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The Schynige Platte Railway is built to 800 mm gauge (2 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in gauge) and is electrified using a 1500 V DC overhead supply. It is a rack railway , using the Riggenbach rack with a maximum gradient of 25% (1 in 4).
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Schynige Platte is a railway station that is the upper terminus of the Schynige Platte railway, a rack railway that connects Wilderswil with the Schynige Platte mountain in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The Schynige Platte alpine botanical garden is accessed from the station, whilst a mountain hotel and restaurant is nearby. [1]
As of the December 2020 timetable change, the following rail services stop at Wilderswil: [5] [6] Regio: half-hourly service between Interlaken Ost and Lauterbrunnen or Grindelwald; trains operate combined between Interlaken Ost and Zweilütschinen. fifteen trains per day to Schynige Platte; service operates in the summer only.
Breitlauenen station was created from the purchase of the inn at Breitlauenen when the Schynige Platte Railway was constructed in 1891. [3] The station, the inn and surrounding geography, are extensively covered in late 1890s literature. [4] [5] The inn at the station closed in 1974. [6]
A train at the Wilderswil station with the track of the Schynige Platte Railway (red train) on the adjacent platform. Since 1949 railcars have predominated. Some of the older electric locomotives still survive and are used for special trains. The centre of operations is Zweilütschinen with the depot headquarters and the modern main workshops.
A train on the open-air section of the Jungfrau Railway, the highest in Europe. This is a list of mountain railways in operation in Switzerland.It includes railways that overcome steep gradients (over 5%) or whose culminating point is over 800 m (2,600 ft) above sea level.
Wilderswil railway station is the primary connection in the town, Wilderswil with Berner Oberland Bahn trains passing through between Interlaken and up to Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald. The station is the terminus of the Schynige Platte Railway. The town has main road access to the A8 motorway. In August 2023, a project was completed to ...