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Wendelstein Railway

Wendelstein Rack Railway
Wendelsteinbahn
The Wendelstein Railway passing the "Hohe Mauer" ("High Wall")
The Wendelstein Railway passing the "Hohe Mauer" ("High Wall")
Route number: 11030
Line number: 9570
Line length: Combined total: 7.66 km (4.76 mi),
with rack: 6.15 km (3.82 mi)
Track gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 in)
Voltage: 1500 V DC
Electrification: Catenary
Maximum incline: Adhesion (?)  %
Rack rail 23.7  %
Minimum radius: 40 m (131.2 ft)
Rack system: Strub
Stations and structures
from Rosenheim
0,00 Brannenburg
to Kufstein
Rosenheimer Straße (former federal road)
Mühlenstraße
Dientzenhoferstraße
2,29 Talbahnhof Waching 508 m
Depot
Start of the rack section
Gembachauclosed
End of the first rack section
6,40 Aipl 972 m
Start of the second rack section
7,50 Mitteralm 1210 m
Tunnel 1 (34 m)
Tunnel 2 (40 m)
Tunnel 3 (50 m)
Tunnel 4 (30 m)
Tunnel 5 (16 m)
wooden avalanche protection gallery
"Hohe Mauer" (with culvert)
Tunnel 6 (119 m)
9,90 Tunnel 7 (35 m)
9,95 Wendelstein top station 1723 m

The Wendelstein Rack Railway (German: Wendelsteinbahn), sometimes just referred to as the Wendelstein Railway, is an electrically-driven metre gauge rack railway (with several adhesion sections) that runs up the Wendelstein in the Upper Bavarian Limestone Alps. Together with the Wendelstein Cable Car (Wendelstein-Seilbahn) it is operated by the Wendelsteinbahn GmbH. The mountain railway climbs through a total height of 1,217.27 metres (3,993.7 feet). The Wendelstein Railway is one of only four working rack railways in Germany, the others being the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway, the Drachenfels Railway and the Stuttgart Rack Railway.

The construction of the Wendelstein Railway was the vision of privy councillor (Geheimer Kommerzienrat), Dr. h.c. Otto von Steinbeis, an industrialist, who was involved in forestry and agriculture in the alpine foreland as well as logging in Bosnia on a grand scale and built, in parallel with that, an extensive light railway (Kleinbahn) network. In 1908 he published his plans and on 4 February 1910 Prince-Regent Luitpold signed the concession deed for the construction of the Wendelstein Rack Railway.

The original 9.95-kilometre (6.18-mile) long route, running from Brannenburg over the eastern flank of the mountain, has seven tunnels, eight galleries and twelve bridges. In order to keep services running even in winter a route along the steep rock faces of the Wildalpjoch and the Soin was chosen instead of the cheaper and easier route on the slopes of the Mitteralm and Reindleralm alpine meadows.


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