List of highest railways by country

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
 ChinaXining-Golmud-LhasaTanggula5,068 m (16,627 ft)[1]2006
 PeruLima-HuancayoTiclio4,829 m (15,843 ft)[2][3]1893
 BoliviaRio Mulatos-PotosíCóndor4,786 m (15,702 ft) 
 USAManitou and Pike's Peak RailwayPikes Peak Summit4,301 m (14,111 ft)[4]1891
 Argentina Salta–Antofagasta Viaducto La Polvorilla 4,220 m (13,845 ft) 1948
 Ecuador Quito-Guayaquil Urbina 3,609 m (11,841 ft) 1908
 China Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway Qilianshan No.2 Tunnel 3,608 m (11,837 ft) 2014
  SwitzerlandJungfrau RailwayJungfraujoch3,454 m (11,332 ft)[5]1912
 KenyaUganda RailwayBaringo County2,785 m (9,137 ft)1930
 GermanyBavarian Zugspitze Railway[6]Schneefernerhaus2,650 m (8,694 ft)1930
 TaiwanAlishan Forest RailwayChushan2,451 m (8,041 ft)1986
 EritreaMassawa–Asmara RailwayAsmara2,394 m (7,854 ft)1911
 FranceTramway du Mont-Blanc[7]Nid d'aigle de Bionnassay2,380 m (7,808 ft)1909
 EthiopiaAddis Ababa–Djibouti RailwayAddis Ababa2,293 m (7,523 ft)2018
 IndiaDarjeeling Himalayan RailwayGhum2,257 m (7,405 ft)1880
 SpainVall de Núria[8]Vall de Núria Rack Railway1,968 m (6,457 ft) 1931
 AustraliaSkitubeBullock Terminal1,905 m (6,250 ft)1987
 Sri LankaMain Line (Sri Lanka)Pattipola1,892 m (6,207 ft)[9][10]1894
 AustriaSchneeberg Railway[11]Hochschneeberg1,792 m (5,879 ft)1897
 GeorgiaBorjomi-BakurianiBakuriani1,650 m (5,413 ft)1902
 ItalyBrenner Line[12]Brenner1,371 m (4,498 ft)1867
 SlovakiaTatra Electric RailwayŠtrbské Pleso1,350 m (4,429 ft)1896
 JapanKoumi LineNobeyama1,346 m (4,416 ft)1935
 CanadaCanadian Pacific Railway Mountain SubdivisionRogers Pass1,330 m (4,364 ft)1889
 BulgariaSeptemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line[13]Avramovo1,267 m (4,157 ft)1939
 NorwayBergen LineFinse1,222 m (4,009 ft)[14]1908
 United KingdomSnowdon Mountain RailwaySnowdon Summit1,065 m (3,494 ft)1896
 Czech RepublicStrakonice-Volary lineKubova Huť997 m (3,271 ft)1893
 South KoreaTaebaek LineChujeon901 m (2,956 ft)[15]1973
 Poland Izera railway Szklarska Poręba (Jakuszyce) 886 m (2,907 ft)[16] 1902
 PortugalLinha do TuaRossas railway station849 m (2,785 ft)[17]1906[note 1][note 2]
 IndonesiaPadalarang-KasugihanNagreg848 m (2,782 ft)1890
 New ZealandNorth Island Main TrunkWaiouru832 m (2,730 ft)1908
 SloveniaLjubljana–Trieste[18][19]Postojna Gate610 m (2,001 ft)1856
 SwedenMittbanan[20]Near Storlien601 m (1,972 ft)
 LiechtensteinFeldkirch–Buchs[21]Near Schaanwald452 m (1,483 ft)1872
 IrelandMallow–Tralee line[22]Near Rathmore150 m (492 ft)1853

See also

Notes
  1. Opening year of the highest-point stretch; the opening year of the railway's first stretch was 1887.
  2. Highest-point stretch closed in 1992; railway fully closed in 2008.

References
  1. "World's highest railway station enters key construction period". Canada Tibet Committee. July 28, 2005. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  2. Bennett, Suzy (October 2003). "A train journey through the Peruvian Andes". Wanderlust. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  3. "Our Train - The Highest in the World". Incas del Peru. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  4. Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway. "Along The Route". Pikes Peak Cog Railway. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  5. Jungfraubahnen. "Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe". Jungfrau Ski Region. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  6. Ride the Zugspitzbahn rack railway up Germany's highest mountain
  7. "Tramway du Mont-Blanc (TMB) - Train à crémaillère - Ouvertures / Horaires / Tarifs".
  8. Insight Guides Great Railway Journeys of Europe, Spain's highest station. ["Núria is the highest station in Spain"]
  9. "Top 10 highest train stations in Sri Lanka". Train Journey to the Green Zone in Sri Lanka. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  10. "Pattipola Railway Station of Sri Lanka". SariSara Sri Lanka. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  11. Station 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"]
  12. SULMONA, 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."]
  13. The 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."]
  14. "Finse Railway Station Webcam – The Highest Station in Norway". Camscape. October 13, 2012. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  15. Korea Tourism Organization. "Chujeon Station". Visit Korea. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
  16. "Najwyższa linia kolejowa w Polsce - Szklarska Poręba". www.szklarskaporeba.pl. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  17. Esteves, João Sena; Ramos, Luís; Nóbrega, João Miguel; Souto, António Pedro; Sepúlveda, Manuel João (2012). "Gaining Insight into Tua Railway Line through Interactive Experiments" (PDF). Railroads in Historical Contexts. Universidade do Minho. 2: 360. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  18. Retrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system. The highest point on the line is north of Postojna railway station, at the Postojna Gate
  19. "Rail network". slo-zeleznice.si. Slovenian Railways. Retrieved 30 April 2021. Station located at the highest point above sea level: Postojna station at 582m
  20. "Banverkets årsredovisning 2009" (PDF) (in Swedish). Banverket. 2009. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  21. Retrieved from the Swisstopo topographic map (only line in Liechtenstein)
  22. Retrieved from the Google Earth geoinformation system
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