List of heritage railways
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Heritage railway
thumb|right|the Historical [[Khyber train safari|Khyber Railway]] goes through the [[Khyber Pass]], [[Pakistan]]A heritage railway , preserved railway , tourist railway , or tourist railroad is a railway that is run as a tourist attraction, in some cases by volunteers, and...

s sorted by country, state or region. A heritage railway is a preserved or tourist railroad which is run as a tourist attraction
Tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or amusement opportunities....

, is usually but not always run by volunteers, and often seeks to re-create railway scenes of the past.

Argentina

Patagonia

  • Old Patagonian Express
    La Trochita
    La Trochita, , in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "The Little Narrow Gauge" in Spanish...

  • Tren Histórico de Bariloche (British build 1912, 4-6-0 steam to Perito Moreno)

Tierra del Fuego

  • End of the World Train in Tierra del Fuego
    Tierra del Fuego
    Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of , and a group of smaller islands including Cape...

      Official website

Belgium

  • Dendermonde-Puurs Steam Railway
    Dendermonde-Puurs Steam Railway
    The Dendermonde–Puurs Steam Railway is a heritage railway situated in the Belgian provinces of East Flanders and Antwerp ....

  • Stoomcentrum vzw Maldegem  Eeklo-Maldegem
  • Chemin de Fer à vapeur des Trois Valleés
  • Vennbahn
    Vennbahn
    The Vennbahn is a former railway line that was built partly across German territory, but is now entirely in Belgium, because the trackbed of the line, as well as the stations and other installations, were made Belgian territory in 1919 under a provision of the Treaty of Versailles...

  • Chemin de Fer du Bocq


China

  • Hongkong Tramways
  • Changchun Tramway
  • Tran Siberian Railway
  • Tiefa Steam Locomotive Tourist Attraction
  • Shangri-La Express
  • Quinhai - Tibet Railway
  • Peak Tram
    Peak Tram
    The Peak Tramway is a funicular railway in Hong Kong, which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island. Running from Central district to Victoria Peak via the Mid-Levels, it provides the most direct route and offers good views over the harbour and skyscrapers of...

  • Ocean Park Funicular Train
  • Juihuashan Anhui

Chile

  • Colchaguac Wine Train (a Bayer Peacock 2-6-0)
  • Tren de la Araucanía Temuco to Victoria – (1953 Baldwin 4-8-2)

Denmark

Source:
  • Blovstrødbanen
  • D-maskinegruppen
  • DJK Veterantog Vest
  • DSB Museumstog
  • GM-gruppen
    GM-Gruppen
    GM-Gruppen is a Norwegian heritage railway society that restores and operates Scandinavian operated diesel locomotives from General Motors Electro-Motive Division...

  • Hedelands Veteranbane
  • Limfjordsbanen
  • Mariager-Handest Veteranbane
  • Museumsbanen Maribo-Bandholm
  • Nordsjællands Veterantog
    Nordsjællands Veterantog
    Nordsjællands Veterantog was founded as Helsingør Jernbaneklub in 1958 as a model railway club in Helsingør, Denmark. The club had its ups and downs in the early years, but the big turning point was when it was decided to try and work with scale 1:1...

  • Sydfynske Veteranjernbane
  • Veteranbanen Bryrup-Vrads
  • Østsjællandske Jernbaneklub


Finland

  • Jokioinen Museum Railway
    Jokioinen Museum Railway
    The Jokioinen Museum Railway is located in Jokioinen, Finland. It is based on the last narrow gauge railway in Finland, the gauge Jokioinen Railway....

  • Kovjoki Museum Railway
  • Porvoo Museum Railway


France

For a comprehensive list of heritage railways in France, see the article Liste des chemins de fer touristiques de France (French version of this article).
  • Froissy Dompierre Light Railway
    Froissy Dompierre Light Railway
    The Froissy Dompierre Light Railway is a narrow-gauge light railway near the village of Cappy, in the Somme department, France. It is run as a heritage railway by APPEVA...

