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List of highest railways

Index List of highest railways

This article lists the highest railways in the world. [1]

79 relations: Adhesion railway, Aletsch Glacier, Alishan Forest Railway, Americas, Amtrak, Andes, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Australia, Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, Ben Lomond, New South Wales, Bernina railway, BNSF Railway, Bolivia, Cóndor station, Chengdu–Kunming railway, Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, Cumbres Pass, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, Donner Pass, Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos, Europe, Ferrocarril Central Andino, First Transcontinental Railroad, Ghum, West Bengal, Gornergrat Railway, Gornergrat railway station, Heaviest trains, India, Jungfrau Railway, Jungfraujoch, Jungfraujoch railway station, Kalka–Shimla railway, Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway, Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway, Leadville, Colorado, Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad, List of highest railways by country, List of highest railways in Europe, List of railway stations, Lonely Planet, Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, Moffat Tunnel, Mont Blanc Tramway, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, North America, Oberalp Pass, Ooty, Ospizio Bernina (Rhaetian Railway station), ..., Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), Peru, PeruRail, Pilatus (mountain), Pilatus Railway, Qinghai–Tibet railway, Rail transport, Raton Pass, Rio Mulatos-Potosí line, Salta, Salta–Antofagasta railway, Schneefernerhaus, Shimla, Shimla railway station, Silverton, Colorado, Southern Xinjiang railway, Taiwan, Tanggula Mountains, Tanggula Pass, Tanggula railway station, Tennessee Pass (Colorado), Tibet, Ticlio, Transandine Railway, Tren a las Nubes, Udhagamandalam railway station, Union Pacific Railroad, Wushaoling Tunnel, Yuraqqucha (Lima-Junín). Expand index (29 more) »

Adhesion railway

An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train.

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Aletsch Glacier

The Aletsch Glacier (Aletschgletscher) or Great Aletsch Glacier (Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps.

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Alishan Forest Railway

The Alishan Forest Railway is an 86 km network of narrow gauge railways running up to and throughout the popular mountain resort of Alishan in Chiayi County, Taiwan.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bavarian Zugspitze Railway

The Bavarian Zugspitze Railway (Bayerische Zugspitzbahn) is one of four rack railways still working in Germany, along with the Wendelstein Railway, the Drachenfels Railway and the Stuttgart Rack Railway.

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Ben Lomond, New South Wales

Ben Lomond is a village on the in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bernina railway

The Bernina railway is a single-track railway line forming part of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB).

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BNSF Railway

The BNSF Railway Company is the largest freight railroad network in North America, followed by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in second place, its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Cóndor station

Cóndor railway station on the Rio Mulatos-Potosí line, Bolivia, is the highest station in the western hemisphere, at an altitude of 4,786 m (15,700 ft) above sea level.

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Chengdu–Kunming railway

The Chengdu–Kunming railway or Chengkun railway, is a major trunkline railroad in southwestern China between Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province and Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province.

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Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad

The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TS) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad running for 64 miles (103 km) between Antonito, Colorado and Chama, New Mexico, United States.

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Cumbres Pass

Cumbres Pass, elevation, is a mountain pass in the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, United States.

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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or Toy Train, is a narrow-gauge railway based on zig zag and loop-line technology which runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Donner Pass

Donner Pass (el.) is a mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake about west of Truckee, California.

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Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) is a narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos

The Ferrocarriles del Ecuador Empresa Publica (FE EP) (Ecuadorian Railways Company) is the national railway of Ecuador.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Ferrocarril Central Andino

Ferrocarril Central Andino (FCCA) is the consortium which operates the Ferrovías Central railway in Peru linking the Pacific port of Callao and the capital Lima with Huancayo and Cerro de Pasco.

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First Transcontinental Railroad

The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

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Ghum, West Bengal

Ghum (also spelt Ghoom) is a small hilly locality in the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region of West Bengal, India.

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Gornergrat Railway

The Gornergrat Railway (Gornergrat Bahn; GGB) is a mountain rack railway, located in the Swiss canton of Valais.

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Gornergrat railway station

Gornergrat is the upper terminal railway station of the Gornergrat railway, a rack railway which links it with the resort of Zermatt.

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Heaviest trains

The heaviest trains in the world are freight trains hauling bulk commodities such as coal and iron ore.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Jungfrau Railway

The Jungfrau Railway (Jungfraubahn, JB) is a metre gauge (gauge) rack railway which runs from Kleine Scheidegg to the highest railway station in Europe at Jungfraujoch, between the Bernese Highlands and the Valais in Switzerland.

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Jungfraujoch

Jungfraujoch is a notable saddleSwiss and Austro-Bavarian German Joch (lit. "yoke") is a term for "ridge between two higher peaks" recorded in the 14th century (Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch "bereits im 14. jahrh. als ortsname: des gotzhus zwing und ban vahet an Rotenhalden und denne die roten bachtalen uf unz an den grat, und den grat obnan hin ob Grüblen hin iemerme, unz an Joch. und ab Joch unz an Stoerben. weisth. 1, 4 (Zürich)").

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Jungfraujoch railway station

Jungfraujoch is an underground railway station situated below the Jungfraujoch col in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.

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Kalka–Shimla railway

The Kalka–Shimla railway is a narrow-gauge railway in North India which traverses a mostly-mountainous route from Kalka to Shimla.

