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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 ...
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.
Highest railway in Europe, underground above 2,350 m. [6] [7] Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad: Leadville: 3,414 m (11,201 ft) USA: Highest Adhesion railway in North America: Gornergrat Railway: Gornergrat: 3,090 m (10,138 ft) Switzerland: 1898: Highest open-air railway in Europe: Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad: Cumbres Pass: 3,054 ...
The base station hub of Kleine Scheidegg is the highest starting point for a railroad in Europe, and the top terminus of Jungfraujoch is the highest railway station in Europe. The initial open-air section culminates just after Eigergletscher station, at around 2,350 metres, which makes the line the second highest open-air railway in Switzerland ...
Third highest open-air station in Europe Eigergletscher: 2,320 m (7,612 ft) Bern: Lauterbrunnen: Jungfrau: Eiger Glacier: Ospizio Bernina: 2,253 m (7,392 ft) Graubünden: Poschiavo: Bernina: Ospizio Bernina Rail crossing (summit), highest rail mountain pass in Europe, [1] highest station in Eastern Switzerland: Brienzer Rothorn 2,244 m (7,362 ...
Reaching a height of 2,253 metres (7,392 ft) above sea level, it is the highest railway crossing in Europe and the third-highest railway in Switzerland. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent, and—with inclines of up to 7%—as one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world. The elevation difference on the section ...
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.
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