  • Tarn Light Railway
    Tarn Light Railway
    The Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn , or Tarn Light Railway, is a narrow-gauge light railway near the village of Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur, in the vicinity of Saint-Sulpice in the department of Tarn, France...

  • Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme


Germany

For a comprehensive list of heritage railways in Germany, see the article Liste der Museumseisenbahnen (German version of this article). The list includes railway museums that operate historic railway services.
  • Albbähnle
  • Amstetten–Gerstetten line
  • Augsburg Railway Park
    Augsburg Railway Park
    The Augsburg Railway Park is a railway museum in Augsburg on part of the former Augsburg locomotive shed owned by the Deutsche Bahn. At present the Railway Park is still under construction and is therefore only open to visitors for certain exhibitions. It will be officially re-opened on 13 April...

  • Bäderbahn Molli
  • Bavarian Localbahn Society
    Bavarian Localbahn Society
    The Bavarian Localbahn Society , with its headquarters in Tegernsee, is a society that is concerned with the history of the railways in Bavaria. Localbahn means 'branch line' and is mainly used in southern Germany and Austria in lieu of the usual term Nebenbahn...

  • Bergische Museumsbahn
    Bergische Museumsbahn
    The Bergische Museumsbahn is a heritage tram museum situated in the German city of Wuppertal. It operates its own tram line south of Wuppertal on original rails with original cars...

  • Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum
  • DBK Historic Railway
    DBK Historic Railway
    The DBK Historic Railway is a preserved railway association in Crailsheim, Germany.Founded as the "Kocher Valley Steam Railway" in 1985 at Sulzbach-Laufen, it moved gradually into the former steam engine locomotive depot at Crailsheim. In May 2006, there were over 100 members...

  • Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz
    Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz
    The Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz e. V. or DFS is a German museum railway based in Ebermannstadt in Franconian Switzerland, part of northern Bavaria, Germany.- Aims :The society's aims are the:...

  • Dieringhausen Railway Museum
    Dieringhausen Railway Museum
    The Dieringhausen Railway Museum is a railway history museum in Dieringhausen in the district of Oberbergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany....

  • Döllnitzbahn
    Döllnitzbahn
    The Döllnitzbahn GmbH is a private railway company in Saxony in eastern Germany. It is the operator of the Oschatz–Mügeln–Kemmlitz/Glossen narrow gauge line in central Saxony.-History:...

  • Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn
  • Ettlingen–Bad Herrenalb line
  • Franconian Museum Railway
  • Frankfurt City Junction Line
    Frankfurt City Junction Line
    The Frankfurt City Link Line in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, emerged in the 19th century as a link line between Frankfurt's western stations at the Gallustor and the Frankfurt-Hanau railway in the east of the city...

  • German Steam Locomotive Museum
    German Steam Locomotive Museum
    The German Steam Locomotive Museum or DDM is located at the foot of the famous Schiefe Ebene ramp on the Ludwig South-North Railway in Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia. This region is in northern Bavaria, Germany...

  • Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum
    Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum
    The Hannoversches Strassenbahn-Museum or Hanover Tramway Museum comprises a collection of tramcars from all over Germany, and is located on the site of a former potash mine in Sehnde, southeast of the city of Hanover.- External links :**...

  • Historic Railway, Frankfurt
    Historic Railway, Frankfurt
    The Historic Railway, Frankfurt or HEF is a German museum railway in Frankfurt am Main. The society was founded in 1978 and its aim is the preservation of historic, valuable railway materiel in working order, especially steam locomotives, as technical and cultural monuments.Since 1979 there has...

  • Karlsruhe-Baiersbronn line
  • Kleinbahn-Museum Bruchhausen-Vilsen
  • Kuckucksbähle
  • Nördlingen-Feuchtwangen line
    Bavarian Railway Museum
    The Bavarian Railway Museum is a railway museum based in the old locomotive sheds at Nördlingen station in Bavaria, Germany. It is home to more than 100 original railway vehicles and has been located in the depot at Nördlingen since 1985.- History of the locomotive shed :The shed, itself, has a...

