List of rack railways
This article lists cog railways sorted by continent and country.
Explanation of symbols
- In the column tracks mean:
- R = pure cog railway, d. H. with rack along the entire length.
- G = mixed adhesion and cog railway, d. H. with rack on sections.
- The number behind it stands for the number of tracks.
- In the System column :
- A2 = abbot , 2 slats
- A3 = abbot, 3 slats
- P = Peter
- R = Riggenbach
- S = Strub
- VR = from roll
- Railways that are still in operation as cog railways are highlighted in bold .
Rack railways in Europe
Germany
BL | Place, route | Track -wide [mm] |
Tracks | Length [km] |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Operator Article Comments |
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BW | Wasseralfingen , Wasseralfingen iron and steel works | 1000 | G | 3.6 | R. | 1876 | 1924 | first rack railway in the German Empire |
BW |
Freiburg (Breisgau) main station - Neustadt (Black Forest) one section: Hirschsprung - Hinterzarten (7.2 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 34.9 | Bissinger-Klose | 1887 | 1932 | DB Höllentalbahn 1932 conversion to friction operation |
BW |
Reutlingen - Kleinengstingen one section: Honau– Lichtenstein (2.2 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 15.4 | Bissinger-Klose | 1893 | 1969 | Echazbahn route dismantled |
BW |
Rastatt - Freudenstadt one section: Friedrichstal - Freudenstadt Hbf (5.9 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 58.2 | R-Klose | 1901 | 1924 | Murgtalbahn 1924 changeover to friction operation |
BW | Stuttgart - Degerloch | 1000 | R 1 | 2.2 | R. | 1884 | today |
SSB Zahnradbahn Stuttgart the only cogwheel railway in regular service in a major German city. Operates with 750 V = , in 1902 electrified with 600 V = |
BY |
Waching - Wendelstein two sections: Waching - just before Aipl Aipl - Wendelstein (3.5 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 9.9 | S. | 1912 | today | Wendelsteinbahn AG Wendelsteinbahn Adhesion line Brannenburg –Waching (2.3 km) discontinued in 1962, max. 237 ‰ slope Operation with 1500 V = |
BY |
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Zugspitzplatt one section: Grainau - Zugspitzplatt (11.5 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 19.0 | R. | 1930 | today | Bayerische Zugspitzbahn Bergbahn AG Bayerische Zugspitzbahn [1] max. 250 ‰ slope Operation with 1500 V = |
BY |
Erlau - Wegscheid two sections: 1. Obernzell - Untergriesbach (3.8 km) 2. Wildenranna - Wegscheid (2.4 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 20.1 | S. | 1912 | 1965 | Erlau – Wegscheid railway line 1953 Conversion of Pv to friction operation 1965 Cessation of operations after landslide 1973 Obernzell – Wegscheid shutdown 1975 Dismantling |
BY | Kinsau train station - wood material factory one section (0.38 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 3.5 | R. | 1907 | 1929 | Works railway of the paper mill Hegge Kinsauer Zahnradbahn first rack railway in Bavaria 1929 shutdown, route dismantled in 1932 |
HE |
Dillenburg - Wallau one section: Herrnberg– Hirzenhain (≈3.0 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 32.5 | A2 | 1910 | 1923 | Scheldalbahn from 1923 friction operation dismantled today |
HE | Rüdesheim - Niederwald Monument | 1000 | R 1 | 2.3 | R. | 1884 | 1939 | NWB Niederwaldbahn dismantling around 1950 |
HE | Assmannshausen hunting castle | 1000 | R 1 | 1.5 | R. | 1885 | 1917 | NWB dismantling around 1920 |
NI | Silberhütte - Sankt Andreasberg | 1435 | G 1 | 1.7 | A2 | 1913 | 1959 | St. Andreasberger rack railway line dismantled |
NW | Koenigswinter - Petersberg | 1000 | R 1 | 1,795 | R. | 1889 | 1958 | BiS Petersbergbahn railway line dismantled, steepest rack railway in Germany max. 260 ‰ slope |
NW | Königswinter - Drachenfels (Siebengebirge) | 1000 | R 1 | 1.520 | R. | 1883 | today | Up to the Drachenfelsbahn max. 200 ‰ gradient, oldest active cogwheel railway in Germany since 1953 operating with 750 V = |
