Brocken Railway Brockenbahn |
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At the Brocken summit, December 2001
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Track gauge: | 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum incline: | 0.3333 % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Brocken Railway (German: Brockenbahn) is one of three tourist metre gauge railways which together with the Harz Railway and Selke Valley Railway form the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways railway network in the Harz mountain range of Germany.
It runs from the station of Drei Annen Hohne (51°46′13″N 10°43′37″E / 51.7704°N 10.7269°E) at 542 m (1,778 ft), where it joins the Harz Railway, via Schierke and the Bode River valley to the summit of the Brocken (51°47′59″N 10°37′04″E / 51.7997°N 10.6179°E), the highest mountain of the Harz at 1,141 m (3,743 ft) and part of the Harz National Park.