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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

Mendoza to Los Andes, Chile, see Chile below

Australia

Glenreagh Mountain Railway
Mt Morgan Rack Railway – abandoned in 1955.
Skitube Alpine Railway
West Coast Wilderness Railway

Austria

Bolivia

Brazil

Canada

BC Rail, crosses the Pacific Coast Range of the Coast Mountains (Garibaldi & Lillooet Ranges)
Kicking Horse Pass
Rogers Pass
White Pass and Yukon Route
Yellowhead Pass

Chile

Ferrocarill Arica La Paz, Arica–La Paz
Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
El Ferrocarril Trasandino Los Andes – Mendoza, Los Andes – Mendoza. The rebuild will be adhesion only.^[2]

China

Colombia

Colombian Railways

Croatia

Eritrea

Eritrean Railway

France

Germany

Drachenfels Railway (Drachenfelsbahn)
Harz Railway (Harzbahn)
- Rübeland Railway (Rübelandbahn)
- Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen)
  - Harz Railway (Harzquerbahn)
  - Brocken Railway (Brockenbahn)
  - Selke Valley Railway(Selketalbahn)
Murg Valley Railway (Murgtalbahn)
Schwarza Valley Railway (Schwarzatalbahn)^[3]
Wendelstein Railway (Wendelsteinbahn)
Bavarian Zugspitze Railway (Bayerische Zugspitzbahn)

Georgia

Borjomi-Bakuriani railway "Kukushka" (ბაკურიანი-ბორჯომი რკინიგზა)^[4]

Japan

Mexico

Ferrocarril de Córdoba a Huatusco

New Zealand

Rimutaka Incline Commenced operation in 1878 and ceased operation in 1955.

Norway

Flåmsbana

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+1⁄2 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

Ploiești – Brașov railway
Brașov – Sibiu – Arad railway
Râmnicu Vâlcea – Sibiu railway
Târgu Jiu – Simeria railway
Drobeta-Turnu Severin – Caransebeș railway
Oraviţa – Anina railway
Cluj-Napoca – Oradea railway
Brașov – Miercurea Ciuc – Deda railway, and Brașov – Întorsura Buzăului
Salva – Sighetul Marmatiei railway
Adjud – Siculeni railway
Suceava – Ilva Mică railway, and Vama – Moldovita
Arad – Ineu – Brad
Buzău – Nehoiașu.

Russia

Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway – located in the Krasnodar Krai, gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).^[8]^[9]

Slovakia

Čierny Hron Railway

Slovenia

Bohinj railway

Spain

Switzerland

Taiwan

Alishan Forest Railway

United Kingdom

United States

Venezuela

Gran Ferrocarril de Venezuela

Vietnam

Đà Lạt–Tháp Chàm Railway – Abandoned after the Vietnam War.

Mountain railways in fiction

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

References

^ Described by the operator, Linz AG Linien In German
^ Se construye Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ Schwarza valley line
^ "Georgian Railway".
^ Map of Huancayo – Huancavelica
^ "Huancavelica upgrade". Railway Gazette International. 1 Jun 2006. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
^ "El Tren Macho reanudó sus operaciones entre Huancayo y Huancavelica". El Comercio (in Spanish). 5 Dec 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
^ Apsheronsk railway
^ Tourist Railway
^ "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.

External links

Homepage of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (in English, German, and French)
Narrow gauge railways of Switzerland (in English and German)
El Ferrocarril Trasandino Los Andes – Mendoza, Argentina (Trans-Andean Railways) (all others in Spanish only)
seconstruye.com el tren Los Andes – Mendoza
Museo Ferrocarril Transandino
Ferrocarril Central Andina S.A.
Ferrocarril Central Andino S.A.
Map of central Peru Callao – Huancayo
Map of south Peru/Bolivia Machu Picchu – Lake Titicaca – west coast Pacific Ocean
Route Arequipa – Puno (Lake Titicaca)
Route Cusco – Puno (Lake Titicaca)
Route Cusco – Machu Picchu
Homepage of the Mount Washington Cog Railway (First ever mountain climbing cog railway)

[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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 {{Short description|Railway which operates within a mountainous region}}
 [[File:Brb bergfahrt.JPG|thumb|right|[[Brienz Rothorn Bahn]] ascending [[Brienzer Rothorn]] in the [[Swiss Alps]]]]
-[[File:La_antiga_locomotora_elèctrica_E.1_del_cremallera_de_Núria_reposa_a_dalt_de_tot_de_la_Vall.jpg|thumb|right|[[Vall de Núria Rack Railway]], Spain]]
+[[File:La_antiga_locomotora_elèctrica_E.1_del_cremallera_de_Núria_reposa_a_dalt_de_tot_de_la_Vall.jpg|thumb|right|[[Vall de Núria Rack Railway]], Catalonia]]
 A '''mountain railway''' is a [[railway]] that operates in a [[mountain range|mountainous region]]. It may operate through the mountains by following [[mountain valley]]s and tunneling beneath [[mountain pass]]es, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the [[summit]].