Mountain railway information

A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region. It may operate through the mountains by following mountain valleys and tunneling...

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908...

The Mountain railways of India are the railway lines that were built in the mountainous regions of India. The term mainly includes the narrow-gauge and...

The Snowdon Mountain Railway (SMR; Welsh: Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a narrow gauge rack-and-pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is...

the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the World Heritage Site of Mountain Railways of India. Zones and divisions of Indian Railways All India...

The Cairngorm Mountain Railway, which opened in 2001, is the highest railway in the United Kingdom. The two-kilometre long funicular ascends the northern...

division of Southern Railway zone. It is a terminus station in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. The terminus is a part of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a World Heritage...

Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system...

maximum for friction-based rail. Most rack railways are mountain railways, although a few are transit railways or tramways built to overcome a steep gradient...

The Brecon Mountain Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Mynydd Brycheiniog) is a 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge tourist railway on the south side of the...

Retrieved 5 January 2009. "Nilgiri Mountain railway". Indian Railways. Retrieved 21 August 2019. "he Nilgiri Mountain Railway as old as the hills". The Hindu...

The Snaefell Mountain Railway (Manx: Raad Yiarn Sniaull) is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe. It joins the village of Laxey with...

of the mountain railways of India. Siliguri, at the base of the Himalayas, was connected with Calcutta (now Kolkata) by a metre gauge railway in 1878...

Talyllyn Railway counterparts. The Culdee Fell Railway (CFR) is Sodor's only rack railway. It climbs to the top of Sodor's highest mountain, which shares...

A railway with narrow gauge trains is run by the Brecon Mountain Railway. The railway is a 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge tourist railway on the...

Semmering railway (German: Semmeringbahn) in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag, was the first mountain railway in...

can also be reached using the Snowdon Mountain Railway, which carried 140,000 passengers in 2019. The rack railway, which opened in 1896, operates over...

town is connected to the plains by the Nilgiri ghat roads and Nilgiri Mountain Railway. The region was earlier known as Ottakal Mandu, with Otha-Cal meaning...

The Jungfrau Railway (German: Jungfraubahn, pronounced [ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯ˌbaːn] , JB) is a mountain rack railway in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, connecting...

district of Tamil Nadu. The train station is a part of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a World Heritage Site. The train station is an important rail hub...

Ketti railway station is a railway station of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Ketti, a hill station town, in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. It is...

notable tourist attraction, it is one of the stations of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, built in 1907, and is a UNESCO declared World Heritage Site. It is...

gauge 0-8-2RT rack and pinion compound locomotive used by the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India. They are used on the 28-kilometre-long...

Llanberis Lake Railway The Snowdon Mountain Railway The Welsh Highland Railway Dolgarrog Railway, Conwy (under construction) Bala & Ffestiniog Railway Heritage...

by the Snaefell Mountain Railway on the Isle of Man. Tramways and light railways often have steeper gradients than heavier railways. This is because...