Brünig railway line

The Brünig railway line (German: Brünigbahn) is a Swiss narrow gauge railway line that links Lucerne, in central Switzerland, with Interlaken, in the Bernese Oberland. The line runs via Alpnachstad, Giswil, Meiringen and Brienz, and passes over the Brünig Pass, using sections of rack railway to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal adhesion methods.

Brünig railway line
An InterRegio train following the Lake Brienz shoreline. The locomotive is a rack-and-adhesion type HGe 101.
Overview
OwnerZentralbahn
Service
Operator(s)Zentralbahn
Technical
Line length74 km (46 mi)
Rack systemRiggenbach
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) metre gauge
Electrification15 kV  16.7 Hz AC overhead line
Maximum incline12% (rack); 3% (adhesion)
Route diagram

km
elevation (M)
or length (m)
SBB to Olten
SBB to Lenzburg
SBB to Zug
SBB to Immensee
0.0
Lucerne
436 M
Start of dual gauge section
Hubelmatt tunnel
550 m
Lucerne Allmend/Messe
KLB to Eichhof brewery
Industrial sidings
Allmend tunnel
3.4
Kriens Mattenhof
to Wiggen
End of dual gauge section
4.5
Horw
441 M
Industrial siding
Spier tunnel
7.4
Hergiswil Matt
445 M
8.7
Hergiswil
449 M
zb to Engelberg
Lopper I Tunnel
1,186 m
Pilatus Railway
13.2
Alpnachstad
435 M
14.9
Alpnach Dorf
452 M
18.7
Kerns-Kägiswil
Sarnen Nord
20.6
Sarnen
473 M
23.4
Sachseln
471 M
Ewil Maxon
29.3
Giswil
485 M
rack section
32.2
Kaiserstuhl OW
698 M
Tschoren
44 m
35.8
Lungern
752 M
Käppeli
146 m
37.8
Käppeli
896 M
40.1
Brünig-Hasliberg
1,002 M
42.1
Brunnenfluh
810 M
45.5
Meiringen
595 M
MIB to Innertkirchen
50.8
Unterbach
53.2
Brienzwiler
575 M
57.8
Brienz
566 M
Brienzdorf
895 m
59.3
Brienz West
581 M
Bachtalen
168 m
Dorni
361 m
61.9
Ebligen
582 M
Bolaui
134 m
65.0
Oberried am Brienzersee
589 M
Kehlengraben
187 m
Grütgraben
55 m
68.3
Niederried
578 M
Platten
26 m
Lehnen
53 m
Ringgenberg
112 m
71.0
Ringgenberg
596 M
Bürgli
50 m
Rotegg
348 m
Aare
167 m
BLS workshops
74.0
Interlaken Ost
567 M
km
elevation (M)
or length (m)

The line is 74 kilometres (46 mi) long. It opened in stages between 1888 and 1916, and was, between 1903 and 2004, the only narrow gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways. Today the line forms part, along with the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, of the Zentralbahn company. The line is served by InterRegio trains that operate the full length of the line, with regular (non-rack) Regio trains between Interlaken and Meiringen, and Lucerne S-Bahn trains between Lucerne and Giswil. The section between Hergiswil and Lucerne is shared with the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.

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