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Liechtenstein is probably the only country in the world which temporarily closed down its entire rail network. All 35,000 Liechtensteiners are having a train-free month of June.
To clarify: the cross-Liechtenstein line is 9.5 km long.
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There is only one railway which crosses Liechtenstein. It is the line which links Feldkirch (in the Vorarlberg district of Austria) with Buchs (in the Rhine Valley in eastern Switzerland). That might sound as though it's no more than a quaint Alpine branch line, but the reality is that this is the principal east-west route through the Alps. The sleek red Railjets which dash from Vienna to Zürich come this way. Sit on a summer evening by that railway which cuts through Liechtenstein and you'll probably see Czech, Croatian, Slovenian and Hungarian carriages on overnight trains heading east.
But not this month. For the Austrian rail infrastructure company (which looks after the tracks in Liechtenstein) has decided to have a summer festival of track renewal. The line through Liechtenstein is closed until Monday 3 July.
To clarify: the cross-Liechtenstein line is 9.5 km long.
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