  • Nördlingen-Gunzenhausen line
    Bavarian Railway Museum
    The Bavarian Railway Museum is a railway museum based in the old locomotive sheds at Nördlingen station in Bavaria, Germany. It is home to more than 100 original railway vehicles and has been located in the depot at Nördlingen since 1985.- History of the locomotive shed :The shed, itself, has a...

  • Mellrichstadt-Fladungen line
  • Mügeln railway network
    Mügeln railway network
    The gauge Mügeln railway network was a network of narrow gauge lines in Saxony, eastern Germany, running between Oschatz, Döbeln, Neichen, Strehla and Lommatzsch, whose operational hub was at Mügeln. The routes were built primarily to reach the rural hill country of central Saxony...

  • Radebeul-Radeburg line
    Radebeul-Radeburg line
    The Radebeul-Radeburg railway, also known as the Lößnitzgrundbahn and locally nicknamed the Lößnitzdackel , is a gauge narrow gauge steam-hauled railway in the outskirts of Dresden, Germany...



India

  • Calcutta Tramways
  • Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
    Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
    The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, nicknamed the "Toy Train", is a narrow gauge railway from New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal, run by the Indian Railways....

  • Nilgiri Mountain Railway
    Nilgiri Mountain Railway
    The Nilgiri Mountain Railway is a railway in Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908, and was initially operated by the Madras Railway Company. The railway still relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. NMR comes under the jurisdiction of the newly formed Salem Division...

  • Matheran Hill Railway
    Matheran Hill Railway
    Matheran Hill Railway is a heritage railway in Maharashtra, India. It was built between 1901 and 1907 by Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy, financed by his father, Sir Adamjee Peerbhoy of the Adamjee Group at the cost of Rs.16,00,000...

  • Kalka Shimla Railway


Indonesia

  • Ambarawa Railway Museum
    Ambarawa Railway Museum
    The Ambarawa Railway Museum, is a museum located in Ambarawa in Central Java, Indonesia. The museum focuses on the collection of steam locomotives, the remains of the closing of the 3 ft 6in railway line.-Museum building and location:...

  • Cepu Forest Railway
    Cepu forest railway
    The Cepu Forest Railway is a light logging railway of gauge that runs through teak plantations to the northwest of the town of Cepu on the boundary between Central and East Java provinces,on the island of Java in Indonesia...

  • Sepur Kluthuk Jaladara
  • Mak Itam Steam Locomotive

Italy

  • Bernina Railway
    Bernina Railway
    The Bernina Railway is a single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the Rhaetian Railway . It links the spa resort of St. Moritz, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, with the town of Tirano, in the Province of Sondrio, Italy, via the Bernina Pass...

    ; in the Rhaetian Railway between Italy and Switzerland. Inscribed in the World Heritage List of UNESCO

Mexico

  • Ferrocarril Interoceanico
    Ferrocarril Interoceánico
    The Interoceanic Railway of Mexico was one of the primary pre-nationalization railways of Mexico. Incorporated in Great Britain in 1888 to complete an unfinished project and compete with the Mexican Railway, it completed a narrow gauge main line from Mexico City to Veracruz in 1891...

     http://www.rinconestudiantil.com/morelosnatural/Webs/Turismo/Tren_escenico.htm
  • Chihuahua al Pacífico
    Chihuahua al Pacífico
    The Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico , also known as El Chepe from its reporting mark CHP, or Ferrocarril Chihuahua-Pacífico is a major rail line in northwest Mexico, linking the city of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, to the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa and its port Topolobampo...

