Highest Altitude Train Stations

Station Rankings

These stations sit at breathtaking elevations, from Andean plateaus to Alpine peaks. Many serve mountain railways built as feats of engineering to access otherwise unreachable summits and passes.

#	Name	Value	Description
1	La Galera (Ticlio)	4,781 m	The highest point on Peru's Ferrocarril Central Andino, the world's second-highest railway, crossing the Andes between Lima and Huancayo.
2	Tanggula	5,068 m	The world's highest railway station on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, where passengers receive supplemental oxygen due to extreme altitude.
3	Condor Station	4,786 m	Located on Argentina's Tren a las Nubes (Train to the Clouds) route through the Andes in Salta Province.
4	El Alto	4,150 m	Bolivia's high-altitude station serving the railway connecting La Paz with Oruro and points south on the Altiplano.
5	Jungfraujoch	3,454 m	Europe's highest railway station, carved inside the mountain, offering views of the Aletsch Glacier from the Swiss Alps.
6	Gornergrat	3,089 m	Terminal station of the Gornergrat Railway rack line above Zermatt with panoramic views of the Matterhorn.
7	Kleine Scheidegg	2,061 m	Alpine junction station where passengers transfer to the Jungfrau Railway for the ascent inside the Eiger.
8	Ospizio Bernina	2,253 m	The highest station on the Bernina Express route, a UNESCO World Heritage railway crossing the Swiss-Italian Alps.
9	Zermatt	1,604 m	Car-free Alpine resort station serving both the Gornergrat Railway and Glacier Express panoramic train.
10	Davos Platz	1,560 m	Station on the Rhaetian Railway in the Graubunden canton, one of the highest mainline stations in Europe.

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Ranked by elevation above sea level in meters. Only stations with regular scheduled passenger service are included (excluding purely freight or construction railways).

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Entries	10
Unit	meters above sea level

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