The Jungfraubahn is in many ways a very peculiar railway. It's a meter gauge rack rail railway, nine kilometres long.
More than seven kilometres of it runs inside a mountain, in a tunnel with a very steep slope. The line begins at Kleine
Scheidegg, already at 2061 metres above sea level, and climbs all the way up to Jungfraujoch at 3454 metres above sea
level. Kleine Scheidegg can only be reached by the trains of the Wengernalpbahn. But the Wengernalpbahn and Jungfraubahn
are technically totally different. Wengernalpbahn is an 800 mm gauge rack railway electrified with 1500V DC, whereas the
Jungfraubahn is metre gauge and uses the so called Strub rack rail system. Wengernalpbahn is built with the system Riggenbach
rack rails. The Jungfraubahn was also built with a very special electric system: 1125V three-phase AC using two overhead
catenary wires side by side, so that the trains also have two pantographs side by side. The line is also very steep. The
incline is 25% at parts of the line.
This picture shows one of the most modern trains of the Jungfraubahn. This Bhe 4/8 no.221 is one of the four newest trains
which Stadler built in 2016. It's a fixed three-coach unit.
Picture from Kleine Scheidegg 22.6.2019 by Johannes Erra.