Mountain route
Jungfraubahn
Grindelwald → Jungfraujoch · Switzerland
Jungfraubahn in pictures
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- Distance
- 20 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 13 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- Jungfraubahnen
- Train
- Rack railway
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1912
- Highest point
- 3,454 m
- Riders per year
- ≈ 1M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Tunnels INSIDE the Eiger to Europe’s highest station at 3,454 m, the “Top of Europe” since 1912.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 3090260 (8 km), relation 3090931 (9 km) — 18 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Jungfraubahnen — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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