Mount Pilatus Train

Mount Pilatus Train

The schedules are aligned in such a way that you never have to wait long for the train journey up the mountain. Such exceptional steepness bore the risk that the driving teeth used at the time would jump out of engagement.

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Mount pilatus train. The top can be reached with the pilatus railway the world s steepest cogwheel railway from alpnachstad operating from may to november depending on snow conditions and the whole year with the aerial panorama gondolas and aerial cableways from kriens. Pilatusbahn pb is a mountain railway in switzerland and is the steepest rack railway in the world with a maximum gradient of 48 and an average gradient of 35. Tickets for the cable lifts and cogwheel train to mount pilatus so you can explore at your own pace without a guide.

More on that below. The facility is not in operation from 19 october 6 november 2020 due to inspection. Gondola and aerial cableway.

That is the steepest cogwheel railway in the world in figures. Both the train station and the docks are opposite the cogwheel railway so it can t be missed. Arrival by car or bus.

Take the train to lucerne main railway station then bus no. The railway cableways hotels and restaurants of the pilatus bahnen ag will remain closed until further notice in accordance with the federal council s ordinance. Meter by meter it scales the way from alpnachstad to pilatus kulm passing alpine meadows and striking rock formations.

Since well over one hundred years the rail cars of the pilatus railway have climbed to the summit of the imposing mount pilatus on the boldest cogwheel railway in the world. Since 1889 from alpnach and up the pilatus commissioned in 1889 a gradient of up to 48 percent about 30 minutes travel time. 41 0 41 329 13 13.

On the pilatus live page you will find webcams lift status and current weather reports. Once you reach alpnachstad either by train or by boat you ll get a ticket for the cogwheel train to mt. Traveling with a disability.

A boat ride from alpnachstad to lucerne or vice versa is included as well. Information and reservations office hours. You can start in kriens and end in lucerne or the other way round.

1 direction kriens to stop kriens zentrum pilatus approx. 41 0 41 329 11. Mount pilatus experience the beauty of pilatus on the world s steepest cogwheel railway round trip travel to mount pilatus from alpnachstad by cogwheel railway or from kriens by panorama gondola and aerial cableway magnificent views from 7 000 feet 2 132 meters above sea level.

15 minutes then 5 minute walk to valley station kriens. Arrival and location plan. The pilatus railway german.

At a maximum gradient of 48 it is the steepest cogwheel railway in the world and the only one of its kind.