Funiculaire_Saint-Imier_-_Mont-Soleil

Funiculaire Saint-Imier – Mont-Soleil

Funiculaire Saint-Imier – Mont-Soleil

Funicular railway in the Jura, Switzerland

Funiculaire Saint-Imier – Mont-Soleil is a funicular railway in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland. The line leads from the village of Saint-Imier at 828 m to the station Mont-Soleil at 1179 m,[1] on Mont Soleil (1291 m). The line of 743 m in length has a difference of elevation of 351 m at a maximum inclination of 60%.[1]

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Built in 1903[2] as a single-track line with two cars and a passing loop, the track was lengthened and converted to a single car operation in 2003.[1] The line includes several bridges and a tunnel.[1][3]

The base station is ca. 800 m from St-Imier railway station.

The railway is owned and operated by Funiculaire Saint-Imier - Mont-Soleil SA.[4]

Further reading

  • 1903-2003: un siècle d'allers-retours (PDF) (in French), archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2019

References

  1. [1]
    Quelques données techniques (in French), archived from the original on 25 October 2009
  2. [2]
    Mathys, Ernst (1942), Hundert Jahre Schweizerbahnen, historisch und technisch dargestellt, 1841-1941; Les chemins de fer suisses au cours d'un siècle, aperçu historique et technique, 1841-1941 (in German and French), Bern, pp. 20, 68, 254{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. [3]
    Smallenburg, F. W. (1903–1904), "Le funiculaire St-Imier-Sonnenberg", Bulletin Technique de la Suisse Romande (in French), 29/30 (22/6): 293–298, 156–158
  4. [4]
    Organisation - Funiculaire Saint-Imier--Mont-Soleil (in French), archived from the original on 19 September 2021


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