Route:

Zermatt – Visp – Brig – Andermatt / Göschenen – Disentis

Network length:

144 km

Track gauge:

Metre-gauge railway (1000 mm) / Standard gauge (1435 mm)

Passengers (2025):

10.1 million

Furka car transport (2025):

285,505 transported cars

Elevation gain:

3300 metres

Highest / lowest point:

Oberalp Pass 2033 m / Visp 625 m

Stations and stops:

44 (Shortest: Lax, longest: Fürgangen-Bellwald Talstation)

Number of bridges:

172

Longest bridge:

Rhône Bridge East Exit Brig (176 m)

Highest bridge:

Grengiols Viaduct (48 m)

Tunnels / galleries:

47 totalling 23,164 m / 38 totalling 4,819 m

Longest tunnel:

Furka Tunnel (15.4 km), opened 25 June 1982

Retaining walls / protection structures:

822 totalling 49,968 m / 22,404 protection structures

Rack railway sections:

32 km (13 sections), Abt system

Maximum gradient:

181‰ (Göschenen–Andermatt)

Staff:

695 employees (approx. 82% men, 18% women)

Rolling stock:

311 locomotives, trainsets, passenger and freight/transport wagons

Power system:

Single-phase AC (11 kW), 16 2/3 Hz

Line openings:

18.07.1891

Visp – Zermatt

30.06.1914

Brig – Gletsch

11.07.1917

Göschenen – Andermatt

03.07.1926

Gletsch – Andermatt – Disentis

05.06.1930

Visp – Brig

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