BERN - BRIG & back Lötschbergbahn BLS Swiss rail cab ride 1959

Berner Oberland alpine journey south beside the BLS train driver from Bern to Brig and back, along the Aare valley along SBB/CFF route to Thun, the Lötschberg line via Spiez, zig-zagging and looping to gain height. The route is now a popular tourist thoroughfare linking Switzerland's capital city to Italy via Simplon with many mountain views. This 1959 original 8mm silent cine film uniquely captures vintage rail operations with narration voiced by Paul Russenberger in 1999.
This continues a sequence of journeys through the Bern Highlands • Berner Oberland, Eiger...
Mid route, take the long lost Spiez tram or Neisen funicular • NIESEN funicular & SPI...
From Interlaken's mountains • BERN Swiss mountain ra...
Jungfrau route to/through the Eiger • EIGER Jungfrau Swiss r...
To/from Zermatt & the Matterhorn • MATTERHORN Brig-Zermat...
Or explore Gotthard, Lucerne & Zurich lines • Gotthard/Lucerne/Zuric...
Bern-Thun BLS railway en.wikipedia.o...
Lötschberg line en.wikipedia.o...
BLS railway en.wikipedia.o...
BLS company en.wikipedia.o...
Bern en.wikipedia.o...
Bern Wankdorf en.wikipedia.o...
Gümligen en.wikipedia.o...
Allmendingen en.wikipedia.o...
Rubigen en.wikipedia.o...
Münsingen en.wikipedia.o...
Wichtrach en.wikipedia.o...
Kiesen en.wikipedia.o...
Uttigen en.wikipedia.o...
Thun en.wikipedia.o...
Spiez de.wikipedia.o...
Spiez tram (now bus) • NIESEN funicular & SPI...
Hondrich tunnels de.wikipedia.o...
Hondrich South
Heustrich-Emdtal
Mülenen de.wikipedia.o...
Neisen funicular • NIESEN funicular & SPI... de.wikipedia.o...
Reichenbach im Kandertal de.wikipedia.o...
Wengi-Ey / Wengi
Frutigen de.wikipedia.o...
Kander viaduct
Kandergrund de.wikipedia.o...
Fürten, Felsenburg tunnels
Blausee-Mitholz de.wikipedia.o...)
Feschfluh, Haltenwald-Fürtfluh, Ronenwald, Bunderbach loop tunnels de.wikipedia.o...
Stronghold
Rotbach, Hemligen, Riedschuk tunnels, Büel, Sarengraben tunnel
Kandersteg de.wikipedia.o... de.wikipedia.o...
Eggenschwand
Lötschberg Tunnel de.wikipedia.o...
Scheitelpunkt
Goppenstein de.wikipedia.o...
Lonza bridge, Rotlaui tunnel
Stockgraben
Mittalgraben, Luegie, Hohegg, Marchgraben, Hohtenn tunnels
Hohtenn de.wikipedia.o...
Luegelkinn bridge, Schluchi, Lidenplatten tunnels, Ijollibach bridge, Blasboden tunnel
Rarnerkumme
Bietschtal, Sevistein, Mahnkinn, Doren tunnels and bridge
Ausserberg de.wikipedia.o...
Gründen tunnel
Viktoria, Baltschieder, Eggerberg tunnels and bridge
Eggerberg de.wikipedia.o...
Stadel tunnel, Finnengraben bridge
Lalden de.wikipedia.o...
Bad, Mundbach bridges
Rhone Brig viaduct
Brig de.wikipedia.o...
Gradient profile en.wikipedia.o...
Route map de.wikipedia.o...
Signalling & new route www.lococarria...
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[@martinmarsola6477]

A fine video. Thank you! ❤😊

[@tankmicr00man]

Reminds me of our 1960s touring holidays based in Brienz. We used the car ferry depicted!

[@christopherbentley5216]

Excellent

[@duncancurtis5108]

The Swiss were decades ahead of everyone else with their railroads even with electric trains.

[@officialmcdeath]

Beautiful artifact, as ever, thank you! Interesting to see the curve below Blausee Mitholz, the site of the still unstable Mitholz magazine - the fate of the whole valley is yet to be determined \m/