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Longer titles found: List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways (view)

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Servoz (223 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between Les Houches and Servoz holds the world record gradient for an adhesion railway at a 9% gradient over a distance of 2,000 m (6,562 ft). On average

Bernina Pass (426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lower 2,253 metres (7,392 ft) (at Ospizio Bernina) – it is the highest adhesion railway route in Europe. Lago Bianco, Lej Nair and Lej Pitschen are located

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the northern end of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. The network is an adhesion railway but using Abt rack assistance on the steeper inclines. Between Realp

Transandine Railway (1,630 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge combined rack (Abt system) and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain

Bernese Oberland Railway (2,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from Interlaken. The railway is rack assisted (that is although an adhesion railway, rack and pinion operation is used on steep sections of the line to

Argentine Central Railway (1,251 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

later disproved. It remains the highest altitude reached by a regular adhesion railway (as opposed to a rack railway) in the United States. The line was steeply

Flåm Line (4,860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

kilometers (11.2 mi) long. Most of the railway would be built as an adhesion railway with a 2.5 percent gradient, although part of it would be a rack railway

Val Poschiavo (346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the narrow-gauge Rhaetian Railway, it is the highest-elevation adhesion railway route in Europe and together with the Albula Railway a UNESCO World

Schneeberg Railway (cog railway) (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

use until 1978, when the route was electrified and converted into an adhesion railway. In 1980, despite public protest and a petition, the rack was completely

Chemin de fer du Montenvers (368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and has a track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in). It is a rack and adhesion railway, using the Strub rack system to overcome a height difference of 871 m

Mont Blanc tramway (714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and has a rail gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in). It is a rack and adhesion railway, using the Strub design to overcome a height difference of 1,792 m

Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway (872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

les Houches is 9% over 2,000 m (6,561 ft 8+3⁄16 in), a record for an adhesion railway. On the steepest sections (4% and more), it had a central rail for

Les Houches (989 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from Les Houches to Servos holds the world record gradient for an adhesion railway at a 9% gradient over a distance of 2,000 m (6,562 ft). On average

Chamonix (2,152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

line holds the record for the steepest gradient on any standard (adhesion) railway. There are 10 stations on this line within the commune of Chamonix:

Donausteig (Danube Trail) (1,894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

hill in the old town of Linz Pöstlingbergbahn in Linz, the longest adhesion railway in Europe Burg Clam in the Perg district in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel:

Karl Gustav Brescius (320 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Plauenscher Grund and the Gittersee plateau, with inclines of 1:40 on an adhesion railway and with curves of as little as 85 m radius on a standard gauge main

Trams in Linz (1,255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the steepest adhesion tram lines in the world and the steepest adhesion railway in Austria. A special feature of the network are the level crossings

Albula railway line (2,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

maximising its effectiveness, did not test the technical bounds of an adhesion railway. However, such an architectural style required a variety of engineering

Bavarian Zugspitze Railway (904 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

line. The lower section from Garmisch to Eibsee is operated as an adhesion railway with rack assistance (i.e. using a cog-wheel system) from Grainau to

Stuttgart Rack Railway (1,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the rack railway's Degerloch station, the connecting track to the adhesion railway was lifted and the rack railway became isolated from the rest of the

Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway (3,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

required an average gradient of 1 in 22, which was not suitable for an adhesion railway. The railway was laid at an average gradient of 1 in 35 to a point

American Fork Railroad (1,116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in places unusually steep: on the steepest slopes it climbed as an adhesion railway with a grade of 5.6% – a difference in altitude of 296 feet per mile

Arth–Rigi railway line (813 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gauge line began in Art on the shores of Lake Zug. This ran as an adhesion railway to the Goldau station. It was separated from the rack railway in 1881

Rorschach–Heiden railway (1,000 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

connection to the village of Heiden began in 1871. Early plans for an adhesion railway were soon discarded in favour of a rack-and-pinion line to Rorschach

Mount Morgan, Queensland (4,310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Australia. The rack portion of the line was replaced by a conventional adhesion railway in the 1950s, with a small portion of track retained at the town centre

Mount Morgan, Queensland (4,310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Australia. The rack portion of the line was replaced by a conventional adhesion railway in the 1950s, with a small portion of track retained at the town centre

Rail transport in Switzerland (3,845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

old funicular railway, which was replaced in 2006), the second an adhesion railway. The Chemin de fer Martigny–Châtelard (MC) is 19 km long, with one

Trams in Geneva (2,148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

For nearly three months in 1904, the CGTE also operated the steepest adhesion railway in Switzerland. The incline reached 11.8%, but the dangers posed by

Hunsrück Railway (1,475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Hunsrück Railway from Boppard to Emmelshausen is the steepest adhesion railway in western Germany. On the six-kilometre section from Boppard to Boppard-Buchholz

British industrial narrow-gauge railways (1,409 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contract 1988 1992 3 ft (914 mm) Dover, England Extensive rack and adhesion railway used in the construction of the Channel Tunnel. Lochaber Narrow Gauge

Chur–Arosa railway line (4,915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the financing of the Wildberger proposal, which provided for a pure adhesion railway with a maximum of 6.0% grade. In March 1910, negotiations were conducted