     (Copper Canyon) http://www.chepe.com.mx/ing_html/index.html
  • Tequila Express
    Tequila Express
    The Tequila Express is a Mexican regional train service that operates from Guadalajara, Jalisco, to the Tequila Herradura distillery at the San José del Refugio Hacienda in the municipality of Amatitán, Jalisco. Amatitán is approximately northwest of Guadalajara and southeast of the town of...

     http://www.tequilaexpress.com.mx/

The Netherlands

  • Steamtrain Hoorn Medemblik
    Steamtrain Hoorn Medemblik
    The Museumstoomtram Hoorn Medemblik is a heritage railway in the Netherlands. It runs from Hoorn to Medemblik, a distance of about 20km.-Original:...

  • Stoom Stichting Nederland
    Stoom Stichting Nederland
    thumb|200px|The Stoom Stichting Nederland railwayThe Stoom Stichting Nederland is a railway museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, founded in 1976.-Facilities:...

  • Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
    Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
    Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij is a steam railway line running from the city of Apeldoorn to the town of Dieren in the Netherlands. On its way from Apeldoorn, it passes through the following villages: Lieren / Beekbergen, Loenen, Eerbeek on the Veluwe, a region in the Netherlands.Rides on steam...

  • Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
    Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij
    The Zuid-Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij or ZLSM is a heritage railway operating in the south of the Netherlands. It runs over the border into Germany and have an extensive collection of stock...

  • Efteling Steamtrack Line
    Efteling Steamtrack Line
    The 'Efteling Track Line' has 3 operational steam locomotives:* Aagje : The first train bought, 'Aagje' an Orenstein & Koppel, was, at that time, still in operation at the IJsseloord Brickworks in Arnhem...

  • Stichting Stadskanaal Rail
  • Stoomtrein Goes - Borsele
  • Stichting voorheen RTM

New Zealand

For a list of heritage railways in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, see the article List of New Zealand railway museums and heritage lines

Norway

  • Gamle Vossebanen
  • Krøderbanen
    Krøderbanen
    The Krøderen Line is a heritage railway line connecting the Krøderen lake in Buskerud, Norway, to the town of Vikersund. The line was built as a narrow gauge branch line of the Randsfjord Line by the Norwegian State Railways and opened in 1872...

  • Nesttun-Osbanen
    Nesttun-Osbanen
    The Nesttun–Os Railway was a narrow gauge railway between Nesttun, now part of Bergen, and the community of Osøyro in Os municipality, Norway. As the first private railway in Norway, it opened 1 June 1894, designed to connect Os to the Voss Line, allowing for passenger and freight transport to...

  • Norwegian Railroad Museum
    Norsk Jernbanemuseum
    The Norwegian Railway Museum is the national railway museum in Norway. Museum headquarters, administration offices and main exhibition hall are situated in the city of Hamar...

     in Hamar
    Hamar
    is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...

  • Rjukanbanen
    Rjukanbanen
    The Rjukan Line , at first called the Vestfjorddal Line, was a Norwegian railway line running through Vestfjorddalen between Mæl and Rjukan in Telemark. The railway's main purpose was to transport chemicals from Norsk Hydro's plant at Rjukan to the port at Skien, in addition to passenger transport...

  • Setesdalsbanen
    Setesdalsbanen
    The Setesdal Line is a heritage railway between Kristiansand and Byglandsfjord in southern Norway, 78 km long. It was built with a narrow gauge of , and opened to Hægeland 26 November 1895, and to Byglandsfjord 27 November 1896...

  • Thamshavnbanen
    Thamshavnbanen
    The Thamshavn Line was Norway's first electric railway, running from 1908 to 1974. Today it is operated as a heritage railway and is the world's oldest railway running on its original alternating current electrification scheme, using 25 Hz 6.6 kV AC. It was built to transport pyrites...

  • Urskog-Hølandsbanen
    Urskog-Hølandsbanen
    The Urskog–Høland Line , also known as Tertitten, is a narrow gauge railway between Sørumsand and Skulerud in Norway.-History:The original line was long and was built in three stages: Urskogbanen opened in 1896, running from Bingsfossen to Bjørkelangen; Hølandsbanen from Bjørkelangen to Skulerud...

