Scenic route
West Coast Wilderness Railway
Queenstown → Strahan · Australia
- Distance
- 35 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- West Coast Wilderness Railway
- Train
- Abt rack steam locomotives
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1896
Hauling itself up 1-in-16 grades on Abt rack cogs — the 1896 copper railway, from Queenstown’s bare hills into King River rainforest, steaming again.
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