Mountain railway

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.

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

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
See also: list of rack railways
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Bolivia

Brazil

Canada

Chile

China
  • Gebishi Railway
  • Kunming–Hai Phong Railway
  • Qingzang railway

Colombia

Croatia
  • Lika line
  • Rijeka line

Eritrea

France

Germany

Georgia
  • Borjomi-Bakuriani railway "Kukushka" (ბაკურიანი-ბორჯომი რკინიგზა)[4]

Greece
  • Diakofto Kalavrita Railway

Hong Kong

India
Main article: Mountain railways of India

Isle of Man

Italy
  • Superga Rack Railway

Japan

Mexico
  • Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Huatusco

New Zealand

Norway

Peru
  • Empresa nacional de ferrocarriles del Peru
  • Ferrocarril Central Andino (Standard gauge)
  • Ferrocarril Huancayo - Huancavelica,[5] (built to narrow gauge 3 ft (914 mm))
  • Ferrocarril del sur de Peru Arequipa - Puno, (Standard gauge)
  • Cusco - Machu Picchu, Cusco - Machu Picchu (3 ft (914 mm) gauge)

Romania
View from Oraviţa - Anina railway in 2010.

Russia
Apsheronsk railway

Slovakia

Spain

Switzerland
Main article: List of mountain railways in Switzerland

Taiwan

United Kingdom

United States

Venezuela
  • Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela

Vietnam
  • Đà Lạt–Tháp Chàm Railway - Abandoned after the Vietnam War.

Mountain railways in fiction

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

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See also

References
  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. Apsheronsk railway
  7. Tourist Railway
  8. "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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