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Galera is the second highest train station in the Western Hemisphere with an elevation of 4781 m (15,686 feet). It is situated in the Andes in Peru along the track from Lima to Huancayo. In the years 1992-2003 it was out of use as was the whole railway-track because of the terrorist threat by the group Sendero Luminoso. It is now the third highest in the world as it is surpassed by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway's Tanggula Mountain Pass railway station in the Tanggula Mountains, Tibet, which at 5,068 m is the world's highest railway station.
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