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Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway

The Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway, also known as Lanzhou–Xinjiang Passenger Railway or Lanxin Second Railway (兰新铁路第二双线), is a high-speed rail in northwestern China from Lanzhou in Gansu Province to Ürümqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway

The Lanzhou−Xinjiang railway or Lanxin railway is the longest railway in northwestern China.

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Leadville, Colorado

Leadville is the statutory city that is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States.

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Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad

Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad is a tourist railroad based in Leadville, Colorado, United States.

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List of highest railways by country

This is a list of the highest railways by country.

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List of highest railways in Europe

This is a list of highest passenger railways in operation in Europe.

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List of railway stations

The following is a list of railway stations (also known as railroad stations in the United States), which is indexed by country.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.

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Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway

The Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is an Abt rack system cog railway with track in Colorado, USA, climbing the well-known mountain Pikes Peak.

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Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn

The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland.

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Moffat Tunnel

The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north-central Colorado.

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Mont Blanc Tramway

The Mont Blanc Tramway or Tramway du Mont-Blanc (TMB) is a mountain railway line in the Haute-Savoie department of France.

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Nilgiri Mountain Railway

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) is a railway in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Oberalp Pass

Oberalp Pass (Romansh: Alpsu or Cuolm d'Ursera, German: Oberalppass) (el. 2044 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting the cantons of Graubünden and Uri between Disentis and Andermatt.

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Ooty

Udagamandalam (also known as Ootacamund), and abbreviated as Udhagai or Ooty, (is a town and municipality in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 86 km north of Coimbatore and 128 km south of Mysore and is the capital of the Nilgiris district. It is a popular hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills. Originally occupied by the Toda people, the area came under the rule of the East India Company at the end of the 18th century. The economy is based on tourism and agriculture, along with the manufacture of medicines and photographic film. The town is connected by the Nilgiri ghat roads and Nilgiri Mountain Railway. Its natural environment attracts tourists and it is a popular summer destination. In 2011, the town had a population of 88,430.

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Ospizio Bernina (Rhaetian Railway station)

Ospizio Bernina is a station on the Bernina Railway line between St. Moritz in Switzerland and Tirano in Italy.

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Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad)

The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad / Southern Pacific Railroad, between Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska, and San Francisco, California over the grade of the First Transcontinental Railroad (aka the "Pacific Railroad") which had been opened on May 10, 1869.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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PeruRail

PeruRail is a railway operator providing tourist, freight, and charter services in southern Peru.

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Pilatus (mountain)

Pilatus (also often referred to Mount Pilatus) is a mountain massif overlooking Lucerne in Central Switzerland.

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Pilatus Railway

The Pilatus Railway (Pilatusbahn, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%.

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Qinghai–Tibet railway

The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway (མཚོ་བོད་ལྕགས་ལམ།, mtsho bod lcags lam), is a high-elevation railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Raton Pass

Ratón Pass is a 7,834 ft (2,388 m) elevation mountain pass on the Colorado-New Mexico border in the western United States.

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Rio Mulatos-Potosí line

The Rio Mulatos-Potosí line is a railway line in Bolivia, containing Cóndor station, the world's ninth highest railway station.

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Salta

Salta is a city located in the Lerma Valley, at 1,152 metres (3780 feet) above sea level in the northwest part of Argentina.

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Salta–Antofagasta railway

The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, is a non-electrified single track railway line that links Argentina and Chile passing through the Andes.

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Schneefernerhaus

The Schneefernerhaus is a former hotel in the Alps, that is now used as an environmental research station.

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Shimla

Shimla, also known as Simla, is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Shimla railway station

Shimla railway station is a small railway station in Shimla district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Silverton, Colorado

The town of Silverton is a Statutory Town that is the county seat of, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.

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Southern Xinjiang railway

The Southern Xinjiang railway or Nanjiang railway is a railway between Turpan and Kashgar in Xinjiang, China.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Tanggula Mountains

The Tanggula (Chinese: 唐古拉山, p Tánggǔlāshān, or 唐古拉山脉, p Tánggǔlāshānmài), Tangla, Tanglha, or Dangla Mountains (Tibetan: གདང་ལ་།, w Gdang La, z Dang La) are a mountain range in the central part of the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet.

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Tanggula Pass

The Tanggu La, Tangla Pass, or Tanggu Pass is a wide mountain pass over 5000 metres elevation in China used by the Qinghai–Tibet Highway and Qinghai–Tibet Railway to cross the Tanggula Mountains.

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Tanggula railway station

The Tanggula (Dangla) railway station is a railway station located in Amdo County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, near the border with the Tanggula Town, Qinghai.

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Tennessee Pass (Colorado)

Tennessee Pass elevation is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Ticlio

Ticlio (or Anticona) is a mountain pass and the highest point of the central road of Peru (km 120), in the Andes mountains, reaching a height of.

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Transandine Railway

The Transandine Railway (Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a combined rack (Abt system) and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km.

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Tren a las Nubes

The Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds) is a tourist train service in Salta Province, Argentina.

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Udhagamandalam railway station

Udagamandalam railway station is a terminus station in Ooty, Tamil Nadu.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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Wushaoling Tunnel

The Wushaoling Tunnel is a 21.05 km dual-bore railway tunnel in Gansu, north-west China.

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Yuraqqucha (Lima-Junín)

Yuraqqucha (Quechua yuraq white, qucha lake, "white lake", hispanicized spelling Yuraccocha) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_railways

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