1896 – 1912 Rails do the climbingStúpanie preberajú koľajnice

Everything changed when the trains arrived. A rack railway — a toothed rail laid between the running rails and gripped by a cogwheel under the train — opened from Štrba up to Štrbské Pleso in July 1896. On 20 December 1908 the narrow-gauge electric railway reached Starý Smokovec from Poprad, and the next day, 21 December, the funicular from Starý Smokovec to Hrebienok began running: two kilometres of track and 254 metres of climb, built so that guests could reach the treeline without a carriage road. The branch to Tatranská Polianka followed on 16 December 1911, and the hardest section, on to Štrbské Pleso, on 13 August 1912. After that the Tatras were no longer an expedition. They were a day out.Všetko sa zmenilo, keď prišli vlaky. V júli 1896 sa zo Štrby na Štrbské Pleso rozbehla ozubnicová železnica — medzi koľajnicami vedie ozubnica, do ktorej zapadá ozubené koleso pod vlakom. 20. decembra 1908 dorazila z Popradu do Starého Smokovca úzkorozchodná elektrická železnica a hneď na druhý deň, 21. decembra, sa pohla pozemná lanovka zo Starého Smokovca na Hrebienok: dva kilometre trate a 254 výškových metrov, postavené tak, aby sa hostia dostali k hranici lesa bez povozovej cesty. Odbočka do Tatranskej Polianky pribudla 16. decembra 1911 a najnáročnejší úsek na Štrbské Pleso 13. augusta 1912. Odvtedy neboli Tatry výpravou. Boli výletom.