Scenic route
Bayerische Zugspitzbahn
Garmisch-Partenkirchen → Zugspitzplatt · Germany
- Distance
- 19 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 15 min
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Bayerische Zugspitzbahn
- Train
- Rack railway
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1930
Germany’s highest railway — cogwheels from Garmisch past the Eibsee, then 4.5 km of tunnel to snowfields at 2,588 m below the country’s highest summit.
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