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Bürgenstock Funicular

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The funicular was opened in 1888 and was originally had an Abt rack braking rail. The funicular is electric and automatic, but until the closure in 2011 it still used the original cabins. The line has been suspended since November 2011 whilst work is undertaken to create a new luxury resort financed
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It got bad press even before its reopening due to its exorbitant fare prices which are high, even for Swiss standards. The resort management announced a fare of CHF 50 for a roundtrip.
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finance group at its upper station, and was reopened on 28 August 2017.
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Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens (Encyclopaedia of the Railway)
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Index

Bürgenstock-Bahn

Lake Lucerne
Switzerland
Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock BB
Bürgenstock
Funicular
passing loop
Track gauge
Electrification
Maximum incline
German
funicular railway
canton of Nidwalden
Switzerland
Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock
Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees
Bürgenstock
Qatar
Single track
passing loop
gradient
Track gauge
metre gauge
List of funicular railways
List of funiculars in Switzerland
Strub, Emil
Bürgenstockbahn
Zeno.org
doi

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