Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2023
Date 07-Apr
Volume 230
Issue 4,714
Page 494
Category An Engineer's Day Out
Part
Title Three Phase to he Peaks - the Gornergrat Railway, Switzerland
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Takes a trip on the world's first electrically powered mountain railway. Gornergrat Station, reaching Zermatt, Abt rack system, Muehlebache Viaduct, Findelbach bridge, Visp to Zermatt line, rack locomotive by SLM of Winterthur, snowsheds, Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn train, early poster, 'Glacier Express', Weisshorn, Zinalrothorn, twin-railcar 3051, Matterhorn, 'Polaris' twin railcar made by Stadler, ski train (Photo courtesy Matterhorn-Gotthard Bahn 2022), Zermatt station with crane wagon, building the Gornergrat-Monte Rosa Bahn, snow blower, twin pantographs, ski lift terminus at Riffelberg, electric power, Rifflalp Tramway, Gornergrat Glacier and Monte Rosa, Dufourspitze, other engineering en route, travel, help, further reading, viewing, further information