Grütschalp is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

on the Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren, a hybrid cable car and rail link that connects the villages of Lauterbrunnen and Mürren in the

Bernese Oberland The Bernese Oberland (; ; ), sometimes also known as the Bernese Highlands, is the highest and southernmost part of the canton of Bern. It is one of the canton's five administrative regions (in which context it is referred to as ''Oberland'' witho ...

region of

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. Grütschalp is the point of interchange between the cable car from Lauterbrunnen and the high-level railway from Mürren. The Lauterbrunnen-Mürren line opened in 1891, but until 2006 the connection between Lauterbrunnen and Grütschalp was affected by Seilbahn Lauterbrunnen–Grütschalp, a

funicular railway A funicular ( ) is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized by two counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached to opposite ends ...

. The current cable car replaced this when the funicular was damaged by landslides, and uses the same route and adapted terminal stations. The Lauterbrunnen-Mürren line also handles goods traffic to and from Mürren. This is done by carrying the goods in

pallet A pallet (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a Loader (equipment), front loader, a Jack (mechanical), jacking device, or an erect cra ...

s that are carried under the cable car and on flat cars towed by the railcars. The pallets are transferred between the two by a complicated machine, part fork lift truck and part funicular, within the Grütschalp station complex. The complex also houses the workshops of the line. The station is served by the following passenger trains:

Gallery

Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren 2018-09-05 12.16.36.jpg, Aerial cablecar at the station (2018) File:Grütschalp Freight Transfer Machinery.jpg, The transfer machinery (2012) File:Gimmelwald-Grütschalp 29.07.2009 17-14-19.JPG, Car in the workshops (2009) Station Grütschalp (Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren).jpg, Map (1928)

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Video of the transfer machinery at Grütschalp in operation
Railway stations in the canton of Bern {{Switzerland-railstation-stub