The Skitube Alpine Railway is an 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in), standard gauge track electric rack railway in the Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia. It provides access to the snowfields at Blue Cow Mountain and the Perisher Valley.
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