Eigergletscher railway station

The Eiger glacier station is a railway station of the Jungfrau Railway. The Eiger glacier station is located at 2,320 m above sea level. M. on the edge of the Eiger glacier, which gave the name of the station.

The station is also the only workshop of the Jungfrau Railway. In it, all maintenance work and also revisions to the vehicles be carried out.

The station was inaugurated on September 19, 1898 by Adolf Guyer- Zeller and a Sermon at Grindelwald " glacier priest " Gottfried Strasser, in front of 400 invited guests. During the 16- year construction of the Jungfrau Railway Eiger glacier station was the center of the construction project. Immediately behind the station of the 7.2 km long tunnel starts Big to Jungfraujoch. Up to 200 employees - including 160 Italians - were housed at the station during the construction period. In summer, the supply was made over the few years earlier completed Wengernalpbahn, which leads to Kleine Scheidegg, the first station of the Jungfrau Railway. In winter, the construction workers were against cut off from the outside world and on their own. With the commissioning of the line Little Scheidegg - Jungfraujoch on August 1, 1912, the work was completed and the station lost its rural character. From the workers' barracks, the foundations are still visible today. For the 2 km route from Kleine Scheidegg to the Eiger glacier station, the Jungfrau Railway takes 7 minutes.

At the Eiger glacier station since 1912, a run of the Jungfrau Bahn AG hatchery for Greenland dogs. In the 2500 m² large enclosures are about 25 dogs who are cared for by a staff of three. The dogs are used inter alia for tourist dog sledding from the Jungfraujoch.

The Eiger glacier station operates the highest operating kitchen all tracks in Europe.