The 74 km (46 mile) meter gauge Brünigbahn links Luzern with Interlaken in the Bernese Oberland. The line runs via Alpnachstad, Giswil, Meiringen and Brienz, and passes over the Brünig Pass, using sections of rack railway to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal adhesion.
The line was opened in stages between 1888 and 1916, and was, between 1903 and 2004, the only narrow gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways. It was electrified in 1941 and 1942, using the standard Swiss mainline 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC from overhead.
Today the line forms part, along with the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, of the Zentralbahn company.

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