The Reisseck Railway (sometimes Reißeck Railway, ) was a

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, that ran from Carinthia's

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into the Reißeck Group, a small mountain range in southern

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. It comprised the Reisseck

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and the

Reisseck Mountain Railway The Reisseck Mountain Railway () 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. History An industrial railway w ...

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Overview

The Reisseck Railway started in Kolbnitz in the

at a height of () and ended for passenger services at the Berghotel Reisseck at a height of () Further sections of line ended at about . On the opposite side of the valley is another

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, the Kreuzeck Railway, which is still operating. The lines were 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 was to provide passenger services. Reisseckbahn Sektion1

The railway closed in 2016 during construction work at Schoberboden and never reopened.

Reisseck Funicular

The Reisseck Funicular was a

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line and consisted of 3 sections with a total length of around . It climbed through in height. The highest station was at by the Schoberboden. Next to the funicular is a pipe, 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 was worked by coaches with 64 seats that were hauled by cables from their upper stations. The diameter of the electrically driven cable drums was . The gradient of the line varied between 25 and 82%. In 2018, it was used one last time to transport a pump motor. In January 2022, the funicular was dismantled.

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