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Table 2.2 Examples of tourism-oriented heritage railways

Heritage Railway Location

Alishan Forest Railway Taiwan

Verde Canyon Railroad USA

Pilatus Railway Switzerland

Bieszczadzka Forest Railway Poland

End of the World Train Argentina

Urskog-Høland Line Norway

Sagano Scenic Railway Japan

Steamtrain Hoorn Medemblik Netherlands

C ˇ ierny Hron Railway Slovakia

Gulbene-Al¯ksne Railway Latvia

Whangaparaoa Narrow Gauge Railway New Zealand

Cepu Forest Railway Indonesia

Le Petit Train Jaune/Ligne de Cerdagne France

Šargan Eight Serbia

Kalka-Shimla Railway India

Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli Germany

Jokioinen Museum Railway Finland

White Pass and Yukon Route Canada/USA

Peak Tram Hong Kong

Victorian Goldfi elds Railway Australia

The Trans-Siberian Railway, the Orient Express and the Qinghai-Tibet
Railway are three prominent examples (Hall, 2005; Qin & Zheng, 2010;
Shackley, 2006).
Medium-distance train lines are also popular attractions. The Grand
Canyon Railway (Figure 2.6) and the Verde Canyon Railroad, both in the US
state of Arizona, are two good examples (Loverseed, 1994). The Verde Canyon
Railroad was originally opened in 1912 to transport raw copper from Jerome
to a smelter in Clarkdale, and then to link them both to the Santa Fe Railway.
The track is now a 33 km heritage rail corridor that runs between Clarkdale
and Perkinsville, Arizona. In 1990, the railway, under new ownership, began
to run as a four-hour tourist attraction, which passes through interesting
natural landscapes, bypasses historic areas where famous western movies
were filmed, and ends up in an old mining ghost town before returning to
its departure point at Clarkdale (Verde Canyon Railroad, 2013).
Short-distance rail lines are a novelty attraction in many places. They
range from only a few hundred meters to several kilometers. The Alderney
Railway on Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, was built in the 1840s to
haul stones from a quarry on the east end of the island to center-island con-
struction sites in St Anne and Braye. Today the railway runs 3 km and func-
tions as a tourist attraction on the island during summer months and