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Bernat Borràs - it is not allowed to
publish the photos without the permission of the author |
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| Crossing with
an InterRegio at Giswil, towed by a mix adherence-rack
locomotive HGe 4/4 101 (august 2011) |
The train
leaves Giswil for Lucerne, with a service diesel
locomotive on the right (august 2011) |
The S5 line
trains from the Luzern S-Bahn finish at Giswil, where
the rack sections start to reach the Brünig pass. The
Spatz EMUs can't go on rack sections (august 2011) |
Just leaving
Giswil starts the first rack section up to the Brünigpass (august 2011) |
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| Tracks of
Giswil station seen from the Meiringen side (august 2011) |
The rack ramp
is steep just leaving Giswil (august 2011) |
A beautiful landscape surrounds
the rack section (august 2011) |
A Goldenpass train seen from the
last coach (august 2011) |
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| Another view
of the first rack section of the line, with Riggenbach
system (august 2011) |
End of the
first rack section (august 2011) |
Kaisersthul
station (august 2011) |
The very
beautiful Lungersee lake seen from the train (august 2011) |
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| An eight-car
Goldenpass composition running among Kaisersthul and
Lungern (august 2011) |
Lungern
station (august 2011) |
Just when leaving Lungern the
second rack section starts
(august 2011) |
Climbing next to the houses of the village (august 2011) |
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| The train goes
relatively fast although it is a rack section (august 2011) |
End of the
second rack section, where there is the Käppeli siding (august 2011) |
The train
running through the alpine forests, facing the third and
last rack section before reaching the top of the line (august 2011) |
Start of the
third rack section (august 2011) |
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| Last metres
climbing to Brünig pass, with maximum gradients between
100 and 120 thousandths (august 2011) |
End of the
third rack section and entrance to the Brünigpass
station, top of the line between Lucerne and Interlaken (august 2011) |
The 101 961 locomotive arrives to
Brüing-Hasliberg station (august 2011) |
Goldenpass trains crossing at
Brüing station (august 2011) |
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| The HGe 4/4
101 is ready to go down from Brünig to Luzern (august 2011) |
Through
Brünigpass station there are the GoldenPass and
InterRegio trains from Luzern to Interlaken (august 2011) |
General view
of the station, the highest of the Brünig line, 1002
metres above sea level (august 2011) |
Just leaving
Brünig station it starts the fourth and longest rack
section to go down to Meiringen (august 2011) |
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| On the
background the Meiringen valley can be seen, where our
train will have to arrive (august 2011) |
110 thousanths
gradient down to Meiringen from Brünig
(august 2011) |
View of the track and the rack,
Riggenbach type (august 2011) |
This is the only siding placed on
a rack section of the Brünig line, called Brunnenfluh
(august 2011) |
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| Leaving
Brunnenfluh siding on our descent to Meiringen
(august 2011) |
The
morphology
of the
terrain
forced
to
dig
the
half
tunnel
half
of the photo (august 2011) |
End of the
continuous descent with rack from Brünig. From here to
Meiringen and Interlaken the trains run on adherence (august 2011) |
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