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4 unusual facts about Albula Railway


Albula Railway

In 2005, the Rail Control Center in Landquart assumed the former tasks of the remote monitoring station at Filisur.

The Albula Railway begins in Thusis, where it connects with the Landquart - Chur railway, built in 1896.

Originally, it was planned to extend the Albula Railway via the Maloja Pass, to Chiavenna in Italy.

In 1890, the Davos hotelier Willem-Jan Holsboer proposed the construction of a rail link from Chur via Davos, and through a tunnel under the Scaletta Pass, to St Moritz, and then onwards via the Maloja Pass, to Chiavenna in Italy.



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Landwasser Viaduct

To passengers on trains approaching the viaduct from Tiefencastel and Alvaneu on the Albula Railway, the viaduct becomes visible from quite some distance away.