Mittenwald Railway

Innsbruck–Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Overview
Line number	410
Locale	Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany
Service
Route number	960
Operator(s)	ÖBB, DB
Technical
Line length	63.7 km (39.6 mi)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Minimum radius	200 m (660 ft)
Electrification	15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed	120 km/h (74.6 mph) 70 (max)
Maximum incline	3.8%
Route map Legend From Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof 1.325 0.000 Innsbruck West Arlberg Railway to Bludenz 0.800 Inn Viaduct; 230.5 m steel/stone 1.200 Inn bridge; 108.4 m steel 1.782 Innsbruck Hötting 2.100 Tiroler Straße; 38 m steel 3.739 Allerheiligenhöfe 631 m (2,070 ft) 5.025 Kerschbuch tunnel (214.23 m) 5.618 Kranebitterklamm tunnel (34.65 m) 5.718 Kranebitten 697 m (2,287 ft) 5.800 Klammbach bridge; 34 m concrete 7.004 Lawinenschutz gallery (66 m) 7.206 Martinswand 7.370 Hechenberg tunnel (26.02 m) 7.900 Meilbrunnen Bridge; 15 m concrete 8.500 Finstertal Viaduct; 54 m concrete 8.922 An der Wand I Tunnel (109 m) 9.048 An der Wand II Tunnel (202 m) 9.250 Martinswand gallery (228 m) 9.477 Martinswand tunnel (1.810,23 m) 11.477 Ehnbach tunnel (347.22 m) 11.898 Brunntal tunnel (99.30 m) 12.713 Hochzirl 922 m (3,025 ft) 13.139 Vorberg I Tunnel (147.77 m) 13.303 Vorberg II Tunnel (97.65 m) 13.564 Vorberg III Tunnel (46.82 m) 13.700 Vorberg Viaduct; 117 m concrete 14.005 Vorberg IV Tunnel (43.62 m) 14.207 Schloßbach tunnel (721.52 m) 14.900 Schlossbach Bridge; 66 m steel 15.069 Pflegertal tunnel (31.77 m) 15.100 Pflegertal Bridge; 18.5 m concrete 15.137 Fragenstein tunnel (394.62 m) 15.600 Lehnen Viaduct; 28 m concrete 15.800 Kaiserstand Viaduct; 46.8 m concrete 16.783 Leithen 17.817 Leithener Tunnel (84,29 m) 18.200 Gurgelbach Viaduct; 75.4 m concrete 18.835 Reith 1,120 m (3,670 ft) 20.500 Hermelebach Viaduct; 20 m concrete 22.427 Seefeld in Tirol 1,182 m (3,878 ft) 24.943 Seefeld Play Castle 29.226 Gießenbach in Tirol 1,019 m (3,343 ft) 29.400 21.3 m steel 32.100 26.6 m steel 32.491 Scharnitz 964 m (3,163 ft) 33.160 123.527 national border 118.540 Mittenwald 914 m (2,999 ft) 112.267 Klais 933 m (3,061 ft) 107.349 Kaltenbrunn (Oberbay) (station until 2 June 1984) 855 m (2,805 ft) 102.500 Kainzenbad (for events, until 1984 timetable) Ausserfern Railway from Kempten 100.571 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 708 m (2,323 ft) Passage to Zugspitze Railway To Munich Source: German railway atlas[1]

The Mittenwald Railway (German: Mittenwaldbahn), popularly known as the Karwendelbahn (Karwendel railway), is a railway line in the Alps in Austria and Germany. It connects Innsbruck via Seefeld (both in Tyrol, Austria) and Mittenwald to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (both in Bavaria, Germany).

The Mittenwald railway was built as an electric local railway from 1910 to 1912 by the engineers and contractors Josef Riehl and Wilhelm Carl von Doderer. The route was opened on 28 October 1912^[2] and operated jointly by the Austrian Federal Railways and the Royal Bavarian State Railways. It was one of the first lines operated with high-tension single-phase AC-powered trains. Thus it had a substantial impact on the development of standards for electric railway operations in Central Europe. Together with the Ausserfern Railway (Ausserfernbahn) it connects the Austrian district of Außerfern (located west of the Fern Pass) with the Tyrol through Germany.