Zentralbahn

Zentralbahn operates on its route network between Lucerne and Engelberg, between Lucerne and Interlaken and on the Meiringen–Innertkirchen line. It carries commuters to their places of work or training, tourists to sights and the general public in its catchment area to events. Its official history page also describes the Brünig Railway before 1900 and after 1900.

Zentralbahn's official history page states that Zentralbahn operates on its route network between Lucerne and Engelberg, between Lucerne and Interlaken and on the Meiringen–Innertkirchen line. The same page describes the Brünig Railway before 1900: in 1888, the first trains on the Jura–Bern–Lucerne Railway ran between Alpnachstad and Brienz, with a two-axle steam locomotive hauling three light passenger coaches over the Brünig Pass; each of the six daily trains could seat 90 passengers; from Lucerne to Alpnachstad, passengers travelled by steamboat; to get to Interlaken, they had to transfer again in Brienz; and the journey time between Lucerne and Interlaken was around six hours. It also states that in 1889, the first reduction in journey time between Lucerne and Alpnachstad came with the opening of the Lopper Tunnel. For the Brünig Railway after 1900, the page states that by 1890, the fledgeling company had already become part of the Jura–Simplon–Lucerne Railway and in 1903 it was integrated into Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

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