Mountain route
Hungerburgbahn
Innsbruck (Congress) → Hungerburg · Austria
A 2007 hybrid funicular with Zaha Hadid’s sculpted glass stations — cabins tilt to stay level from the flat river crossing to a 46% climb.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5292634 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Hungerburgbahn?
The Hungerburgbahn runs 1.84 km from Innsbruck (Congress) to Hungerburg.
How long does the Hungerburgbahn take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 8 min for the 1.84 km. That is an average of 14 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 36 km/h.
Who runs the Hungerburgbahn?
Innsbrucker Nordkettenbahnen, with Tilting-floor hybrid funicular cabins; Zaha Hadid stations.
How old is the Hungerburgbahn?
The line has been in service since 2007. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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