Muttbach-Belvédère railway station
Muttbach-Belvédère | |||||||||||
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DFB train at Muttbach-Belvédère, July 2006. | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Obergoms Switzerland | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°34′1.93″N 8°24′15.57″E / 46.5672028°N 8.4043250°E | ||||||||||
| Elevation | 2,118 m (6,949 ft) | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Furka Steam Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Furka Steam Railway | ||||||||||
| Distance | 9.206 km (5.720 mi) from Realp DFB | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Train operators | Furka Steam Railway | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 8501634 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 3 July 1926 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1 July 1942 | ||||||||||
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Muttbach-Belvédère railway station (Alemannic German: Haltestelle Muttbach-Belvédère) is a metre gauge railway passenger facility, at the western portal of the Furka Summit Tunnel, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland.
In the Swiss German dialect, the expression Haltestelle normally refers to a railway facility without points or switches, where scheduled trains are allowed to stop, depart or terminate. Muttbach-Belvédère is not strictly a facility of that kind, because it is actually a crossing loop, with a point or switch at each end. Nevertheless, the word Haltestelle is the expression most often used to describe it, perhaps because for such a rudimentary facility, Haltestelle seems more appropriate than Bahnhof.
Between 1926 and 1981, Muttbach-Belvédère formed part of the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO). The portion of the FO on which it is located was then replaced by the Furka Base Tunnel in 1982. Since being reopened in 2000, Muttbach-Belvédère has been owned and operated by a heritage railway, the Furka Steam Railway (German: Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke) (DFB).