Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Brünig railway line (German: Brünigbahn) is a Swiss metre gauge rack railway line that links Lucerne, with Interlaken, in the canton of Bern, via Alpnachstad, Giswil, Meiringen and Brienz. The line passes over the Brünig Pass, using sections of the Riggenbach rack system to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal adhesion methods.The line is 74 kilometres (46 mi) long. It opened in stages between 1888 and 1916, and was, between 1903 and 2004, the only narrow gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways. Today the line forms part, along with the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, of the Zentralbahn railway company.The line is served by hourly InterRegio trains that operate the full length of the line, together with hourly Regio trains that operate between Interlaken and Meiringen, and twice-hourly trains between Lucerne and Giswil. The latter trains operate as Lucerne S-Bahn line S5. The section of line between Hergiswil and Lucerne is shared with trains on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, including a further InterRegio train per hour, and the twice-hourly Lucerne S-Bahn line S4.. }
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- Brünig_railway_line abstract "The Brünig railway line (German: Brünigbahn) is a Swiss metre gauge rack railway line that links Lucerne, with Interlaken, in the canton of Bern, via Alpnachstad, Giswil, Meiringen and Brienz. The line passes over the Brünig Pass, using sections of the Riggenbach rack system to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal adhesion methods.The line is 74 kilometres (46 mi) long. It opened in stages between 1888 and 1916, and was, between 1903 and 2004, the only narrow gauge line of the Swiss Federal Railways. Today the line forms part, along with the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, of the Zentralbahn railway company.The line is served by hourly InterRegio trains that operate the full length of the line, together with hourly Regio trains that operate between Interlaken and Meiringen, and twice-hourly trains between Lucerne and Giswil. The latter trains operate as Lucerne S-Bahn line S5. The section of line between Hergiswil and Lucerne is shared with trains on the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line, including a further InterRegio train per hour, and the twice-hourly Lucerne S-Bahn line S4.".