NW | Barmen - Toelleturm | 1000 | R 2 | 1.6 | R. | 1894 | 1959 | BB Barmer Bergbahn first electrically operated rack railway in Germany. Operation with 600 V = dismantling around 1960 |
NW | Bochum cast steel factory - steel industry | 1435 | G | ? | A2 | 1889 | 1930 | BVG Bochumer Verein Werksbahn section, from 1930 on a different route with adhesion operation |
NW | Gruhlwerk opencast mine | 900 | R. | ? | S. | 1927 | 1949 | RBW factory railway |
NW | Fortuna Nord opencast mine | 900 | R. | ? | S. | 1949 | 1953 | RBW factory railway |
NW |
Herdorf - Grube Kunst one section: (0.2 km) |
850 | G | 2.4 | ? | 1882 | 1926 |
Kunstertalbahn Werkbahn |
RP |
Boppard - Simmern one section: Boppard - Buchholz (6.3 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 52.8 | A2 | 1907 | 1931 | Hunsrückbahn 1931 switched to friction operation |
RP |
Linz am Rhein - Flammersfeld two sections: 1. Kasbach - Kalenborn (≈5.1 km) 2. Elsaff - St. Katharinen (≈3.6 km) |
1435 | G 1 | ? | A2 | 1912 | 1931 | Kasbachtalbahn 1931 Conversion to friction operation 1945 Termination of Mettelshahn – Flammersfeld 1950 Termination of Neustadt (Wied) –Mettelshahn 1960 Termination of Pv Linz (Rhine) –Neustadt (Wied) |
RP |
Brohl - Kempenich one section: Oberzissen - Engeln (5.7 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 24.0 | A2 | 1901 | 1934 | BEG Brohltalbahn 1925 Introduction of friction operation on the steep section in Pv 1934 Changeover to friction operation 1961 Closure of Pv Brohl – Kempenich 1974 Closure of Gv Engeln – Kempenich line Brohl – Engeln is still in operation today, 1977 reopening of PV as Vulkan-Express |
RP | Friedrichssegen , works railway of the Friedrichssegen mine | 1000 | G | ? | R. | 1880 | 1913 | reduced |
SN |
Görlitz - Weißenberg one section: Königshain Wald – Hilbersdorf (≈ 0.9 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 27.7 | A2 | 1904 | 1936 | Görlitzer Kreisbahn railway line dismantled |
ST |
Blankenburg - fir several sections |
1435 | G 1 | 30.3 | A3 | 1885 | 1920 |
Rübelandbahn line in operation, conversion to adhesion operation in 1920 [2] |
ST | Mansfeld , Wolfschacht (progress shaft) | ? | Mansfeld AG Werkbahn, Ouelle: The former underground funiculars of Mansfeld AG ( Memento from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) |
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ST | Mansfeld, Vitztumschacht (Thälmannschacht) | 900 | G | ? | Mansfeld AG Werkbahn, Ouelle: The former underground funiculars of Mansfeld AG ( Memento from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) |
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ST | Mansfeld, Röhrig-Schacht (Thomas-Münzer-Schacht) | ? | Mansfeld AG Werkbahn, Ouelle: The former underground funiculars of Mansfeld AG ( Memento from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) |
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ST | Mansfeld, Bernhard-Koenen-Schacht. | ? | Mansfeld AG Werkbahn, Ouelle: The former underground funiculars of Mansfeld AG ( Memento from September 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) |
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SH | Wedel sugar factory | 800/1300 | G 2 | 0.75 | A2 | 1901 | 1932 | Sugar factory Schulau cogwheel train Sugar factory Schulau Werkbahn, Ouelle: [3] |
TH |
Suhl - Schleusingen one section: Suhl -Neundorf-Suhl-Friedberg (≈2.5 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 15.8 | A2 | 1911 | 1928 | Friedbergbahn out of service |
TH |
Plaue - Schleusingen three sections: 1. Stützerbach - Rennsteig (≈1.5 km) 2. Rennsteig - Schleusingen (≈2.1 km) 3. Schleusingen Ost– Schleusingen (≈1.0 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 51.0 | A2 | 1904 | 1927 | Rennsteigbahn conversion to adhesion operation, PV up to the 1990s, today only occasional traffic. |
TH |
Heiligenstadt – Schwebda two sections: 1. before Fürstenhagen (Eichsfeld) (≈1.2 km) 2. after Fürstenhagen (Eichsfeld) (≈0.5 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 32.1 | A2 | 1914 | 1922 | Heiligenstadt – Schwebda railway line dismantled |