  • Valdresbanen
    Valdresbanen
    The Valdres Line was a Norwegian railway that connected to the Gjøvik Line at Eina with Fagernes in the district of Valdres. The first stretch opened on 23 November 1902, and the entire route was operational on October 10, 1906. The line was shut down for regular traffic as of 1 January 1989.The...



Pakistan

  • Khyber Railway
    Khyber train safari
    The Khyber train safari is a railway route in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The colonial era railway route has been described as "a journey into time and history". It consists of a train pulled by two vintage steam locomotives built in 1920s that takes passengers through breathtaking and...


Poland

  • Bieszczadzka Forest Railway
    Bieszczadzka Forest Railway
    Bieszczadzka Forest Railway is a narrow gauge railway built in a sparsely populated, forest region of Bieszczady Mountains. Construction commenced at the end of 19th century and completed before the World War I. Nowadays, a part of the railway is utilized as a tourist attraction...

  • Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew
    Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew
    Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew was established in 1984. The exhibit was open in 1986. The museum is located in the headquarter of the former Sochaczew County Narrow Gauge Railway. A part of the railway is still in service...

  • Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
    Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
    Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja near Żnin is an open air museum collecting and exhibiting steam locomotives, passenger and freight cars, trolleys, railwaymen's tools, signalling equipment, contents of an old waiting room, old maps...


Republic of Ireland

For a list of heritage railways in the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

, see the article List of heritage railways in the Republic of Ireland

Romania

  • Mocăniţă
    Mocanita
    A mocăniţă is a narrow gauge railway in Romania, most notably in Transylvania and nearby regions. Archetypely, they are situated in mountainous areas and the locomotives operating on them are steam-powered...



Serbia

  • Šargan Eight
    Šargan Eight
    The Šargan Eight is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in Serbia, running from the village of Mokra Gora to Šargan Vitasi station. An extension to Višegrad in the Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was finished on 28 August 2010....



St. Kitts


South Africa

  • Outeniqua Choo Tjoe
    Outeniqua Choo Tjoe
    The Outeniqua Choo Tjoe was the last remaining continually-operated passenger steam train in Africa, ending operation in June 2009. The railway was completed in 1928, and links the towns of George and Knysna in the Western Cape, South Africa. The 3 hour journey also stops in the towns of...

     http://www.onlinesources.co.za/chootjoe/history.htm Heritage railway
  • Rovos Rail
    Rovos Rail
    Rovos Rail is a private railway company operating out of Capital Park Station in Pretoria, South Africa. The Society of International Railway Travelers has regularly named the Pride of Africa, as the train is called, as one of the World's Top 25 Trains because of its excellent accommodation, public...

     heritage railtours
  • The Sandstone Heritage Trust http://www.sandstone-estates.com/ (now operating steam locomotives)
  • Umgeni Steam Railway
    Umgeni Steam Railway
    Umgeni Steam Railway - a railway preservation group, started in 1982, located just outside Durban in a small village called Inchanga. The history of the line they use dates back to the 1870s when the first railway line was built to run from Durban-Pietermaritzburg .-Excursion Trains:On the last...

     http://www.umgenisteamrailway.co.za/ (Kloof to Inchanga, near Durban)

Slovakia

  • Čierny Hron Railway
    Cierny Hron Railway
    The Čierny Hron Railway is a narrow gauge railway in the Slovak Ore Mountains, built as an industrial railway for logging operations.-History:...

  • The Historical Logging Switchback Railway in Vychylovka, Kysuce
    Kysuce
    Kysuce is a traditional informal name of a region in north-western Slovakia, situated around the Kysuca river and bordering the Orava region in the east and the Czech Republic in the west. It consists of two districts, Čadca and Kysucké Nové Mesto. The region is surrounded by the numerous mountain...

     near Nová Bystrica (Historická lesná úvraťová železnica)


Spain

  • Azpeitia Railway Museum
    Azpeitia Railway Museum
    The Azpeitia Railway Museum in Azpeitia, Basque Country, Spain, has a collection of steam locomotives and other rolling stock as well as other items, connected with the Basque Narrow gauge railways....

     http://wwweuskotren.es (Steam railway tours)
  • Gijón Railway Museum
    Gijón Railway Museum
    The Gijón Railway Museum or Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturias, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, has a large collecion of steam locomotives and other locomotives and rolling stock,...

