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The Chenab Rail Bridge, the world's highest railway bridge, is a steel and concrete arch bridge carrying a single-track railway line, located between Bakkal and Kauri in the Reasi district of the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
A train pulled by an NJ2 locomotive travels on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway. This article lists the highest railways in the world. The table only includes non-cable passenger railways whose culminating point is over 3,000 metres above sea level, regardless of their location, gauge or type.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or the Toy Train, is a 610 mm (2 ft) gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. [1] Built between 1879 and 1881, it is about 88 km (55 mi) long.
The Tanggula railway station on the Qingzang railway in China and Tibet, opened in 2006, is at 5,068 m (16,627 feet). In Switzerland, the Jungfraubahn (JB) is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) rack railway which runs 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Kleine Scheidegg to the highest railway station in Europe at Jungfraujoch (elevation 3,471 m, 11,388 ft).
Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway: Qilianshan No.2 Tunnel 3,608 m (11,837 ft) 2014 Switzerland: Jungfrau Railway: Jungfraujoch: 3,454 m (11,332 ft) [5] 1912 Kenya: Uganda Railway: Baringo County: 2,785 m (9,137 ft) 1930 Germany: Bavarian Zugspitze Railway [6] Schneefernerhaus: 2,650 m (8,694 ft) 1930 Taiwan: Alishan Forest Railway: Chushan
A railway platform is an area in a train ... cancellations, platform changes, changes in routes and destinations, the number of carriages in the train and the ...
Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji Hubballi Junction Railway Station (Station code: UBL), is a railway junction station under Hubballi railway division of South Western Railway zone (SWR) of Indian Railways situated in Hubli, Karnataka, India. The platform number 1 of Hubli Junction has a length of 1,507 metres, making it the longest railway platform ...
Shimla railway station is located at an altitude of 2,075 metres (6,808 ft) above mean sea level. [2] It was allotted the railway code of SML under the jurisdiction of Ambala railway division. The 762 mm (2 ft 6 in)-wide narrow-gauge Kalka-Shimla Railway was constructed by Delhi–Ambala–Kalka Railway Company and opened for traffic in 1903. [3]