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The Gornergrat Railway (German: Gornergrat Bahn; GGB) is a mountain rack railway, located in the Swiss canton of Valais. It links the resort village of Zermatt , situated at 1,604 m (5,262 ft) above mean sea level , to the summit of the Gornergrat .
The station is situated at the summit of the Gornergrat, in the Swiss municipality of Zermatt and canton of Valais. At an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft) above mean sea level, it is the highest open-air railway station in Europe. [1] [2] Near the station is the Kulm Hotel, a hotel and observatory.
The Gornergrat railway station, the highest (open-air) railway station building on the continent. This is a list of railway stations in Switzerland located at an elevation over 1,200 metres above sea level.
The Gornergrat (English: Gorner Ridge; 3,135 m (10,285 ft)) is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB) , the highest open-air railway in Europe.
Gornergrat railway station, 3,100 m. The Gornergrat is served by the Gornergrat railway, a 29-minute ride to the Gornergrat peak (3,089 m), via Riffelalp, Rotenboden and Riffelberg, (with limited stops at Findelbach and Landtunnel just above Zermatt). At the summit, the hotel and restaurant have been refurbished and accommodate a shopping centre.
The Gornergrat railway station, the highest (open-air) railway station building on the continent. This is a list of high-altitude railway stations in Europe.It includes any railway station or location with passenger railway services (on adhesion or rack railways), located at an elevation of over 2,000 metres above sea level.
This is a list of highest passenger railways in operation in Europe. It includes only non-cable railways [2] whose culminating point is over 1,200 metres above sea level. Most of them are located in the Alps, where two railways, the Jungfrau and Gornergrat railways, exceed 3,000 metres and nine other exceed 2,000 metres, including four railway ...
Findelbach is a railway station on the Gornergrat railway, which links the resort of Zermatt with the summit of the Gornergrat.The station is situated in the municipality of Zermatt, in the Swiss canton of Valais, at an altitude of 1,770 m (5,810 ft) above mean sea level.