Mountain railway

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Brienz Rothorn Bahn ascending Brienzer Rothorn in the Swiss Alps

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[]

Argentina[]

Australia[]

Austria[]

Bolivia[]

Brazil[]

Canada[]

Chile[]

China[]

Colombia[]

  • Colombian Railways

Croatia[]

Eritrea[]

France[]

Germany[]

Georgia[]

Greece[]

  • Diakofto Kalavrita Railway

Hong Kong[]

India[]

Isle of Man[]

Israel[]

Italy[]

  • Superga Rack Railway

Japan[]

Mexico[]

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 or 914 mm, but converted to 4 ft 8+12 in or 1,435 mm standard gauge between 2006 and 2010[6][7])
  • Ferrocarril del sur de Peru Arequipa - Puno, (Standard gauge)
  • Cusco - Machu Picchu, Cusco - Machu Picchu (3 ft or 914 mm gauge)

Romania[]

View from Oravița - Anina railway in 2010.

Russia[]

Slovakia[]

Spain[]

Switzerland[]

Taiwan[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Venezuela[]

  • Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela

Vietnam[]

Mountain railways in fiction[]

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

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. ^ "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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