TH | Lehesten slate quarries | 1435 | G | ? | 1885 | 1951 | dismantled [4] |
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TH | Lehesten slate quarries | 690 | G | ? | 1885 | 1951 | dismantled [5] |
Austria
BL | Place, route | Track -wide [mm] |
Tracks | Length [km] |
Height under- difference [m] |
Summit height [ m above sea level Adriatic ] |
largest tilt clothes [‰] |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Operation through | items | Remarks |
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Lower Austria | Puchberg - high snow mountain | 1000 | R 1 | 9.7 | 1219 | 1796 | 196 | A2 | 1897 | today | Lower Austrian Schneebergbahn GmbH (NÖSBB) | Schneebergbahn | commercial operation mainly with diesel trains. Regular nostalgic trains with steam locomotives |
Upper Austria | Trimmel came | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ≈ 1986 | ? | Salzach Coal Mining Society (SAKOG) | Montana cog railway, delivered by Scharf in the late 1980s | |
S. | St. Wolfgang - Schafberg | 1000 | R 1 | 5.9 | 1190 | 1732 | 255 | A2 | 1893 | today | Salzkammergutbahn GmbH (SKGB) | Schafbergbahn | almost exclusively operated with steam locomotives. Parts of the route are in the federal states of Upper Austria and Salzburg |
S. | ( Salzburg -) Parsch - Gaisberg | 1000 | R 1 | 5.3 | 846 | 1275 | 250 | R. | 1887 | 1928 | AG Gaisbergbahn company | Gaisbergbahn | Line dismantled in 1930 |
ST |
Erzberg - Vordernberg seven sections (14.5 km) |
align = "right" | 1435 | G 1 | 20th | 512 | 1204 | 71 | A2 | 1891 | 1978 | Erzbergbahn Association | Erzbergbahn | Today a museum railway, partly in operation as a tourist railway without a rack system |
ST | Montanzahnradbahn on the Styrian Erzberg | 900 | R 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | First electrically operated rack railway in Austria | ||
T |
Jenbach - Achensee 1 section: Jenbach– Eben am Achensee (3.6 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 6.7 | 440 | 970 | 160 | R. | 1889 | today | Achenseebahn AG | Achenseebahn | exclusive operation with steam locomotives |
W. | ( Vienna -) Nussdorf - Kahlenberg | 1435 | R 2 | 4.9 | ? | 483 | ? | R. | 1874 | 1922 | Kahlenberg Railway Company | Kahlenbergbahn | Mainly two-track, plus a single-track section 0.6 km in length, line dismantled |
Switzerland
Great Britain
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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England | ||||||||||||
Leeds - Hunslet | 1435 | 1 | 1.54 | Middleton Railway | ||||||||
Wales | ||||||||||||
Llanberis - Snowdon | 800 | R 1 | 7.4 | 950 | 1085 | 180 | A2 | 1897 | today | Snowdon Mountain Railway |
Belgium
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Ougrée near Liège a section of 400 meters |
1435 | G 2 | 1.0 | 150 | 120 | R. | 1905 | 1928 | SA d'Ougrée Marihaye | Works railway, dismantled in 1948 |
France
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes | ||||||||||||
Panoramique des Dômes Puy de Dôme | 1000 | R. | 5.3 | 724 | 1414 | 155 | S. | 2012 | today | SNC-Lavalin CFTA |
Panoramique des Dômes | New line on the former road, which in turn was on a narrow-gauge railway that existed from 1907 to 1926 |
1st line Étrembières - Monnetier-Mairie - Treize-Arbres ( Mont Salève ) | 1000 | R 1 | 6th | A2 | 1893 | 1937 | SA des Chemins de fer du Salève | Chemin de fer du Salève (CFS) | First electrically operated rack railway in the world; Operation with conductor rail (600 V) from 1932 replaced by aerial cableway |
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2. Veyrier - Monnetier-Mairie line | 1000 | R 1 | 3 | A2 | 1894 | 1932 | SA des Chemins de fer du Salève | Chemin de fer du Salève (CFS) | from 1932 replaced by aerial cableway | |||
Chamonix - Montenvers ( Mer de Glace ) Rack length: 4.8 km |
1000 | R 1 | 5.1 | 1909 | 220 | S. | 1909 | today | Compagnie du Mont-Blanc | Chemin de fer du Montenvers (CM) | electrified with 11 kV 50 Hz alternating current (1953), electric multiple unit since 1954 | |
