An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train, and is the most widespread and common type of railway in the world. Adhesion traction...

mounted vehicles up or down inclines. These include simple rail adhesion, rack railways and cable inclines (including rail mounted water tanks to carry...

de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí. The São Paulo Railway consists of three parts: The 20 km (12 mi) long adhesion railway at the coast from Santos to Piaçaguera...

Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald from Interlaken. The railway is rack assisted (that is although an adhesion railway, rack and pinion operation is used on steep...

standard gauge adhesion railway from Romanshorn to St. Gallen St. Fiden (19.13 km) opened on 3 October 1910 and the standard gauge adhesion line from St...

Transandine Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Trasandino) was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge combined rack (Abt system) and adhesion railway which operated...

is the highest railway crossing in Europe and the third-highest railway in Switzerland. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent...

Brünig Pass, using sections of rack railway to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal adhesion methods. The line is 74 kilometres...

above sea level, it is the third highest railway crossing in Europe. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent, and – with inclines...

towards Wanlockhead and is the highest adhesion railway in the UK. The rack and pinion Snowdon Mountain Railway is higher. Trains are currently diesel...

directly on the rails. Where the line is too steep to rely on adhesion for climbing, a rack railway may be used, in which a toothed cog wheel engages with a...

Slippery rail, or low railhead adhesion, is a condition of railways (railroads) where contamination of the railhead reduces the traction between the wheel...

sections and elsewhere operate as a regular railway, are described as rack-and-adhesion lines. On rack-and-adhesion lines, trains are equipped with propulsion...

used to finish the ends of rods of various forms. Adhesion railway The most common type of railway, where power is applied by driving some or all of the...

at the northern end of the Gotthard Rail Tunnel. The network is an adhesion railway but using Abt rack assistance on the steeper inclines. Between Realp...

heritage railways in Switzerland. For convenience, the list includes any pre-World War II railway in the large sense of the term (either adhesion railway, rack...

Monistrol Vila, is operated by conventional adhesion. The remainder of the line is operated as a rack railway using the Abt system, overcoming a height...

Cable car Funicular railway Grade (slope) Lickey Incline Mountain railway Rack railway Ruling gradient Slope Steepest gradients on adhesion railways...

has a maximum gradient of 7.9% and is the steepest standard gauge adhesion railway in Europe. It carries both leisure and local commuter traffic. The...

Erzberg Railway (1872–1978). The last rack-railway engine was in use until 1978, when the route was electrified and converted into an adhesion railway. In...

funicular railway, which was replaced in 2006), the second an adhesion railway. At Brienz the Brienz Rothorn Bahn (BRB), a steam-hauled rack railway, ascends...

Rocket was almost entirely new. Stephenson was an advocate of the adhesion railway, against the fashion of the time, and believed that the light loads...

This article lists the highest railways in the world. The table only includes non-cable passenger railways whose culminating point is over 3,000 metres...

lower 2,253 metres (7,392 ft) (at Ospizio Bernina) – it is the highest adhesion railway route in Europe. Lago Bianco, Lej Nair and Lej Pitschen are located...

will be adhesion only. Gebishi Railway Kunming–Hai Phong Railway Qingzang railway Colombian Railways Lika line Rijeka line Eritrean Railway Artouste...

maximum grade of 11.6%, the Pöstlingbergbahn is one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world. There are steeper grades on at least one other tram...

above sea level, it is the third highest railway crossing in Europe. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent, and – with inclines...

A rail adhesion car or rail adhesion train is a modified vehicle used on a rail adhesion system where the standard equipment does not have locomotives'...

gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways built to a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in). Whilst this gauge is uncommon amongst adhesion railways, some...

narrow-gauge adhesion railway in Switzerland. The line is owned and operated by the Appenzell Railways company, which also operates several other railway lines...