From Realp to Oberwald

Route information: 

• Route length Realp - Oberwald 17,630 m

• Height difference Oberwald - Furka 794 m

• Coal consumption approx. 600 kg (one way)

• Water consumption approx. 5'000 l (one way)

• Year of construction locomotives 1, 4 and 9: 1913; locomotive 6 1902

• 1914 Line Brig - Gletsch opened (BFD)

• 1926 Line Gletsch - Realp opened (FO)

• 1941 Electrification (lack of coal)

• 1981 Closure of the line (opening base tunnel)

• 1990 Locomotives 1, 9, 704, 708 brought back from Vietnam

• 1992 - 2010 Sectional opening of operations on the Realp - Oberwald line