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The Reisseck Railway (sometimes Reißeck Railway, german: Reißeckbahn) is a 
The railway is closed in 2016 during construction work at Schoberboden.
Reisseck railways
on the Verbund site
Reisseck mountain railways
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The Reisseck Railway (sometimes Reißeck Railway, german: Reißeckbahn) is a mountain railway
A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region. It may operate through the mountains by following mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the sum ...
, that runs from Carinthia's Möll valley into the Reißeck Group
The Reisseck Group or Reißeck Group (german: Reißeckgruppe) is a small mountain sub-range in the Austrian state of Carinthia. As the southern part of the Ankogel Group, it belongs to the High Tauern range of the Central Eastern Alps.
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, a small mountain range in southern Austria. It comprises the Reisseck Funicular and the Reisseck Mountain Railway
The Reisseck Mountain Railway (german: Reißeck-Höhenbahn) was a narrow gauge railway with a track gauge of 600 mm, that started at the top station of Schoberboden on the Reisseck Funicular Railway in Austria. It was closed in 2014.
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(a narrow gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structur ...
).
General
The Reisseck Railway starts in Kolbnitz in the Möll valley at a height of and ends for passenger services at the Berghotel Reisseck at a height of Further sections of line end at about 2,400 m. On the opposite side of the valley is another funicular, the Kreuzeck Railway. The lines are operated by Tauern Touristik. Originally the railway was built to transport materiel to the dam and power station of the Reisseck-Kreuzeck power station. After various modifications and expansions its main function today is to provide passenger services.
The railway is closed in 2016 during construction work at Schoberboden.
Reisseck Funicular
The Reisseck Funicular is a metre-gauge line and consists of 3 sections with a total length of around 3,500 metres. It climbs through 1,517 metres in height. The highest station is at 2,236 m by the Schoberboden. Next to the funicular is a pipe, 4,234.5 metres long, that carries water from the lakes of Großer Mühldorfer See, Kleiner Mühldorfer See, Hochalmsee and Radlsee into the Möll valley to the Reisseck-Kreuzeck storage reservoir. Each section of the line is worked by coaches with 64 seats that are hauled by 40-millimetre-thick cables from their upper stations. The diameter of the electrically driven cable drums is 3.85 metres. The gradient of the line varies between 25 and 82%.External links
Reisseck railways
on the Verbund site
Reisseck mountain railways
Informationen auf der Village home page
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