The Gornergratbahn is a quite special small mountain railway. It begins in the mountain village of Zermatt at 1600 meters
over sea level and climbs up to the top of the mountain ridge Gornergrat at 3089m over sea level. It's the second highest
railway after the Jungfraubahn, but whereas the Jungfraubahn climbs to over 3km mostly hidden inside a mountain, the Gornergratbahn
climbs all the way in the open. It is a system Abt rack-rail railroad, metre gauge and electrified with three-phase electricity.
Also the voltage is exotic: 725 V, 50 Hz, 3-phase AC.
Note the two pantographs side by side on the roof of the train. The line is only 3,79 km long and during touristic seasons
two-coach electric train units operate typically every half-hour. There are also old single coach trains which can be used
during low season.
This train is composed of two two-coach units of the type Bhe 4/8 from 1993 and seen here in their original livery. This picture
is from Riffelboden and it has been taken by David Gubler on 17.2.2013. David has been kind to publish it under the
GNU Free Documentation license. The same picture
has been published also at bahnbilder.ch and at Wikimedia Commons.