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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.
The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. Functioning of the rack and pinion on the Strub system. A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.
The final generation is represented by two low-floor electric motor coaches of type Stadler GTW and numbered A10-A11, built by Stadler Rail in Switzerland in 2003. The line also owns a diesel rack locomotive, D9, used on works trains and to push the snow plough. Cars A10 and A11 are identical to the rolling stock of the Montserrat Rack Railway ...
Rail crossing at Rigi Staffel, dead-end rail to the summit Oldest mountain rack railway in Europe (1873), highest standard gauge in Europe, rail crossing involves change of train at Rigi Staffel Chur–Arosa: Graubünden: Alps: Arosa: 1,739 m (5,705 ft) 6% 1,000 mm: No Dead-end rail Grütschalp–Mürren: Bern: Alps: Mürren: 1,639 m (5,377 ft ...
This is a list of highest passenger railways in operation in Europe. It includes only non-cable railways [2] whose culminating point is over 1,200 metres above sea level. Most of them are located in the Alps, where two railways, the Jungfrau and Gornergrat railways, exceed 3,000 metres and nine other exceed 2,000 metres, including four railway ...
The Gornergrat railway station is situated at an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft), which makes the Gornergrat Railway the second highest railway in Europe after the Jungfrau, and the highest open-air railway of the continent. The line opened in 1898, and was the first electric rack railway to be built in Switzerland.
The Gornergrat railway station, the highest (open-air) railway station building on the continent. This is a list of high-altitude railway stations in Europe.It includes any railway station or location with passenger railway services (on adhesion or rack railways), located at an elevation of over 2,000 metres above sea level.
The Vitznau–Rigi railway line is a Swiss standard gauge rack railway that runs from Vitznau on the shore of Lake Lucerne to Rigi.It was built in 1871 by the Rigibahn, and is now owned by Rigi Railways, along with the Arth–Rigi railway line, which runs on the other side of the mountain, and the Weggis–Rigi Kaltbad cable car (Luftseilbahn Weggis–Rigi Kaltbad, LWRK).