Reichenbachfall Railway
The Reichenbachfall-Bahn is a Swiss funicular railway .
location
The valley station of the Reichenbachfall cable car is located in the municipality of Schattenhalb near Meiringen in the Bernese Oberland at 600 m above sea level. M. and leads up to the Reichenbach Falls at 844 m above sea level. M., who became famous through the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .
history
On July 1, 1896, the Federal Council granted the concession for a narrow-gauge funicular railway up to the Reichenbach Falls, and in the same year the Bucher & Durrer company began construction work on behalf of the initiators Elias Flotron (engineer and hotel owner in Willigen) and Franz Josef Bucher .
On June 8, 1899, the 23rd funicular in Switzerland officially opened. From the beginning it operated with an electric drive, which was supplied with electricity by Flotron by means of a temporary small power station. From 1909 on, the Schattenhalb 1 power plant supplied electricity. In 1926, the Schattenhalb 2 headquarters was built 70 meters below the mountain station with a power plant's own intermediate station.
The financial problems began quickly, however, and on February 20, 1903 the federal court ordered the compulsory liquidation . The railway was auctioned off in December 1904. The new operator was also unsuccessful and in 1907 the railway went bankrupt again. The railway survived this setback and found a new owner.
In 1912 the Reichenbachfall Railway received a direct connection to the Brünig Railway station in Meiringen with the Meiringen-Reichenbach-Aare Gorge tram . When the First World War broke out in 1914 , operations had to be stopped because there were almost no tourists. It did not resume summer operations until July 1, 1922 under the new owner, Elektrowerke Reichenbach AG.
In the winter of 1930/31 its drive was completely renewed and in 1957/58 the control system was automated and from then on it was possible to do without the machinist in the drive center, which brought some savings. Between 1998 and 2004 the railway was made fit for the next 100 years and the Reichenbachfall Railway shines again with its new, replicated wooden wagons with the original chassis, the renovated line and its bridges and the new, modern control of the drive.
Technical specifications
| Gauge | 1000 mm |
| Route length | 714 m |
| Height difference | 244 m |
| Medium slope | 36.9% |
| Maximum slope | 57.9% |
| Travel time | 7 minutes |
| dare | 2 two-axle cars with 3 compartments each with 8 seats |
| People capacity | 144 people / hour and direction |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cable car to Reichenbachfall, Meiringen
- ↑ Swiss cable car inventory No. 61.036 Reichenbachfallbahn
Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '9.6 " N , 8 ° 11' 15.3" E ; CH1903: 657 259 / one hundred and seventy-four thousand five hundred ten