Mountain route
Gelmerbahn
Handegg → Gelmersee · Switzerland
- Distance
- 1.03 km
- Fastest time
- 10 min
- Average speed
- 6 km/h
- Operator
- Grimselwelt (KWO)
- Train
- Open-air 24-seat cars of 1926, public rides since 2001
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1926
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
An open-car ride up a 106% grade — Europe’s steepest funicular until Stoos overtook it in 2017 — built to serve the Gelmersee dam works.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 19 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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