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There is probably nowhere else in the world where you can get quite as close to the foot of high mountains by car or public transport.
And possibly nowhere else with such a diversity of forms of public transport in such a small area: rack railways, gondola cable ways, cable cars, funicular
railways and not forgetting the post buses with their fabulous horns.
Surprisingly, when I visited food and drink were as cheap if not cheaper than in the UK, but the transport, although superb, was as expensive if not more so.
Perched high on the side of the Wetterhorn Mountain you can spot the remains of a building.
This is the top station of the old Wetterhorn Cable Car, the first public cableway in the world.
As the plaque on the replica car that sits forlornly outside the Hotel Wetterhorn at the site
of the old base station explains, it was opened on the 27th July 1908 and ran successfully until 1915.
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