  • Railway Museum in Vilanova
    Railway Museum in Vilanova
    The Museu del Ferrocarril in Vilanova i la Geltrú has a large collection of historic railway locomotives and other rolling stock in the stations old roundhouse and outside. Located close to the Railway station in Vilanova, 40 km south of Barcelona.-See also:*List of museums in Spain...

     (close to Barcelona)
  • Tramvia Blau
    Tramvia Blau
    Tramvia Blau is one of Barcelona's three tram systems. It is a heritage streetcar line serving a hilly area of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district between the terminus of FGC Barcelona Metro L7 and the Funicular del Tibidabo...

    , Barcelona
    Barcelona
    Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...



Switzerland

  • Furka-Oberalp-Bahn
    Furka-Oberalp-Bahn
    The Furka–Oberalp-Bahn is a narrow gauge mountain railway in Switzerland with a gauge of . It runs in the Graubünden, Uri and Canton of Valais. Since January 1, 2003 it is part of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn when it merged with the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn....

    • Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway
      Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway
      The Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway is a company which operates a railway line between Realp and Oberwald...

  • Pilatus Railway
    Pilatus Railway
    The Pilatus Railway or Pilatusbahn is a mountain railway in Switzerland and is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48%. The line runs from Alpnachstad, on Lake Lucerne, to a terminus near the summit of Mount Pilatus at an altitude of...

  • Rigi-Bahnen
    Rigi-Bahnen
    Rigi Railways is a group of railways on Mount Rigi, located between two of the arms of Lake Lucerne, in Switzerland. They include two standard gauge rack railways, the Vitznau-Rigi Bahn and the Arth-Rigi Bahn , along with the Luftseilbahn Weggis-Rigi Kaltbad cable car.-Vitznau – Rigi Railway...

  • Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn
    Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn
    The Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn is a narrow gauge railway in Switzerland. The track width is . It was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka-Oberalp-Bahn and BVZ Zermatt-Bahn . The name comes from the Matterhorn and St...

  • Glacier Express
    Glacier Express
    The Glacier Express is an express train connecting railway stations of the two major mountain resorts of St. Moritz and Zermatt in the Swiss Alps. The train is operated jointly by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn and Rhaetian Railway...

  • Bernina Express
    Bernina Express
    The Bernina Express is an express train connecting Chur in Switzerland with Poschiavo and Tirano in Italy, by crossing the Swiss Alps from north to south. For most of its journey, the train also passes along and through the World Heritage Site known as the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina...

  • Schynige Platte Railway


Sweden



Taiwan

  • Alishan Forest Railway
    Alishan Forest Railway
    The Alishan Forest Railway is an 86 km network of narrow-gauge railways running up to and throughout the popular mountain resort of Alishan in Chiayi County, Taiwan...



Great Britain

For a list of heritage railways in England, Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 and Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

, see the article List of British heritage and private railways.

Northern Ireland

For a list of heritage railways in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

, see heritage railways in Northern Ireland.

Isle of Man

For a list of heritage railways on the Isle of Man
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

, see heritage railways in the Isle of Man.

United States

See also

  • Mountain railway
    Mountain railway
    A mountain railway is a railway that ascends and descends a mountain slope that has a steep grade. Such railways can use a number of different technologies to overcome the steepness of the grade...

  • America by Rail
  • Heritage tourism
    Heritage tourism
    Cultural heritage tourism is a branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring...

  • List of Conservation topics
  • List of United States railroads
  • List of tourist attractions worldwide

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