Mountain route
Zubačka Rack Railway
Tanvald → Harrachov · Czechia
Zubačka Rack Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 13 km
- Fastest time
- 35 min
- Average speed
- 22 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- České dráhy
- Train
- ČSD Class 426.0 rack
- Countries
- Czechia
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Czechia’s only cog railway, climbing the Jizera Mountains on an Abt rack at a gradient of 58‰, a national record.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 49037 — 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 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of KD 2650 (Zug-Nr. 2650)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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