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Discover the history of the railway: The Albula Railway Museum

Discover the history of the railway: The Albula Railway Museum -

Go back in time to the pioneers of the Rhaetian Railway. Treasures from more than 100 years of railway history awaits you at the Albula Railway Museum.

The Albula Railway Museum in Bergün transports train enthusiasts and families alike back through the railway history of Graubünden. Some 600 exhibits bear witness to over a century of pioneering railway history, showing how people, the railway and the landscape all left their mark on each other. Pensioned-off station clocks, historical documents and building plans of the railway’s infrastructure bring alive the history and significance of the spectacular UNESCO World Heritage line between Thusis and Tirano.
The Railway Museum has plenty of experiences and attractions for both young and old, as children and railway enthusiasts all love to try their hand at operating the Crocodile locomotive driving simulator, while serious fans and casual visitors alike admire the model workshop or gather to enjoy the interactive experience or exhibition.
Those wishing to delve deeper into the history of the line can follow the Albula Railway Experience Walk. Running from Bergün to Preda, it shows what the original Swiss railway pioneers faced, in the shape of the imposing mountains and rushing wild streams that they tackled when building the impressive structures that still mark the route.

Albula Railway Museum Slideshow

Albula Railway Museum Slideshow

Treasures from more than 100 years of railway history awaits you at the Albula Railway Museum.

  • Take a virtual footplate ride through the Albula Valley aboard original Crocodile locomotive CC 407. “Drive” this legendary locomotive with your hands on the actual switches and levers.
  • The model is strikingly similar to the original. Built by Bernhard Tarnutzer to a scale of 1:45, the model railway shows the buildings, viaducts and tunnels of the Rhaetian Railway as they would have been between 1950 and 1960.
  • The ever-growing collection of the railway museum includes more than 600 original exhibits. Items of memorabilia relating to the operation of the RhB are included in the permanent exhibition or shown to visitors in the exhibition depot in the basement.
  • Two topographic models made to scales of 1:20 000 and 1:10 000 respectively show off the landscape of Albula Valley in miniaturised format.
  • Historic pictures, original texts and 3D animations explain the planning and construction of the line in a manner designed to be understandable for non-specialists.
Bergün: A municipality in the Alps

Bergün: A municipality in the Alps

The historical witness can be seen everywhere in Bergün. However, the municipality is not only interesting from a historical point of view, but it also offers a beautiful scenery. Since 2008 the municipality has been part oft he cultural landscape oft he UNESCO World Heritage RhB.

Around and about the tunnel: The region

Around and about the tunnel: The region

The Albula Tunnel and the Albula Line – both are engineering masterpieces. But the region around the Albula Tunnel could well have been designed by a master craftsman too: Sometimes wild and rough; sometimes soft and gentle – this is the virtuoso play of opposites that Mother Nature stages around here.