Re: Steepest train/tram line

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

This one crops up regularly.  There was a long thread on it in
misc.transport.rail.europe last year - try dejanews.  I can't find my
collated answers.

AFAIK the winner was Postlingberg, a mountain tram starting in Linz,
Austria.  Hakone tozan mountain tram in Japan, 120 km south of Tokyo, is
steep but beaten (AFAIK 1 in 12).
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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

David Martin <d_martin@mountains.net.au> wrote in article
<3667e077.0@news.camtech.net.au>...
> What is the steepest gradient used on a train or tram line? I refer to
> conventional adhesion, NOT cog or cable.