The Montserrat Rack Railway is a mountain railway line north-west of Barcelona in Catalonia. The line runs from Monistrol de Montserrat to the mountain-top monastery of Montserrat.
The line is 5 km long and has a rail gauge of 1,000 mm . The first 1 km of the line, between Monistrol and the only intermediate station at Monistrol Vila, is operated by conventional adhesion. The remainder of the line is operated as a rack railway using the Abt system, overcoming a height difference of 550 m with a maximum gradient of 15.6%. The line is electrified with an overhead supply at 1500 V DC.
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