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Brocken Railway

Brocken Railway
Brockenbahn
At the Brocken summit, December 2001
At the Brocken summit, December 2001
Track gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 in)
Maximum incline: 0.3333  %
from Wernigerode
0.00 Drei Annen Hohne 543 m
to Nordhausen
Steinbach
Dammastbach
2.90 Bk Knaupsholz
3.55 Awanst Steinbruch Knaupsholz (to 1963)
Wormke
5.36 Schierke 687 m
8.60 Bk Bobbahn (bobsleigh run)
Schwarzes Schluftwasser
10.35 Eckerloch 855 m
10.90 Bk Eckerloch
13.60 Goetheweg 956 m
16.60 Bk Brockenmoor
18.96 Brocken 1,125 m

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 / 51.7704; 10.7269 (Drei Annen Hohne station)) 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 / 51.7997; 10.6179 (Brocken station)), the highest mountain of the Harz at 1,141 m (3,743 ft) and part of the Harz National Park.


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