| 31. | In its first 12 months of operation, the Montserrat Rack Railway carried 462, 964 passengers.
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| 32. | First built as a rack railway, it was converted to friction operation between 1924 and 1926.
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| 33. | They are the only mainline locomotives of the MGB not fitted with cogwheels for rack railway operations.
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| 34. | Today 20 employees work on the rack railway, but it is still reliant on equalization payments.
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| 35. | The village was destroyed in 1683 by rack railway to the Schneeberg in 1897, tourism became important.
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| 36. | The line was opened on 27 April 1884 as a cable driven rack railway of the Agudio system.
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| 37. | Two years later a rack railway was built from the village to Breitlauenen in the Schynige Platte mountains.
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| 38. | On 17 August 1959 the rack railway was officially closed and work began immediately on lifting the track.
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| 39. | The resort is accessible by road and by the Skitube, Australia's only underground rack railway.
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| 40. | Various kinds of rack railway were developed to overcome the lack of friction of conventional locomotives on steep gradients.
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