List of highest railways by country

This is a list of the highest railways by country. It includes the name of the railway, its highest point and highest elevation and its opening year.

List

Country Railway line Highest point Highest elevation Opened
ChinaXining-Golmud-LhasaTanggula5,068 m (16,627 ft)[1]2006
PeruLima-HuancayoTiclio4,829 m (15,843 ft)[2][3]1893
BoliviaRio Mulatos-PotosíCóndor4,786 m (15,702 ft) 
United StatesManitou and Pike's Peak RailwayPikes Peak Summit4,301 m (14,111 ft)[4]1891
Argentina Salta–Antofagasta Viaducto La Polvorilla 4,220 m (13,845 ft) 1948
Ecuador Quito-Guayaquil Urbina 3,609 m (11,841 ft) 1908
China Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway Qilianshan No.2 Tunnel 3,608 m (11,837 ft) 2014
 SwitzerlandJungfrau RailwayJungfraujoch3,454 m (11,332 ft)[5]1912
KenyaUganda RailwayBaringo County2,785 m (9,137 ft)1930
GermanyBavarian Zugspitze Railway[6]Schneefernerhaus2,650 m (8,694 ft)1930
TaiwanAlishan Forest RailwayChushan2,451 m (8,041 ft)1986
FranceTramway du Mont-BlancRefuge-du-Nid-d'Aigle2,412 m (7,913 ft)[7]1909[note 1]
EritreaMassawa–Asmara RailwayAsmara2,394 m (7,854 ft)1911
EthiopiaAddis Ababa–Djibouti RailwayAddis Ababa2,293 m (7,523 ft)2018
IndiaDarjeeling Himalayan RailwayGhum2,257 m (7,405 ft)1880
Pakistan Zhob Valley Railway Kan Mehtarzai Railway Station 2,224 m (7,297 ft) 1921
SpainVall de Núria[8]Vall de Núria Rack Railway1,968 m (6,457 ft) 1931
AustraliaSkitubeBullock Terminal1,905 m (6,250 ft)1987
Sri LankaMain Line (Sri Lanka)Pattipola1,892 m (6,207 ft)[9][10]1894
AustriaSchneeberg Railway[11]Hochschneeberg1,792 m (5,879 ft)1897
GeorgiaBorjomi-BakurianiBakuriani1,650 m (5,413 ft)1902
ItalyBrenner Line[12]Brenner1,371 m (4,498 ft)1867
SlovakiaTatra Electric RailwayŠtrbské Pleso1,350 m (4,429 ft)1896
JapanKoumi LineNobeyama1,346 m (4,416 ft)1935
CanadaCanadian Pacific Railway Mountain SubdivisionRogers Pass1,330 m (4,364 ft)1889
RussiaBaikal-Amur MainlineMururin Pass1,323 m (4,341 ft)1984
BulgariaSeptemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line[13]Avramovo1,267 m (4,157 ft)1939
NorwayBergen LineFinse1,222 m (4,009 ft)[14]1908
United KingdomSnowdon Mountain RailwaySummit1,065 m (3,494 ft)1896
Czech RepublicStrakonice-Volary lineKubova Huť997 m (3,271 ft)1893
South KoreaTaebaek LineChujeon901 m (2,956 ft)[15]1973
Poland Izera railway Szklarska Poręba (Jakuszyce) 886 m (2,907 ft)[16] 1902
PortugalLinha do TuaRossas railway station849 m (2,785 ft)[17]1906[note 2][note 3]
IndonesiaPadalarang-KasugihanNagreg848 m (2,782 ft)1890
New ZealandNorth Island Main TrunkWaiouru832 m (2,730 ft)1908
SloveniaLjubljana–Trieste[18][19]Postojna Gate610 m (2,001 ft)1856
SwedenMittbanan[20]Near Storlien601 m (1,972 ft)
LiechtensteinFeldkirch–Buchs[21]Near Schaanwald452 m (1,483 ft)1872
IrelandMallow–Tralee line[22]Near Rathmore150 m (492 ft)1853

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Terminus extended from 2,372 m (7,782 ft) to 2,412 m (7,913 ft) in 2026.
  2. ↑ Opening year of the highest-point stretch; the opening year of the railway's first stretch was 1887.
  3. ↑ Highest-point stretch closed in 1992; railway fully closed in 2008.

References

  1. ↑ "World's highest railway station enters key construction period". Canada Tibet Committee. July 28, 2005. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  2. ↑ Bennett, Suzy (October 2003). "A train journey through the Peruvian Andes". Wanderlust. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Our Train - The Highest in the World". Incas del Peru. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway. "Along The Route". Pikes Peak Cog Railway. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ Jungfraubahnen. "Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe". Jungfrau Ski Region. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  6. ↑ Ride the Zugspitzbahn rack railway up Germany's highest mountain
  7. ↑ "« Le train le plus haut de France a battu son propre record » : comment le Tramway du Mont-Blanc s'ouvre à un nouveau public".
  8. ↑ Insight Guides Great Railway Journeys of Europe, Spain's highest station. ["Núria is the highest station in Spain"]
  9. ↑ "Top 10 highest train stations in Sri Lanka". Train Journey to the Green Zone in Sri Lanka. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  10. ↑ "Pattipola Railway Station of Sri Lanka". SariSara Sri Lanka. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  11. ↑ Station Puchberg am Schneeberg, lower-austria.info. ["Fans of nostalgia can be transported in around 40 minutes by the Schneebergbahn to Austria's highest railway station"]
  12. ↑ SULMONA, AQ, ABRUZZO, magazine.dooid.it. ["At the Rivisondoli-Pescocostanzo station, the line reaches 1268 m above sea level making it the highest station on the Italian FS network after the Brenner Pass."]
  13. ↑ The Most Beautiful Train Journeys in Bulgaria, theculturetrip.com. ["It runs through three mountains and stops at the highest railway station in the Balkan Peninsula, Avramovo Station."]
  14. ↑ "Finse Railway Station Webcam – The Highest Station in Norway". Camscape. October 13, 2012. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  15. ↑ Korea Tourism Organization. "Chujeon Station". Visit Korea. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  16. ↑ "Najwyższa linia kolejowa w Polsce - Szklarska Poręba". www.szklarskaporeba.pl. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  17. ↑ Esteves, João Sena; Ramos, Luís; Nóbrega, João Miguel; Souto, António Pedro; Sepúlveda, Manuel João (2012). "Gaining Insight into Tua Railway Line through Interactive Experiments" (PDF). Railroads in Historical Contexts. 2. Universidade do Minho: 360. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  18. ↑ Retrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system. The highest point on the line is north of Postojna railway station, at the Postojna Gate
  19. ↑ "Rail network". slo-zeleznice.si. Slovenian Railways. Retrieved 30 April 2021. Station located at the highest point above sea level: Postojna station at 582m
  20. ↑ "Banverkets årsredovisning 2009" (PDF) (in Swedish). Banverket. 2009. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  21. ↑ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic map (only line in Liechtenstein)
  22. ↑ Retrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system
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