Jungfrau Railway (Switzerland) - description, history, location. The exact address, phone number, website. Reviews of tourists, map and photos.
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| Jungfrau Railway |
The Jungfrau railway, a pioneer road and a masterpiece among mountain railway lines, was put into service in 1912. A gear train takes passengers from Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch Pass, to the “top of Europe” 3454 m high. high-altitude European railway. 7 out of 9 km of tracks are laid in a tunnel in the Eiger and Munch rocks. The train stops for 5 minutes at each of the intermediate stations so travelers can admire the mountains through panoramic windows.
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| Jungfrau Railway |
The construction of the road began in 1896, but this process became long, difficult and required much more financial investments than was initially planned. The road was opened as much as 9 years after the planned date. Special locomotives were required, since half of the route involved traction and half of the route was gear driven (and this continued until 1951).
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| Jungfrau Railway |
The final length of the railway line was almost 10 km with a maximum slope of 25% and a speed of about 12 km/ h (when driving downhill, it doubles). By the end of the 20th century, the annual number of passengers on the Jungfrau road exceeded half a million, and at the beginning of the 21st century, their daily number reached almost 10 thousand.
The train of the Jungfrau railway overcomes the height difference of 1400 m in 50 minutes.
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| Jungfrau Railway |
On the way, the Jungfrau train passes 3 stops. The first, the Eigergletcher, is named after the adjacent glacier and is located at an altitude of 2320 m. It was the last open air station of the Jungfrau. The next station, "Eigervand", is located underground, in a tunnel, at an altitude of 2864 m. The only way to get to this station not by the Jungfrau train is through a door in the rock that opens directly onto a smooth vertical slope (rescuers sometimes use it). Finally, the Eismir is located at an altitude of 3158 m and also in a tunnel, just beyond the southeastern slope of the Eiger. The main purpose of the station is to allow passengers to admire the Grindelwald-Fiescher glacier from the train windows.
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| Jungfrau Railway |
Trains leave twice an hour from the Kleine Scheidegg lower station. You can also get there by train on the lines from Lauterbrunnen or Grindelwald.