Le Fayet - Nid d'Aigle Rack length: 10.0 km |
1000 | G 1 | 12.4 | 250 | S. | 1904 | today | Compagnie du Mont-Blanc | Tramway du Mont Blanc (TMB) | electric multiple unit since 1956 | ||
Aix-les-Bains - Mont Revard | 1000 | R 1 | 9.35 | 1236 | 1496 | A2 | 1893 | 1935 | Société Anonyme des Chemins de fer de montagne et régionaux | Chemin de fer du Mont-Revard | Replaced by a cable car in 1937 | |
Lyon (Saint-Jean-Saint-Just) | 1000 | G | A2 | 1900 | 1956 | Saint-Jean – Saint-Just rack railway | Funicular from 1878–1899 and from 1958 | |||||
Lyon , Métro Lyon , line C | 1435 | G | 2,435 | VR | 1974 | today | Funicular railway 1891–1971 | |||||
Chambéry , Ciments Chiron | 600 | G | 5 | 150 | S. | 1912 | 1924 | Stone transport | ||||
Region Grand Est | ||||||||||||
Langres , station town | 1000 | G | 1.47 | 133 | 468 | 172 | R. | 1887 | 1971 | Langres rack railway | Operation from 1935 with 600 V direct current [6] | |
Münster - gorge pass | 1000 | G 1 | 10.8 | 220 | S. | 1907 | 1918 | 750 V DC operation | ||||
Region Hauts-de-France | ||||||||||||
Laon , train station town | 1000 | G 1 | 1.51 | 129 | A2 | 1899 | 1971 | Société du chemin de fer de Laon, later Régie des transports urbains de la ville de Laon | Laon rack railway | Operation with 500 V DC | ||
Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine | ||||||||||||
St Ignace - La Rhune | 1000 | R. | 4.2 | 300 | S. | 1924 | today | Chemin de fer de la Rhune | electrified with three-phase current 3 kV 50 Hz | |||
Occitania region | ||||||||||||
Bagnères-de-Luchon - Superbagnères | 1000 | R. | 5.65 | 1170 (approx.) | 1800 | S. | 1912 | 1966 | "Société des chemins de fer et hôtels de montagne aux Pyrénées" (CFHMP) | Luchon – Superbagnères mountain railway | ||
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | ||||||||||||
Beausoleil - La Turbie | 1000 | R. | R. | 1893 | 1935 | |||||||
Monaco , Monte Carlo | 1000 | G 1 | S. | 1902 | 1914 |
Spain
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Region of Andalusia | ||||||||||||
Granada - Alhambra | 1000 | G | R. | 1907 | 1946 | |||||||
Vélez - Periana | 1000 | G | A2 | 1920 | 1960 | |||||||
Catalonia region | ||||||||||||
Ribes de Freser - Vall de Núria | 1000 | G 1 | 12.5 | 1059 | 1964 | 150 | A2 | 1931 | today | Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya | Cremallera de Núria | 7 km with rack |
Monistrol - Montserrat | 1000 | G * 1 | 5.0 | 550 | 156 | A2 | 1892 2003 |
1957 today |
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya | Cremallera de Montserrat | Operation with 1500 V direct current, * originally a pure rack railway |
Portugal
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Madeira region | |||||||||
Funchal - Monte | 1000 | R. | 1893 | 1943 | Reconstruction is discussed | ||||
North region | |||||||||
Porto , Vila Nova de Gaia | 1676 | R. | 1891 | 1___ | Source: The locomotive 198/1907 |
Italy
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia | |||||||||
Trieste - Opicina 1 section: Piazza Scorcola – Vetta Scorcola (0.9 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 5 | S. | 1902 | 1928 | Trieste Trasporti SpA (TT) | Trieste – Opicina railway line | Bahn still exists today; The steep section was converted into a funicular in 1928 |
Trieste , works railway of the shipyard Cantieri Riuniti, Stabilimento Tecnico in the port of Trieste | 1435 | G | R. | 1926 | 1966 | ||||
Regions of Calabria and Basilicata | |||||||||
Cosenza - Catanzaro 1 section: Catanzaro Pratica – Catanzaro Sala (2.0 km) |
950 | G 1 | 112.5 | S. | 1933 | today | Ferrovie della Calabria (FC) | Cosenza – Catanzaro railway line | First steam operation, from 1981 railcars pushed by gear tractors, since the 1990s diesel railcars with adhesion and gear drive |
Paola - Cosenza 3 sections |
1435 | G 1 | 35 | S. | 1915 | 1987 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Paola – Cosenza railway line | Railway line shut down and replaced by a new line |
Spezzano Albanese - Lagonegro 3 sections (almost 6 km) |
