
Achenseebahn: Jenbach to Seespitz
Steam cog railway from the Inn valley to the Achensee
50m · Achenseebahn
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- Steam
Photo: Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria · CC BY 2.5
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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 cog railway from the Inn valley to the Achensee
50m · Achenseebahn
Photo: Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria · CC BY 2.5

A summer steam working the length of the Zillertal
1h 32m · Zillertaler Verkehrsbetriebe
Photo: Smiley.toerist · CC BY-SA 4.0

A two-hourly ComfortJet between two capitals, with Brno in the middle
České dráhy
Photo: RAIL P (RAIL.PHOTOGRAPHY) · CC BY-SA 4.0
3 journeys
Seasonal steam climbs to lakes and summits, typically an hour each way.

Steam cog railway from the Inn valley to the Achensee
50m · Achenseebahn
Photo: Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria · CC BY 2.5

A summer steam working the length of the Zillertal
1h 32m · Zillertaler Verkehrsbetriebe
Photo: Smiley.toerist · CC BY-SA 4.0

A steep red cog railway straight to one of the Salzkammergut’s great viewpoints.
35m · Salzburg AG
Photo: Dai Lygad · CC BY 2.0
3 journeys
Scheduled services over historic Alpine engineering, plus electric rack climbs.

Austria’s classic east–west Alpine main line through the Arlberg.
1h 15m · ÖBB
Photo: Liberaler Humanist / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

A salamander-shaped cog train to Lower Austria’s highest mountain.
40m · Niederösterreich Bahnen
Photo: Liberaler Humanist · CC BY-SA 3.0

Ride the railway that proved main-line trains could cross the Alps.
1h · ÖBB
Photo: C. Stadler / Bwag / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
3 journeys

A two-hourly ComfortJet between two capitals, with Brno in the middle
České dráhy
Photo: RAIL P (RAIL.PHOTOGRAPHY) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Austria’s long narrow-gauge mountain railway to Mariazell.
2h 30m · Niederösterreich Bahnen
Photo: Liberaler Humanist · CC BY-SA 3.0

Fall asleep in Scandinavia and wake up in the Austrian Alps.
20h 40m · Snälltåget
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