!!!Mittenwaldbahn

Mittenwald Railway (formerly also Karwendel Railway), mountain railway 
in North Tirol, first electric standard-gauge railway in Austria, 
opened in 1912. For the earlier Corridor Traffic through Germany, the 
only rail connection with the Ausserfern region; on Austrian territory 
goes from Innsbruck (originally from Westbahnhof Railway Station, 
today from Hauptbahnhof, Central Railway Station) through a 
1.8-km-long tunnel in the Martinswand, across the Seefeld Saddle 
(1,185 m) up to the Scharnitzer Klause defile (Porta Claudia), 
then via Mittenwald to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) and as 
Ausserfernbahn railway near Schanz back to Austria, terminus at 
Reutte. Its continuation route via Vils to Pfronten (Upper Bavaria), 
built in 1905, is run by the German Federal Railways.

!Literature
W. Krutiak, Mittenwaldbahn, 1976; A. Ditterich and H. 
Moecker, Landeseinheit und Landestrennung ..., in: Oesterreich in 
Geschichte und Literatur 35, 1991.


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