VALL DE NÚRIA RACK RAILWAY
Trains in Núria's station
Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut.
Traveler's collection.
El cajón del viajero ~ El calaix del viatger ~ Le tiroir du voyageur ~ Il cassetto del viaggiatore
Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut.
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Postcard by Photoblog, Zürich, Nº 3351.
Posted at Rigi-Kulm on 31.10.1911, sent to France.
The Rigibahn was Europe's first rack railway. It was designed by the Swiss engineer Niklaus Riggenbach and was built in two stages between 1870 and 1875. It was electrified between 1928 and 1937. The rolling stock was modernised several times, most recently between 1967 and 1982.
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Commemorative postcard.
Associació Amics del Cremallera de Montserrat
Quart aniversari, 15 juliol 1995 - 15 juliol 1999
[Montserrat Friends of the Rack railway Association
Fourth Anniversary, 15 July 1995 - 15 July 1999]
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Postcard published by C.A.P. Nº 1275.
The Montenvers Railway or Chemin de fer du Montenvers is a rack railway line in the Haute-Savoie department of France. The line runs from a connection with the SNCF, in Chamonix, to the Hotel de Montenvers station, at the Mer de Glace, at an altitude of 1,913 m (6,276 ft).The line is 5.1 km (3.2 mi) long. It is a rack and adhesion railway to overcome a height difference of 871 m (2,858 ft). The first section of the line was opened in 1908 and the line was completed in 1909.The trains originally were drawn by steam locomotives built by SLM (Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works) who supplied six 2-4-2T locomotives between 1908 and 1923. By 1953 the line was electrified.
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Old photo.
Collection of Joan Bta. Perich i Adrià.
The Montserrat Rack Railway (Cremallera de Montserrat) is a mountain railway line that runs from the Monistrol de Montserrat station to the Montserrat monastery, at the top of the mountain, with an intermediate station at Monistrol Vila. The line is 5 km (3.1 mi) long and has a track width of 1,000 mm. It was inaugurated in 1892, closed on 12 May 1957 and reopened on 6 June 2003.
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Postcard published by Verlag Alfred Gründler, Salzburg, S 469.
Foto Cosy.
The Schafbergbahn is a meter gauge rack railway in Austria. It runs between St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee in the Salzkammergut (542 m above sea level) and Schafberg (1782 m above sea level). The valley station is located in Upper Austria, the mountain station in the state of Salzburg. On 1 August 1893, the first section was inaugurated as a local railway, conceived as a “cog train.” Due to financial difficulties, the Schafbergbahn was sold in 1932 to the Austrian Transport Office. In 1938 he moved to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and, after World War II, to the ÖBB.
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