950 | G 1 | 104.7 | S. | 1915 | 1970 | Ferrovie Calabro Lucane (FCL) | Lagonegro – Spezzano Albanese railway line | Railway line in operation from 1915 to 1952, the last section discontinued in 1978 |
Campania region | |||||||||
Pugliano - Vesuvio Interferiore 1 section: Centrale Elettrica - Osservatorio Eremo (1.6 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 7.7 | S. | 19__ | 19__ | Società Ferrovia e Funicolare Vesuviana (SFFV) | Railway line in operation from 1912 to 1955 | |
Liguria region | |||||||||
Genoa , Principe – Granarolo | 1200 | R 1 | 1.1 | R. | 1901 | today | Azienda Mobilità e Trasporti Genova (AMT) | Principe – Granarolo rack railway | |
region Piedmont | |||||||||
Stresa - Mottarone 4 sections: 1. Stresa - Vedasco -Binda (1.8 km) 2. Vezzo - Gignese - Levo (1.9 km) 3. Gignese - Levo –Alpino (1.0 km) 4. Alpino– Mottarone (4.5 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 9.8 | A2 | 1963 | Ferrovia Stresa-Mottarone (FSM) | Railway line in operation from 1911 to 1963 | ||
Turin , Sassi - Superga | 1445 | R 1 | 3.1 | S. | 1935 | today | Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT) | Tranvia a dentiera Sassi-Superga | Operated as a funicular system Agudio from 1884 to 1934 , converted to a cogwheel railway after the rope ruptured and reopened in 1935 , operated by conductor rail (600 V) |
Sicily region | |||||||||
Filaga– Palazzo Adriano 1 section: Prizzi –Sosio (4.5 km) |
950 | G 1 | 13.8 | S. | 1918/20 | 1959 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Filaga-Palazzo Adriano | |
Dittaino– Leonforte 1 section: Cavalcatore– Assoro (≈6.0 km) |
950 | G 1 | 14.7 | S. | 1918/23 | 1959 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Dittaino – Leonforte | |
Dittaino– Caltagirone 1 section: Mulinello – Valguamera (≈5.5 km) |
950 | G 1 | 71.2 | S. | 1912/30 | 1969/71 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Dittaino – Caltagirone | |
Lercara – Magazzolo 1 section: Contuberna – San Stefano Quisquina (3.4 km) |
950 | G 1 | 66.9 | S. | 1912/24 | 1959 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Lercara Magazzolo | |
Agrigento - Licata 6 sections on the Agrigento– Palma di Montechiaro section (10.8 of 43.8 km) |
950 | G 1 | 63.8 | S. | 1915/21 | 1958 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Agrigento-Licata | |
Tuscany region | |||||||||
Saline di Volterra - Volterra 1 section: Saline – Volterra (≈4.2 km) |
1435 | G 1 | 7.9 | S. | 1912 | 1958 | Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) | Cecina – Volterra railway line | Railway line shut down |
Reggello - Sant'Ellero - Reggello - Saltino (Reggello) 1 section: Sant'Ellero – Saltino (8.2 km) |
800? | R 1 | 8.2 | Telfener | Ferrovia a Cremagliera S.Ellero-Saltino (Vallombrosa) (FCS) | Railway line shut down | |||
Region Trentino-Alto Adige | |||||||||
Bozen - Klobenstein 1 section: Bozen Rittner Bf - Maria Himmelfahrt (4.2 km) |
1000 | G 1 | 11.8 | S. | 1907 | 1966 | SAD local transport |
Renon Railway (Ferrovia del Renon) |
Replacement by cable car, adhesion section still in operation |
region Veneto | |||||||||
Rocchette - Asiago 1 section: Cogollo - Campiello (5.8 km) |
950 | G 1 | 21.2 | S. | 1910 | 1958 | Società Veneta (SV) | Rocchette – Asiago rack railway |
Greece
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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West Greece region | ||||||||||||
Diakopto - Kalavrita | 750 | G 1 | 22.3 | 702 | 712 | 140 | A2 | 1896 | today | EYELET | Odontotos | in operation again since summer 2009 after renewing the route and rolling stock |
Eastern Central Europe
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Poland | ||||||||||||
Srebrna Góra (Silberberg) - Nowa Wieś Kłodzka (Neudorf) Rack length: 3.8 km |
1435 | G | 6.6 | 513 | A2 | 1902 | 1931 | Owl mountain railway |
Owl Mountain Railway | |||
Warsaw , Belweder - Plac Unii Lubelskiej | 800 | G | A2 | 1902 | 1915 | Wilanower Bahn | ||||||
Czech Republic | ||||||||||||
Tanvald - Kořenov Rack length: 5.5 km |
