Scenic route
Gornergrat Bahn
Zermatt → Gornergrat · Switzerland
- Distance
- 9 km
- Fastest time
- 33 min
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- Gornergrat Bahn
- Train
- Rack railway
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1898
Europe’s highest open-air railway climbs from Zermatt to 3,089 m — the Matterhorn framed in the window from the first curve to the summit ridge.
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