Mittenwald Railway

Innsbruck–Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Overview
Line number410
LocaleTyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany
Service
Route number960
Operator(s)ÖBB, DB
Technical
Line length63.7 km (39.6 mi)
Number of tracks1
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Minimum radius200 m (660 ft)
Electrification15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed120 km/h (74.6 mph) 70 (max)
Maximum incline3.8%
Route map

1.325
0.000
Innsbruck West
0.800
Inn Viaduct; 230.5 m steel/stone
1.200
Inn bridge; 108.4 m steel
1.782
Innsbruck Hötting
2.100
Tiroler Straße; 38 m steel
3.739
Allerheiligenhöfe
631 m (2,070 ft)
5.025
Kerschbuch tunnel (214.23 m)
5.618
Kranebitterklamm tunnel (34.65 m)
5.718
Kranebitten
697 m (2,287 ft)
5.800
Klammbach bridge; 34 m concrete
7.004
Lawinenschutz gallery (66 m)
7.206
Martinswand
7.370
Hechenberg tunnel (26.02 m)
7.900
Meilbrunnen Bridge; 15 m concrete
8.500
Finstertal Viaduct; 54 m concrete
8.922
An der Wand I Tunnel (109 m)
9.048
An der Wand II Tunnel (202 m)
9.250
Martinswand gallery (228 m)
9.477
Martinswand tunnel (1.810,23 m)
11.477
Ehnbach tunnel (347.22 m)
11.898
Brunntal tunnel (99.30 m)
12.713
Hochzirl
922 m (3,025 ft)
13.139
Vorberg I Tunnel (147.77 m)
13.303
Vorberg II Tunnel (97.65 m)
13.564
Vorberg III Tunnel (46.82 m)
13.700
Vorberg Viaduct; 117 m concrete
14.005
Vorberg IV Tunnel (43.62 m)
14.207
Schloßbach tunnel (721.52 m)
14.900
Schlossbach Bridge; 66 m steel
15.069
Pflegertal tunnel (31.77 m)
15.100
Pflegertal Bridge; 18.5 m concrete
15.137
Fragenstein tunnel (394.62 m)
15.600
Lehnen Viaduct; 28 m concrete
15.800
Kaiserstand Viaduct; 46.8 m concrete
16.783
Leithen
17.817
Leithener Tunnel (84,29 m)
18.200
Gurgelbach Viaduct; 75.4 m concrete
18.835
Reith
1,120 m (3,670 ft)
20.500
Hermelebach Viaduct; 20 m concrete
22.427
Seefeld in Tirol
1,182 m (3,878 ft)
24.943
Seefeld Play Castle
29.226
Gießenbach in Tirol
1,019 m (3,343 ft)
29.400
21.3 m steel
32.100
26.6 m steel
32.491
Scharnitz
964 m (3,163 ft)
33.160
123.527
 
 
national border
118.540
Mittenwald
914 m (2,999 ft)
112.267
Klais
933 m (3,061 ft)
107.349
Kaltenbrunn (Oberbay)
(station until 2 June 1984)
855 m (2,805 ft)
102.500
Kainzenbad
(for events, until 1984 timetable)
100.571
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
708 m (2,323 ft)
Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Mittenwald Railway (German: Mittenwaldbahn), popularly known as the Karwendelbahn (Karwendel railway), is a railway line in the Alps in Austria and Germany. It connects Innsbruck via Seefeld (both in Tyrol, Austria) and Mittenwald to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (both in Bavaria, Germany).

The Mittenwald railway was built as an electric local railway from 1910 to 1912 by the engineers and contractors Josef Riehl and Wilhelm Carl von Doderer. The route was opened on 28 October 1912[2] and operated jointly by the Austrian Federal Railways and the Royal Bavarian State Railways. It was one of the first lines operated with high-tension single-phase AC-powered trains. Thus it had a substantial impact on the development of standards for electric railway operations in Central Europe. Together with the Ausserfern Railway (Ausserfernbahn) it connects the Austrian district of Außerfern (located west of the Fern Pass) with the Tyrol through Germany.

  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Österreich (Austrian railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-138-3.
  2. ^ "Die Eröffnung der Mittenwalderbahn". Innsbrucker Nachrichten (in German). No. 248. Austrian National Library. 28 October 1912. pp. 8 f. Retrieved 30 January 2012.