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Austria’s Achenseebahn to close?

THE 6.8km Achenseebahn part-rack railway linking Jenbach and the Achensee lake in the mountains 440 metres above the town may not reopen in 2020 after the Tyrol regional government declined to offer any more funding to the line in early March.

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