This is a list of the highest railways by country. It includes the name of the railway, its highest point and highest elevation and its opening year.
List Country Railway line Highest point Highest elevation Opened Xining-Golmud-Lhasa Tanggula 2006 Lima-Huancayo Ticlio 1893 Rio Mulatos-Potosí Cóndor Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Pikes Peak Summit 1891 Salta–Antofagasta Viaducto La Polvorilla 1948 Quito-Guayaquil Urbina 1908Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed RailwayQilianshan No.2 Tunnel2014 Jungfrau Railway Jungfraujoch 1912 Uganda Railway Baringo County 1930 Bavarian Zugspitze RailwayRide the Zugspitzbahn rack railway up Germany's highest mountain Schneefernerhaus 1930 Alishan Forest Railway Chushan 1986 Tramway du Mont-Blanc Refuge-du-Nid-d'Aigle 1909 Massawa–Asmara Railway Asmara 1911 Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway Addis Ababa 2018 Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Ghum 1880Zhob Valley RailwayKan Mehtarzai Railway Station1921 Vall de NúriaInsight Guides Great Railway Journeys of Europe, Spain's highest station. ["Núria is the highest station in Spain"] Vall de Núria Rack Railway 1931 Skitube Bullock Terminal 1987 Main Line (Sri Lanka) Pattipola 1894 Schneeberg RailwayStation Puchberg am Schneeberg, lower-austria.info. ["Fans of nostalgia can be transported in around 40 minutes by the Schneebergbahn to Austria's highest railway station"] Hochschneeberg 1897 Borjomi-Bakuriani Bakuriani 1902 Brenner LineSULMONA, AQ, ABRUZZO, magazine.dooid.it. ["At the Rivisondoli-Pescocostanzo station, the line reaches 1268 m above sea level making it the highest station on the Italian FS network after the Brenner Pass."] Brenner 1867 Tatra Electric Railway Štrbské Pleso 1896 Koumi Line Nobeyama 1935 Canadian Pacific Railway Mountain Subdivision Rogers Pass 1889 Baikal-Amur Mainline 1984 Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge lineThe Most Beautiful Train Journeys in Bulgaria, theculturetrip.com. ["It runs through three mountains and stops at the highest railway station in the Balkan Peninsula, Avramovo Station."] Avramovo 1939 Bergen Line Finse 1908 Snowdon Mountain Railway Summit 1896 Strakonice-Volary line Kubova Huť 1893 Taebaek Line Chujeon 1973Izera railwaySzklarska Poręba (Jakuszyce)1902 Linha do Tua Rossas railway station 1906Opening year of the highest-point stretch; the opening year of the railway's first stretch was 1887.Highest-point stretch closed in 1992; railway fully closed in 2008. Padalarang-Kasugihan Nagreg 1890 North Island Main Trunk Waiouru 1908 Ljubljana–TriesteRetrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system. The highest point on the line is north of Postojna railway station, at the Postojna Gate Postojna Gate 1856 Mittbanan Near Storlien Feldkirch–BuchsRetrieved from the Swisstopo topographic map (only line in Liechtenstein) Near Schaanwald 1872 Mallow–Tralee lineRetrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system Near Rathmore 1853
See also Rail transport List of highest railways in the world List of countries by highest point
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