Re:After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest rail...
by syberspace on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:25AM
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There is, the Koralpe massif. Previously to get to Klagenfurt from Graz you first had to go north through a somewhat tight valley for about 50km before the train would turn to the south-west towards Klagenfurt, again tough alpine valleys, and with a lot of stops inbetween.
The new route goes south/south-west immediatley, is very straight compared to the old route, and has at most 3 stops.
Re:After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest rail...
by tasuki on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:26AM
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> [...] and with a lot of stops inbetween. The new route [...] has at most 3 stops.
I think this explains a lot. Adding a couple of stops adds a lot of time to the total!
Re:After 27 years within budget Austria open 6thlongest rail...
by febusravenga on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:35AM
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> they just had shitty railroad
The terrain is just hard railroad had do huge detour on this section
Look at map: https://mapy.com/en/turisticka?x=15.0703419&y=46.7076432&z=1...
Passes in those mountains are only ~1200m above valley level (~1650 abs). Yeah, perfectly ok to run railroad there.
Your autobahn climbs 600m on this section (to 1050m absolute) - it's way to high for railway to be effective.
There aren't any big mountains between Graz and Klagenfurt. It's an hour on the Autobahn. That it took three hours by train... well, they just had shitty railroad? Best of luck, Southern neighbors!