Visit to the Rheineck-Walzenhausen cog railway in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland on July 17, 2024
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If you get off the S-Bahn at Rheineck station on platform 1, you will immediately notice a very short platform with a single track with a gauge of just 1200mm located in the middle of platform 1. A little later, a small railcar arrives and stops precisely at the short platform of the Rheineck-Walzenhausen mountain railway. The BDeh1/2 railcar was built in 1958 and has been the only vehicle on the small rack railway since then, and has been running tirelessly on the 1.96 km long route ever since. The overhead wire voltage is 600 volts direct current. So we get in and tickets are available from the machine. The journey begins with pure adhesion drive to the depot at the Ruderbach request stop, where the Riggenbach rack begins and the driver has to enter the rack section particularly slowly. From now on it goes steeply uphill and the railway disappears into the 315m long protective tunnel. After leaving the tunnel, the characteristics of the railway change completely, from a simple tram to a real mountain railway. With a maximum gradient of 253 per thousand, which is reached in the Walzenhausen tunnel at the end of the route, it is the second steepest cog railway in all of Switzerland. The small Walzenhausen mountain station is an inconspicuous functional building in the heart of the former fashionable spa town. Unfortunately, due to a sharp drop in passenger numbers and increased costs in recent years, there have been discussions about shutting down the small railway and replacing it with buses. Fortunately, this was prevented and the RhW is set to operate as the world's first fully automatic cog railway from 2026. The first signs are already visible thanks to the provisional installation of various measuring technology on the old railcar. This is probably intended to determine data for later automatic operation. It remains to be seen whether the project can be implemented on time. But you shouldn't wait too long to take another trip on the old railcar between Rheineck and Walzenhausen.
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