Tiefenbach DFB | |||||||||||
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 Facilities at the station in 2020 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Realp Switzerland | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°35′9″N 8°28′13″E / 46.58583°N 8.47028°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 1,846 m (6,056 ft) | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Furka Steam Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Furka Steam Railway | ||||||||||
| Train operators | Furka Steam Railway | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 3 July 1926 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1 July 1942 | ||||||||||
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Tiefenbach DFB railway station (Alemannic German: Haltestelle Tiefenbach) is a metre gauge railway passenger facility, on the eastern side of the Furka Pass, in the Canton of Uri, Switzerland.
In the Swiss German dialect, the expression Haltestelle normally refers to a railway facility without points or switches, where scheduled trains are allowed to stop, depart or terminate.[1] Tiefenbach is not strictly a facility of that kind, because it is actually a crossing loop, with a point or switch at each end.[2] Nevertheless, the word Haltestelle is the expression most often used to describe it, perhaps because for such a rudimentary facility, Haltestelle seems more appropriate than Bahnhof.
Between 1926 and 1981, Tiefenbach formed part of the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO). The portion of the FO on which it is located was then replaced by the Furka Base Tunnel in 1982. Since being reopened in 1992, Tiefenbach has been owned and operated by a heritage railway, the Furka Steam Railway (German: Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke) (DFB).
- ^ Haltepunkt, Retrieved 20 July 2010[circular reference]
- ^ "Travel report Realp-Furka-Gletsch". Furka Steam Railway official site. Archived from the original on 26 December 2009. Retrieved 20 July 2010.