000 meters, taking trains from the Krongpha Pass up the Ngoan Muc (Bellevue) Pass to Da Lat.

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