Ybbs Valley Railway

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The Ybbs Valley Railway (Ybbstalbahn) was a narrow-gauge railway of the Austrian Federal Railways with a track gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in), located in the Lower Austrian Mostviertel. The original route followed the valley of the river Ybbs from Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Kienberg-Gaming, with a branchline to the town of Ybbsitz. A small, 3.2 kilometer long, section between the railway station of Waidhofen an der Ybbs and the Pestalozistraße still operates as Waidhofen City Railway (Citybahn Waidhofen), while the route from Lunz am See to Kienberg-Gaming is currently operated as a heritage railway under the name Ybbsthalbahn-Bergstrecke (mountain line). Plans are under way to extend the heritage section to the town of Göstling, where tracks of the old railway are still in place.

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