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The Drachenfels Railway (German: Drachenfelsbahn) is a rack railway line in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. The line runs from Königswinter , on the east bank of the Rhine , to the summit of the Drachenfels mountain at an altitude of 289 m (948 ft).
The railway was officially closed on 17 August 1959 and work began immediately on lifting the track. The railway company (St. Andreasberger Eisenbahn GmbH) operated a bus service until 30 May 1965 when the service was taken over by the DB. [3] The surviving station building was a resort administrative office and then, until 2005, an artist's ...
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The mountain railway climbs through a total height of 1,217.27 metres (3,993.7 feet). The Wendelstein Railway is one of only four working rack railways in Germany, the others being the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, the Drachenfels Railway and the Stuttgart Rack Railway. It is also the second-highest railway in Germany, after the Zugspitze Railway ...
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. It was destroyed various times by Vesuvius eruptions. With ...
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Drachenfels, view from Mehlem. The Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock", German pronunciation: [ˈdʁaxənˌfɛls]) is a hill (321 metres (1,053 ft)) in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath.
Drachenfels (Siebengebirge) D. Drachenfels Railway; S. Schloss Drachenburg This page was last edited on 1 April 2018, at 22:00 (UTC). Text is ...