Mountain route
Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway
Realp → Oberwald · Switzerland
Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 18 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 10 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke (DFB)
- Train
- HG 3/4 steam locomotive
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1925
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Volunteer-run steam locomotives claw over the 2,160 m Furka Pass past the Rhône Glacier on track abandoned when the base tunnel opened in 1982.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12225506 — 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 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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