1435 | G 1 | 6.9 | 235 | 701 | 56 | A2 | 1902 | today | CD | Tannwalder rack railway | Cog railway traffic only on public holidays |
Karlový Vary - Tři kříže (Karlsbad - Dreikreuzberg) | 62 | 440 | 500 | P | Nedostavěná dráha na Tři kříže rack railway to the Three Cross Mountain in Karlovy Vary | The construction of the railway line planned with the "Peter" system was started, but was never completed because of the First World War. | ||||||
Slovakia | ||||||||||||
Žakarovce - Mariánská hat | 1000 | G | 4.0 | R. | 1884 | 1899 | Žakarovce rack railway | Ore railway; replaced by cable car | ||||
Štrba - Štrbské Pleso | 1000 | R. | 4.8 | 430 | 1235 | 150 | R. | 1896 | 1932 | Štrba – Štrbské Pleso rack railway | Dismantled in 1940, reopened in 1969 | |
430 | 1235 | 150 | VR | 1969 | today | ŽSR | Rebuilt in the 1960s with Swiss technology, operated with electric multiple units | |||||
Pohronská Polhora - Tisovec Rack length: 5.8 km |
1435 | G 1 | 42.0 | 108 | 725 | 50 | A2 | 1896 | 1965 | Pohronská Polhora - Tisovec rack railway | Cogwheel operation ended in 1965, then adhesion operation. If the adhesion business continued, the gear wheel operation was resumed as occasional traffic for tourist purposes in autumn 2014. | |
Krompachy , Eisenwerk Rack length: 0.3 km |
1435 | G | 1.3 | A2 | 1896 | 1922 | Hernader Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft | Factory track | ||||
Bosnia Herzegovina | ||||||||||||
Ivan Pass ( Sarajevo - Konjic ) Rack length: 19.5 km |
760 | G 1 | 55.9 | 597 | 876 | 60 | A2 | 1891 | 1966 | BHStB , then JŽ | Narenta Railway | Route length shortened in 1935 |
Komar Pass ( Travnik - Bugojno ) Rack length: 6.3 km |
760 | G 1 | 40.7 | 268 | 780 | 45 | A2 | 1894 | 1975 | BHStB, then JŽ | Lašva – Donji Vakuf – Gornji Vakuf / Jajce railway line | |
Hungary | ||||||||||||
Budapest , Varosmajor - Széchenyihegy | 1435 | R 1 | 3.8 | 260 | 150 | R. | 1874 | 1973 | Schwabenbergbahn (Budapesti Fogaskerekű Vasút) | Third rack railway in the world, electrical operation from 1929, renovation 1973 | ||
150 | S. | 1973 | today | |||||||||
Salgótarján - Rimamurány rack length : 0.2 km |
635 | G | 3.2 | A2 | 1895 | 1957 | Rimamurány ironworks in Salgótarján | |||||
Steel mill Ózd Rack length: 0.7 km |
1435 | G | 3.0 | A2 | 1906 | ? | Werkbahn, from 1964 diesel locomotives | |||||
Romania | ||||||||||||
Caransebeş (Karánsebes) - Hațeg (Hátszeg) Rack length: 5.0 km |
1435 | G | 75.0 | 692 | 50 | A2 | 1907 | 1978 | Caransebeş – Bouțari – Subcetate railway line |
Rack railways in Africa
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Angola | |||||||||
Lengue - San Pedro | 1067 | R. | 1909 | 1948 | Benguela Railway |
Hefti, rack railways of the world, specifies the completion date 1905/1906. |
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South Africa | |||||||||
Waterval Onder - Waterval Boven ( Mpumalanga Province ) | 1067 | 1 | 3.5 | R. | 1896 | 1908 | NZASM , CSAR | Delagoa Railway | The locomotives were delivered by the Esslingen machine factory to the Nederlandsch-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg Maatschappij (NZASM) |
Rack railways in North and Central America
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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United States | ||||||||||||
State of Colorado | ||||||||||||
Manitou Springs , Pikes Peak | 1435 | R. | 15.0 | 2245 | 4260 | 250 | A2 | 1891 | today | Pike's Peak Cog Railway | Steam, diesel since 1949, diesel multiple units since 1963, temporarily discontinued in 2017 | |
State of Maine | ||||||||||||
Bar Harbor - Green Mountain (now Cadillac Mountain ) | 1422 | 1.83 | 1883 | 1890 | Green Mountain Railway | |||||||
State of Michigan | ||||||||||||
Hancock | 1435 | 0.8 | 1997 | Quincy and Torch Lake Cog Railway | ||||||||
State of New Hampshire | ||||||||||||
Mount Washington | 1431 | R. | 4.5 | 1093 | 1918 | 377 | Marsh | 1869 | today | Mount Washington Cog Railway | Steam operation, since 2008/10 mostly diesel operation | |
State of Ohio | ||||||||||||
