The Arlberg Railway, which connects the Austrian cities Innsbruck and Bludenz, is Austria's only east-west mountain railway. It is one of the highest standard gauge railways in Europe and the second highest in Austria, after the Brenner. The 136.7 km line is a highly problematic mountain railway, in part because it is threatened by avalanches, mudslides, rockfalls and floods. It is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and frequented by international trains, including the Orient Express.
An ÖBB train on the Arlberg Railway in 2007 near Pians village west of Landeck
Arlberg railway tunnel construction (Western mouth)
St. Anton railway station since 2001; view ist directed eastwards to the Stanzer Valley
Trisanna bridge (87 m high) and Castle Wiesberg
Innsbruck is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria. On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass 30 km (19 mi) to the south, it had a population of 132,493 in 2018.
Image: Bürgerstraße 26+24 (BT0A2830)
Image: Conradstraße 12 (IMG 0688)
Image: Innsbruck Altes Landhaus (Tiroler Landtag)1 (cropped)
View of Innsbruck by Albrecht Dürer, 1495 (from the North)
