Ritten Railway
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The Ritten Railway ( or Rittner Bahn, ) is an electric light railway which originally connected Bolzano with the Ritten plateau and today continues to operate on the plateau, connecting the villages located there.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Ritten Railway is referenced by 20 other articles, and connects out to Bolzano Tramway, Italy and German.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics 1907 establishments in Italy, Metre-gauge railways in Italy and Rack railways in Italy.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rack railway
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Ritten
- Image
- SAD 21–24 -Bozen 1 (243).jpg
- Length
- 11.764
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- Commons gallery
- Rittnerbahn
- Commons category
- Rittner Bahn
- track gauge
- 1000 mm track gauge
- maximum gradient
- 45
- date of official opening
- 1907-08-13
- speed limit
- 30
- inception
- 1907-01-01
- date of official closure
- 1966-00-00
- timetable/schedule URL
- www.ritten.com/php/downloads/download.php?id=385
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
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- History
- Today
- Rolling stock
- Gallery
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The Ritten Railway ( or Rittner Bahn, ) is an electric light railway which originally connected Bolzano with the Ritten plateau and today continues to operate on the plateau, connecting the villages located there.
== Track == When opened in 1907 the line started as a tramway at Walther Square in the center of Bolzano, where it shared the track with the Bolzano town tramways as far as the Brenner Road. From there to Maria Himmelfahrt the line was a rack railway, climbing until it reached the plateau. A special rack locomotive was placed behind the trams to push them uphill. In the middle of this ascent was a crossing loop so that two trains could cross. The train that went down to Bolzano produced some of the power that was needed to get the other train up. After arriving in Maria Himmelfahrt on the Ritten plateau, the locomotive was uncoupled and the trams were able to proceed unaided on normal tracks to the terminal station in the village of Klobenstein.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ritten Railway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations