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The station is situated at the summit of the Gornergrat, in the Swiss municipality of Zermatt and canton of Valais. At an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft) above mean sea level , it is the highest open-air railway station in Europe.
The Gornergrat railway station is situated at an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft), which makes the Gornergrat Railway the second highest railway in Europe after the Jungfrau, and the highest open-air railway of the continent. The line opened in 1898, and was the first electric rack railway to be built in Switzerland.
The station code used today is colloquially called the DS 100 code, named after the original papers of the Deutsche Bundesbahn laying out the system, the DS 100, Abkürzungen der Betriebsstellen; nowadays called Richtlinie (Ril) 100, Abkürzungen für Örtlichkeiten. Every code specifies abbreviation, name and type of the station.
The Gornergrat railway station, the highest (open-air) railway station building on the continent. This is a list of railway stations in Switzerland located at an elevation over 1,200 metres above sea level.
It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB), the highest open-air railway in Europe. Between the Gornergrat railway station (3,090 m (10,140 ft)) and the summit is the Kulm Hotel (3,120 m (10,240 ft)). In the late 1960s two astronomical observatories were installed in the two towers of the Kulmhotel Gornergrat. The ...
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The Gornergrat railway station, the highest (open-air) railway station building on the continent. This is a list of high-altitude railway stations in Europe.It includes any railway station or location with passenger railway services (on adhesion or rack railways), located at an elevation of over 2,000 metres above sea level.
KLR: Kalmar railway station, Sweden (6 km from the airport) KSD: Karlstad railway station, Sweden (17 km from the airport) L. LEJ: Leipzig/Halle Airport station, Schkeuditz, Germany; LHR: London Heathrow stations: Central, T2,3, T4 tube, T4 rail, T5 (all inside Heathrow Airport perimeter). LPI: Linköping railway station, Sweden (3 km from the ...