Tiefenbach DFB railway station

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Tiefenbach DFB railway station (Alemannic German: Haltestelle Tiefenbach) is a metre gauge railway passenger facility, on the eastern side of the Furka Pass, in the Canton of Uri, Switzerland. In the Swiss German dialect, the expression Haltestelle normally refers to a railway facility without point

s or switches, where scheduled trains are allowed to stop, depart or terminate. Tiefenbach 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, Tiefenbach 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 1992, Tiefenbach has been owned and operated by a heritage railway, the Furka Steam Railway (German: Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke) (DFB).

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