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Austria by train

Steam cog railways to Alpine lakes and summits, and the historic main lines that made crossing the Alps by train possible at all.

Austrian railways separate into two pleasures. A steam or cog railway in Tyrol or the Salzkammergut is a slow climb of an hour or so, run to a seasonal timetable. A main line such as the Semmering or the Arlberg is an ordinary scheduled service over a piece of railway engineering that changed European travel.

Every journey here records its own published route, season and booking detail, and seasonal operations are recorded as seasonal rather than implied to run year round.

9 published journeys · 3 groupings

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Steam and cog railways

Seasonal steam climbs to lakes and summits, typically an hour each way.

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Alpine main lines and mountain railways

Scheduled services over historic Alpine engineering, plus electric rack climbs.

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