Madison, Ohio - Indianapolis Rack length: 1.4 miles |
1435 | G | 3.2 | 130 | 61 | Cathcart | 1847 | 1868 | ||||
Panama | ||||||||||||
Panama , Panama Canal Rack length: 18 km |
1524 | 2 G | 29 | 500 | R. | 1912 | today | Towing railway; steepest factory cog railway in the world max. 50% gradient ( Gatun lock ) | ||||
Mexico | ||||||||||||
Compañía Minera de Peñoles, Mapimí - Ojuela Mine Railway | A. | 1896 | ? | |||||||||
Santo Domingo | ||||||||||||
Puerto Plata - Bajabonico | 765 | G | A2 | 1895 | ? |
Rack railways in South America
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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Brazil | ||||||||||||
State of Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||
Rio de Janeiro - Corcovado | 1000 | R 1 | 3.8 | 640 | 680 | 300 | R. | 1884 | today | Corcovado mountain railway | Operation from 1910 with three-phase current | |
(Rio de Janeiro) - Vila Inhomirim - Petrópolis | 1000 | R. | 8.8 | R. | 1883 | Petropolis Railway | pure rack railway (propulsion only with rack). Recommissioning is being studied in various official and political structures, the basic idea with direct trains from Rio, discontinued in 1965 | |||||
(Rio de Janeiro) - Guapimirim - Teresópolis | 1000 | R. | 9.3 | R. | 1908 | Teresópolis Railway | set in 1957 | |||||
State of São Paulo | ||||||||||||
Raiz da Serra - Paranapiacaba | 1600 | G | 8.064 | A3 | 1974 | today | MRS | Railway Santos – Jundiaí | Conversion from the Serra Incline funicular , replaces the previous systems "Old Serra Incline" and "New Serra Incline", section Santos - São Paulo railway, operation with 3000 V direct current. In 2010, seven new 5 MW locomotives were ordered from Stadler Rail , which went into operation from 2013. | |||
Chile | ||||||||||||
Los Andes (Chile) - Mendoza (Argentina) Rack length: 130 km |
1000 | G | 248 | 2413 | 3186 | 80 | A3 | 1910 | 1980? | Ferrocarril Transandino | Transand Railway | discontinued, route partially preserved, new building without rack. |
Arica (Chile) –La Paz (Bolivia) Rack length : 39 km |
1000 | G | 418 | 4235 | 4255 | 60 | A2 | 1913 | Ferrocarril Arica La Paz | Operation since 1968 mainly without a rack. | ||
Venezuela | ||||||||||||
Puerto Cabello - Valencia | 1067 | R. | 3.8 | A3 | 1886 | circa 1955 | Status unknown |
Rack railways in Asia
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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India | ||||||||||||
Mettupalayam - Ooty one section: Kallar - Coonoor 19.3 km |
1000 | G | 46 | 80 | A2 | 1898 | today | Nilgiri Mountain Railway | also known as the Ooty-Line; still in operation with steam locomotives from SLM , Note: Josef Hons writes of 64.8 km operating length |
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Indonesia | ||||||||||||
Ambarawa - Bedono | 1067 | 1907 | Ambarawa Rack Railway | two cogwheel steam locomotives are no longer parked in the Ambarawa Railway Museum | ||||||||
Sawah - Loento | 600 | A2 | 1907 | |||||||||
Padang - Bukittinggi / Sawahlunto Rack length : originally 23 km |
1067 | G | 179.5 | 733 earlier 1154 |
731 earlier 1152 |
70 before 80 |
R. | 1889 | partly | Kereta Api Indonesia | Padang – Bukittinggi / Sawahlunto railway line | ; formerly a coal railway, now a tourist railway; Wing section Padang Panjang – Bukittinggi discontinued |
Japan | ||||||||||||
Yokokawa - Karuizawa or Takasaki - Noetsu ? Rack length: 8.5 km |
1067 | G | 11.0 | 941 | 67 | A3 | 1893 | 1963 | Usui - Toge Railway | Usui pass | Steam, electric from 1912 | |
Abbot Ichishiro - Nagashima Dam | 1067 | G | 25.5 | 90 | A3 | 1990 | Ōigawa Tetsudō | Ikawa line | ||||
Pakistan | ||||||||||||
Sibi - Bostan rack length: 11.3 km |
1676 | 20.1 | 1800 | 60 | A3 | 1887 | Bolanbahn | |||||
Vietnam | ||||||||||||
Krong-Pha - Dalat rack length: 12.5 km |
1000 | G | 42.5 | 1500 | 125 | A2 | 1927 | 1975 | Tháp Chàm – Đà Lạt railway line | Adhesion section in operation as a tourist railway. Reconstruction of the entire route under discussion | ||
