Mühleggbahn

Mühleggbahn

Mühleggbahn

Funicular in St. Gallen, Switzerland

Mühleggbahn is a funicular in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It leads from a lower station south of the old town, near the abbey, at 676 m, to Mühlegg at 747 m in St. Georgen.[3][note 1] The 323 m-long[3] line functions as an inclined elevator with a single car, 287 m in a tunnel. Journey time is ca. 90 seconds.[6]

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The funicular is owned by "Mühleggbahn AG" and operated by Verkehrsbetriebe St. Gallen.[7]

History

When opened in 1894, the line worked as a water counterbalancing funicular with two cars and a passing loop. Water was drawn from Mühleggweiher at its upper station.[7]

The system was replaced in 1950 with a rack railway[4] that operated until 1975.[7][8]

On 7 May 1975 (1975-05-07), it was reopened as a funicular.[8] The car was replaced in 2004[7] and 2018, tracks in 2018.

  • Lower station with sign "Bangor" (2017)
  • Lower station (2022)
  • Upper station (2022)

Notes

  1. [N 1]
    [5] notes 673 m and 742 m (1999)

Further reading

  • Stadelmann, Werner (1993), 100 Jahre Mühleggbahn St. Gallen 1893-1993 (in German), St. Gallen: Ostschweiz Druck + Verlag AG

References

  1. [1]
    "2710: Mühleggbahn St. Gallen" (PDF), Fahrplanfelder.ch, Tableaux-horaires.ch (in German), 2022, 2710
  2. [2]
    "115c St. Gallen-Mühlegg", Amtliches Kursbuch (Postausgabe), 29.IX.1963—30.V.1964 (in German), 1963
  3. [3]
    Technische Daten (in German), Mühleggbahn AG
  4. [4]
    Gf. (1951), "Umstellung der Drahtseilbahn St. Gallen-Mühleck auf elektrischen Zahnradbetrieb", Die Schweiz: Offizielle Reisezeitschrift der Schweiz. Verkehrszentrale (4): III–IV
  5. [5]
    Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE; Federal Office of Transport BAV; Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications UVEK, eds. (January 2001), Touristische Transportanlagen der Schweiz, TTA–Statistik, 6. Auflage 1999; Installations de transport touristiques en Suisse, Statistique ITT, 6e édition 1999 (in German and French) (6 ed.), Bern, p. 90, 812.001 d/f 1.01 800, 61.053 Mühleggbahn (St. Gallen){{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. [6]
    Betriebszeiten, Fahrpreise (in German), Mühleggbahn AG
  7. [7]
    Ueber uns (in German), Mühleggbahn AG
  8. [8]
    "100 Jahre Mühleggbahn : 1893-1993", Region St.Gallen: Das St. Galler Jahrbuch: 73–79, 1994
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