The Jungfrau Railway - the pioneers' road and a masterpiece among the mountain railways, was launched into service in 1912. The train in a gear train raises passengers from Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch Pass, on the "summit of Europe" at a height of 3454 m. This is the highest mountain European railway. 7 of 9 km of tracks are laid in a tunnel in the Eiger and Munch cliffs. The train stops for 5 minutes at each of the intermediate stations so that travelers can admire the mountains through the panoramic views.

The construction of the road began in 1896, but this process became long, difficult, and required much more financial investments than originally planned. The road was opened 9 years after the planned date. Special locomotives were required, as half of the route involved traction and half of the route was driven by a gear drive (and this continued until 1951.)

The final length of the railway line was almost 10 km from maximum slope of 25% and a speed of about 12 km / h (when driving under the hill it doubles). By the end of the 20th century, the annual number of passengers on the Jungfrau road exceeded half a million, and at the beginning of the 21st century their daily number reached almost 10 thousand.

The Jungfrau train passes 3 stops along the way . The first, "Eigergletcher", is named after the adjacent glacier and is at an altitude of 2320 m . It became the last Jungfrau station in the open air . Already the next station, "Eigervand", is underground, in the tunnel, at an altitude of 2864 m . The only way to pop To this station, not by the Jungfrau train - through the door in the rock, which opens directly to a smooth vertical slope (sometimes rescuers use it) . Finally, Eismir is located at an altitude of 3158 m and also in a tunnel, just beyond the south- east slope of the Eiger . The main purpose of the station is to allow passengers to admire from the train windows to the glacier Grindelwald-Fiesher .

Trains depart twice an hour from the lower station Kleine Scheidegg. You can also reach it by train on lines from Lauterbrunnen or Grindelwald.