The Jungfrau Railway (Jungfraubahn) is the highest railway in Europe and takes you from the hamlet of Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfraujoch, the saddle between the peaks of Jungfrau and Mönch at the height of 3454m. The original goal was to add an elevator to the peak (4158m), but this was never done.
The rack railway (above left) is mostly in a tunnel that required considerable manpower and time to build – it was ready after 16 years of work in 1912. And the Swiss are still trying to make the most of the investment – besides viewing platforms with countless selfie opportunities (above right), snow activities (below left) and an ice palace (below right), you can naturally buy your Swiss watch or army knife here.
But most visitors do not start in Kleine Scheidegg – they arrive there with another rack railway, the Wengernalpbahn (below left) from Grinderwald or Lauterbrunnen. These are bigger, but still not on every map. Thus the Berner Oberland-Bahn (below right) takes you to and from Interlaken – and here you can have direct rail connections to all over Switzerland, and the Deutsche Bahn runs an occasional ICE to Berlin and Hamburg.
Of course, if you want to avoid some of the railways, there are cable cars between various points in the area (below left). Whatever your preferred form of transport, the scenery is ridiculously Swiss (below right).
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