Re: Scenic Railway

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

I think that the steep one is Barbarine funicular, serving a hydro scheme
off the Montreux - Chamonix line.  I don't know where I could find its
grade at short notice.

I was on a very steep cable-worked incline recently: it took me to the top
of Melbourne's Rialto Building, at an angle of 90 degrees.

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Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

David Martin <d_martin@mountains.net.au> wrote in article
<366a1845.0@news.camtech.net.au>. re Katoomba Scenic Railway
> Correction: 1 in 0.82 or 52 degrees. I hope it's cable, I wouldn't want
to
> rely on adhesion at that angle!
> I understand there is at least one steeper in Europe, I forget where, but
> not open to public. Don't tell anyone, though.