Alp Grüm (Rhaetian Railway station)
Because Palu seen The station Alp Grüm and Lagh of Li Mandri from
The Alp Grüm is a very famous through their station settlement in the municipality of Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Below the Pru dal Vent at the edge of the first Gefällstufe of Poschiavo is which emerged from a spring pasture settlement, which has a station at an altitude of 2'091 m above sea level. M. lies. The current station building, both buffet and Hotel, opened in 1926.
The not answer the road network connected settlement is accessible all year round by rail. The mule track which taps the settlement is locked only accessible in summer and for motorized traffic.
Rail traffic
The train station Alp Grüm the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) is located on the Bernina line from Pontresina to Tirano. It is located on the south side of the Bernina Pass and is the last station on the route in the German language area.
The route from Ospizio Bernina to Poschiavo, where the designed as a cross Station is, was opened by the Bernina Railway Company on June 5, 1910.
From the train station you have, thanks mainly to the south of the station deeper 180 -degree curve, a wide view on the Palu Glacier, Lake Palu and into the Poschiavo valley. From here, the trains of the RhB in narrow, partly covered curves and bends and five spiral tunnels meander with a gradient of up to 70 ‰ down to Poschiavo ( Italian-speaking Switzerland ).
Avalanche accidents
In the avalanche night of 28 February 1937, under Alp Grüm an accident in which railway employees were recognized on the run from a fixed train by an avalanche occurred. Three railway workers were killed.
On January 3, 1951 avalanche swept directly at the station Alp Grüm a track plow and a railcar in the depth, where the train master was killed. The railcar was recovered only in the spring.
Movies
- The Bernina Express to St. Moritz - Alp Grüm. Railway DVD Courier, 2007, 117 minutes