This cab ride is a collaboration with Andreas Perren and Daniel Felix from https://fuehrerstandsmitfahrten.ch. They were the first to film every single railway line in Switzerland and their collection is available for purchase. We're grateful to have them on board to showcase a selection of their videos here on YouTube. They’ve also shared other videos on the channel youtube.com/lorirocks777. Be sure to stop by and say hello!
Welcome aboard the Zentralbahn (formerly Brünigbahn) on this beautiful spring day in 2011. Our journey starts in Interlaken Ost, the eastern train station of the city of Interlaken in the Bernese Alps. Located between beautiful Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, the name Interlaken is explained rather quickly in Latin: Inter lacūs, between the lakes. Our train follows the coastline of Lake Brienz until we reach Meiringen. We then change our direction of travel, which involves a new locomotive pulling our train and turn right towards the Brünigpass, a small mountain pass that just exceeds 1000 meters over sea level. With gradients up to 128‰, it is considered a steep route and the trains climb and descend with the help of a rack and pinion system. After the Brünigpass, the route goes down the mountain again, with views onto Lake Lungern, Lake Sarnen and finally Lake Lucerne. As we pass by Lake Lungern, we are only a few Kilometers away from the geographical centerpoint of Switzerland. This is the closest train you can take through the actual center of Switzerland. If you were to leave the train in Alpnachstad, you could visit Mount Pilatus with the steepest rack and pinion railway in the world: A whopping 480‰ incline! As the area gets more and more populated, it is a clear sign that we are about to reach Lucerne, the terminus of our trip today. It is a beautiful and warm spring day today, so sit back, relax and enjoy our cab ride through the stunning Swiss countryside. Many thanks to Andreas and Daniel for their fantastic cab ride!
Locomotive/EMU: Zentralbahn De 4/4 (to Meiringen) / HGe 4/4 (from Meiringen)
Train stops at:
Interlaken Ost
Brienz
Meiringen
Brünig-Hasliberg
Lungern
Kaiserstuhl
Giswil
Sarnen
Alpnach Dorf
Alpnachstad
Hergiswil
Lucerne
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