Ticlio is a railway crossing loop on the Ferrocarril Central Andino

Ferrocarril Central Andino

Ferrocarril Central Andino is the consortium which operates the Ferrovías Central railway in Peru linking the Pacific port of Callao and the capital Lima with Huancayo and Cerro de Pasco...

 (FCCA) in Peru

Rail transport in Peru

Rail transport in Peru has never consisted of a true network, primarily comprising separate lines running inland from the coast.Many of the lines owe their origins to contracts granted to United States entrepreneurs Henry Meiggs and W. R. Grace and Company but the mountainous nature of Peru made...

 whose main claim to fame is that it was the highest railway junction

Junction (rail)

A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes , 'points' and signalling.one or two tracks each meet at a junction, a fairly simple layout of tracks suffices to...

in the world, with an elevation of 4758 m (15,610.2 ft) above sea-level. It lies at km 171 just on the Pacific side of the Andes

Andes

The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...

 watershed. The standard gauge

Standard gauge

The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...

 line through the station was opened in 1893 and from 1921 it was the junction for the now-closed branch to Morococha

Morococha District

Morococha District is one of ten districts of the province Yauli in Peru.-References:...

. There are now no regular passenger services on the FCCA. On the approach to Ticlio eight tunnels were necessary in a stretch of less than two miles (3 km).