Bregenz Forest Railway

Bregenz–Bezau
A steam train on the Sporenegg Bridge
Technical
Line length35.33 km (21.95 mi)
Track gauge760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in)
Route map

0.00
Bregenz

Junction with the Vorarlberg Railway
398 m (AA)
1.09
Vorkloster
400 m above sea level (AA)
1.82
Rieden tunnel (212 m)
2.62
Rieden
4.70
Kennelbach
422 m above sea level (AA)
8.43
Fluh
(ab 1937)
9.15
Rickenbach tunnel (86 m)
Rickenbach bridge; steel
9.60
Wirtatobel loading point (from 1920)
10.18
Langen-Buch
(until 1977)
12.33
Rotach tunnel (123 m)
Rotach bridge; steel
13.64
Doren-Sulzberg
456 m above sea level (AA)
15.02
Weißachbrücke
(ab 1904)
Weißach bridge; steel
18.18
Langenegg-Krumbach
468 m above sea level (AA)
18.72
Oberlangenegg
(until 1957)
19.73
Pommerngraben loading point (until 1930)
20.74
Lingenau-Hittisau
506 m above sea level (AA)
23.45
Egg
553 m above sea level (AA)
24.75
Unterbach
578 m above sea level (AA)
26.75
Andelsbuch
615 m above sea level (AA)
27.90
Bezegg
618 m above sea level (AA)
29.30
Bersbuch
633 m above sea level (AA)
30.32
Schwarzenberg
636 m above sea level (AA)
31.73
Sporenegg bridge; steel; 68 m
33.56
Reuthe
625 m above sea level (AA)
34.27
Through truss bridge over the Bregenzerach; steel
34.37
Grebenbach bridge
35.33
Bezau
642 m above sea level (AA)

The Bregenz Forest Railway (German: Bregenzerwaldbahn, known colloquially as the Wälderbahn or Wälderbähnle), is an Austrian narrow gauge railway with a track gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in), the so-called Bosnian gauge. It runs through the state of Vorarlberg and from 1902 to 1983 linked Bregenz on Lake Constance with Bezau in the Bregenz Forest on a 35.33 kilometre long railway line. Today only a 5.01 kilometre long section is still worked as a heritage railway. The remaining line has been closed and largely lifted.