Lebanon, Syria | ||||||||||||
Beirut - Damascus Rack length: 32 km |
1050 | G | 147 | 1486 | 1486 | 70 | A2 | 1894 | Lebanon Railway | An adhesion section in Syria was still preserved as a tourist railway in 2007 | ||
Siberia (Russia) | ||||||||||||
Ship lift near Divnogorsk | 9000 | R 1 |
approx. 2 | similar Perforator |
1976 | today | Krasnoyarsk Power Plant | transports ships up to 1500 t, overcomes 118 m height difference, turntable at the apex, power supply via catenary, two toothed racks are mounted next to each track |
Rack railways in Australia
Place, route | Track wide mm |
G l e i s e |
Length km |
Height under arbitration in meters |
Summit height in meters |
greatest slope in ‰ |
system | Toothed wheel of |
Toothed wheel up |
Working drove through |
items | Remarks |
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State of New South Wales | ||||||||||||
Snowy Mountains , Bullocks Flat - Perisher Valley - Blue Cow | 1435 | R. | 8.5 | 775 | 1900 | 127 | S, VR | 1987 | today | Ski tube | electrified with 1500 V direct current, 5 km in the tunnel | |
State of Queensland | ||||||||||||
Mount Morgan | 1067 | A2 | 1898 | 195_ | Factory track, dismantled | |||||||
Tasmania State | ||||||||||||
Queenstown - Strahan | 1067 | G 1 | 34.5 | 66 | A2 | 1896 2003 |
1963 today |
West Coast Wilderness Railway | Reopened in 2003 |
literature
- Cyrill Seifert: Cog railways of the world , transpress, Stuttgart, 2020
- Wolfgang Messerschmidt: Rack railways, yesterday, today, all over the world. The history of the rack railways , Franckh, Stuttgart 1972 ISBN 3-440-03833-5
- Walter Hefti : The world's rack railways. Birkhäuser, Basel 1971, ISBN 3-7643-0550-9 .
- Walter Hefti: The world's rack railways. Addendum. Birkhäuser, Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0797-8 .
- The locomotive , specialist magazine for railway technicians. Various editions. Vienna 1904–1948 (Berlin 1938–1944).
- Thomas Fleißig: Rack railways in Austria. Railway picture archive. EK, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-88255-349-9 .
- Arthur Meyer, Josef Pospichal: Rack railway locomotives from Floridsdorf , Verlag bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503304-0-3
- Klaus Fader: Cog railways in the Alps. 19 mountain railways in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. Franckh-Kosmos , Stuttgart / Ott, Thun 1996, ISBN 3-440-06880-3 / ISBN 3-7225-6346-1 (Ott); Tosa, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85492-791-6 .
- Werner Latscha (Ed.): Seven mountain railway pioneers (= Swiss pioneers of economy and technology . No. 81). Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-909059-34-8 .
- Josef Hons: Bergbahnen der Welt , transpress Verlag, Berlin 1990 ISBN 3-344-00475-1
Web links
Commons : Cog Railway - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Twenty-five year anniversary of the System Dept. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 50 (1907), issue 10 (E-Periodica.ch, PDF; 0.4 MB).
- ^ S. Abbot: The new unified friction and tooth path system Peter. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 71 (1918), issue 1 (E-Periodica.ch, PDF; 2.8 MB) and volume 71 (1918), issue 2 (PDF; 2.6 MB).
- ↑ 1C comb. Four-cylinder composite adhesion and rack-and-pinion locomotive for Port. West Africa. In: Die Lokomotive , 1909, S. 60 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online )
- ^ Across Africa By Rail. In: Mike's Railway History (English)
- ^ George E. Hoke: The Railroads of the Compañía Minera de Peñoles. In: mexlist.com. 2006, accessed April 23, 2020 .
- ↑ A Heavy Grade . In: Locomotive Engineering Magazine . April 1900 (English).
- ↑ The locomotive, page 234/1915
- ^ Santo Domingo, A country with a future, Otto Schoenrich, 1918
- ↑ A. Kuntze: State railway on the west coast of Sumatra. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . Volume 17 (1891), issue 18 (E-Periodica.ch, PDF; 3.2 MB).
- ↑ Exit from Abbot Ichishiro with Abbot rack Photo in Wikimedia, December 16, 2007