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
China Xining-Golmud-Lhasa Tanggula 5,068 m (16,627 ft)[ 1]
2006
Peru Lima-Huancayo Ticlio 4,829 m (15,843 ft)[ 2] [ 3]
1893
Bolivia Rio Mulatos-Potosí Cóndor 4,786 m (15,702 ft)
USA Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Pikes Peak Summit
4,301 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
Switzerland Jungfrau Railway Jungfraujoch 3,454 m (11,332 ft)[ 5]
1912
Kenya Uganda Railway Baringo County 2,785 m (9,137 ft)
1930
Germany Bavarian Zugspitze Railway [ 6] Schneefernerhaus 2,650 m (8,694 ft)
1930
Taiwan Alishan Forest Railway Chushan
2,451 m (8,041 ft)
1986
Eritrea Massawa–Asmara Railway Asmara 2,394 m (7,854 ft)
1911
France Tramway du Mont-Blanc [ 7] Nid d'aigle de Bionnassay
2,380 m (7,808 ft)
1909
Ethiopia Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway Addis Ababa 2,293 m (7,523 ft)
2018
India Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Ghum 2,257 m (7,405 ft)
1880
Spain Vall de Núria [ 8] Vall de Núria Rack Railway 1,968 m (6,457 ft)
1931
Australia Skitube Bullock Terminal
1,905 m (6,250 ft)
1987
Sri Lanka Main Line (Sri Lanka) Pattipola 1,892 m (6,207 ft)[ 9] [ 10]
1894
Austria Schneeberg Railway [ 11] Hochschneeberg 1,792 m (5,879 ft)
1897
Georgia Borjomi-Bakuriani Bakuriani 1,650 m (5,413 ft)
1902
Italy Brenner Line [ 12] Brenner 1,371 m (4,498 ft)
1867
Slovakia Tatra Electric Railway Štrbské Pleso 1,350 m (4,429 ft)
1896
Japan Koumi Line Nobeyama 1,346 m (4,416 ft)
1935
Canada Canadian Pacific Railway Mountain SubdivisionRogers Pass 1,330 m (4,364 ft)
1889
Russia Baikal-Amur Mainline Mururin Pass [ru ] 1,323 m (4,341 ft)
1984
Bulgaria Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line [ 13] Avramovo
1,267 m (4,157 ft)
1939
Norway Bergen Line Finse 1,222 m (4,009 ft)[ 14]
1908
United Kingdom Snowdon Mountain Railway Snowdon Summit
1,065 m (3,494 ft)
1896
Czech Republic Strakonice-Volary line
Kubova Huť 997 m (3,271 ft)
1893
South Korea Taebaek Line Chujeon
901 m (2,956 ft)[ 15]
1973
Poland
Izera railway
Szklarska Poręba (Jakuszyce )
886 m (2,907 ft)[ 16]
1902
Portugal Linha do Tua Rossas railway station 849 m (2,785 ft)[ 17]
1906[ note 1] [ note 2]
Indonesia Padalarang-Kasugihan
Nagreg
848 m (2,782 ft)
1890
New Zealand North Island Main Trunk Waiouru 832 m (2,730 ft)
1908
Slovenia Ljubljana–Trieste [ 18] [ 19] Postojna Gate 610 m (2,001 ft)
1856
Sweden Mittbanan [ 20] Near Storlien
601 m (1,972 ft)
Liechtenstein Feldkirch–Buchs [ 21] Near Schaanwald
452 m (1,483 ft)
1872
Ireland Mallow–Tralee line [ 22] Near Rathmore
150 m (492 ft)
1853
See also
Notes
^ Opening year of the highest-point stretch; the opening year of the railway's first stretch was 1887.
^ Highest-point stretch closed in 1992; railway fully closed in 2008.
References
^ "World's highest railway station enters key construction period" . Canada Tibet Committee . July 28, 2005. Retrieved December 6, 2012 .^ Bennett, Suzy (October 2003). "A train journey through the Peruvian Andes" . Wanderlust . Retrieved December 6, 2012 . ^ "Our Train - The Highest in the World" . Incas del Peru . Retrieved December 6, 2012 .^ Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway. "Along The Route" . Pikes Peak Cog Railway . Retrieved December 6, 2012 . ^ Jungfraubahnen. "Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe" . Jungfrau Ski Region . Retrieved December 6, 2012 . ^ Ride the Zugspitzbahn rack railway up Germany's highest mountain ^ "Tramway du Mont-Blanc (TMB) - Train à crémaillère - Ouvertures / Horaires / Tarifs" .^ Insight Guides Great Railway Journeys of Europe ^ "Top 10 highest train stations in Sri Lanka" . Train Journey to the Green Zone in Sri Lanka . Retrieved December 6, 2012 .^ "Pattipola Railway Station of Sri Lanka" . SariSara Sri Lanka . Retrieved December 6, 2012 .^ 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"]^ 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."]^ 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."]^ "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 .^ Korea Tourism Organization. "Chujeon Station" . Visit Korea . Retrieved December 6, 2012 . ^ "Najwyższa linia kolejowa w Polsce - Szklarska Poręba" . www.szklarskaporeba.pl . Retrieved 2021-05-24 .^ 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 . ^ Retrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system. The highest point on the line is north of Postojna railway station , at the Postojna Gate
^ "Rail network" . slo-zeleznice.si . Slovenian Railways . Retrieved 30 April 2021 . Station located at the highest point above sea level: Postojna station at 582m ^ "Banverkets årsredovisning 2009" (PDF) (in Swedish). Banverket . 2009. Retrieved 2021-08-10 .^ Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic map (only line in Liechtenstein)
^ Retrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system
