Mountain route
Brienz Rothorn Bahn
Brienz → Rothorn Kulm · Switzerland
Brienz Rothorn Bahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 7.6 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h
- Average speed
- 8 km/h
- Top speed
- 15 km/h
- Operator
- Brienz Rothorn Bahn
- Train
- H 2/3 steam rack locomotive
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1892
- Highest point
- 2,244 m
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A 25% steam rack line, Europe’s highest unelectrified railway, climbs from Lake Brienz to a 2,244 m summit in an hour.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1335549 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.5 km from the shape of Zahnrad (Zug-Nr. 5)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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