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Wengwald railway station

Wengwald
Wengwald.JPG
Location Wengwald
Lauterbrunnen, Bern
Switzerland
Coordinates 46°36′36″N 07°54′48″E / 46.61000°N 7.91333°E / 46.61000; 7.91333Coordinates: 46°36′36″N 07°54′48″E / 46.61000°N 7.91333°E / 46.61000; 7.91333
Elevation 1,182 m (3,878 ft)
Line(s) Wengernalpbahn
History
Opened 7 June 1910
Location
Wengwald is located in Switzerland
Wengwald
Wengwald
Location within Switzerland

Wengwald is a request stop railway station in the municipality of Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss canton of Bern. The station is on the Wengernalpbahn (WAB), whose trains operate from Lauterbrunnen to Kleine Scheidegg via Wengen.

The station is located on the new line from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen, which opened in 1910 to replace the more direct but steeper original routing. It is immediately uphill of an 180 degree helical tunnel which the line uses in order to reduce the gradient.

The station is served by the following passenger trains:



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