Natural feature
Brienzer Rothorn
Steam-hauled rack railway summit with sweeping views over a turquoise lake and Alpine ranges.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
0:00≈ 2 min
About this audio guide
This guide to the Brienzer Rothorn above Interlaken follows the steam railway that climbs it, from a hopeful committee of Brienz locals in eighteen eighty-nine to the summer of nineteen fourteen, when the summit fell silent. It is a story about forecasts, rival railways across the lake, and who paid to keep an idle line alive. Along the way you'll hear about carriages that found unexpected work in the nineteen-twenties. Best heard on the summit station platform, with a train in view.
This audio guide was created using AI.