Wendelstein Rack Railway

Wendelstein Rack Railway
The Wendelstein Railway passing the "Hohe Mauer" ("High Wall")
Overview
Line number	9570
Service
Route number	11030
Technical
Line length	Combined total: 7.66 km (4.76 mi), with rack: 6.15 km (3.82 mi)
Rack system	Strub
Track gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge
Minimum radius	40 m (131.2 ft)
Electrification	Catenary 1500 V DC
Maximum incline	Adhesion (?)  % Rack rail 23.7  %
Route map Legend from Rosenheim 0,00 Brannenburg 473 m to Kufstein Rosenheimer Straße (former federal road) Mühlenstraße Dientzenhoferstraße 2,29 Waching Base 508 m Depot Start of rack Gembachau End of rack 6,40 Aipl 972 m Start of rack 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 (Schwaigerwand-Tunnel, 119 m) 9,90 Tunnel 7 (35 m) 9,95 Wendelstein Summit 1723 m

The Wendelstein Rack Railway^[1] (‹See Tfd›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. It is also the second-highest railway in Germany, after the Zugspitze Railway, but the highest when considering only open-air railways.^[2]