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Wengen and is
* June 20 – The Wengernalpbahn railway in Wengen, Switzerland ( Canton of Bern ) is opened.
* 1995 Wengen station is rebuilt to include a freight delivery terminal.
* 2009 The track is lifted on the old line between Lauterbrunnen and Wengen.
The busiest stretch of railway runs from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen as this is also used to transport goods to traffic-free Wengen.
The population of the Lauterbrunnen village is less than that of Wengen, but greater than that of the others.
In winter, Kleine Scheidegg is the centre of the ski area around Grindelwald and Wengen.
Wengen is a village in the Bernese Oberland in the canton of Bern, located in central Switzerland at an elevation of 1274 m ( 4180 ft .) above sea level, and is part of the Jungfrauregion.
Wengen is in the middle foreground with Lauterbrunnen in the valley below ; on the far side of the valley is the Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen – Mürren | Mürren cableway from Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp.
Wengen is serviced by the Rack railway system Wengernalpbahn ( WAB ), and the village is accessible directly from Lauterbrunnen, or by train from Grindelwald via Kleine Scheidegg, as well as by a series of gondola lifts from Grindelwald via Mannlichen.
The rail service from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen railway station runs daily from early in the morning until very late at night and is the most intensively operated section of the Wengernalpbahn.
Wengen hosts the internationally well-known Lauberhorn ski races, and it is on the route of the Jungfrau Marathon.
The Lauberhorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, located between Wengen and Grindelwald, north of the Kleine Scheidegg.
The mountain is best known as the site of the Lauberhorn alpine ski races (), held annually above Wengen in the Bernese Oberland.
* The course's starting elevation is 7595 feet ( 2315 m ) above sea level ; it descends 3363 vertical feet ( 1025 m ) to the finish at 4232 feet ( 1290 m ) in Wengen.
Phil Mahre is the only U. S. racer to take the slalom event at Wengen, winning in 1982.
The Wengernalp is an alpine meadow at an elevation of 1874 m, between Wengen and Kleine Scheidegg in the Swiss Alps.
Mürren is situated within the canton of Bern, in the district of Interlaken and belongs to the political commune of Lauterbrunnen, together with the districts of Wengen, Isenfluh, Gimmelwald, Stechelberg and Lauterbrunnen.
The village is connected by the Luftseilbahn Stechelberg-Mürren-Schilthorn ( LSMS ), an aerial tramway, to the car-free skiing and hiking villages of Gimmelwald, Mürren and the Schilthorn, and over on the other side of the valley above the cliffs sits the car free village and resort of Wengen.
* June 20 – The Wengernalpbahn mountain railway in Wengen, Switzerland ( Canton of Bern ) is opened.

Wengen and Club
By 1903 Wengen had an Anglican Church and two years later, Sir Henry Lunn formed the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club with Wengen as a destination ski area for the members.
* Ski Club Wengen: History

Wengen and one
Locomotive 32 pushes a freight train approaching Wengen with the old original line just visible approaching the new one.
The Wengernalpbahn has two branches: one begins at Grindelwald ; the other commences at Lauterbrunnen and climbs to the pass via Wengen.
Every day one or two goods trains goes from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen and back carrying large items such as furniture.

Wengen and British
In 1902, he organised his first inclusive tours at Adelboden and Wengen, Switzerland, which started the trend for British visitors to combine a religious / health retreat with winter sports.

Wengen and ski
The well known hiking and ski resorts in the eastern Oberland are located around Interlaken and the Jungfrau, such as car-free Mürren and Wengen in the Lauterbrunnen valley, and Grindelwald.
Also during this period, Lunn invented, and introduced in Wengen, the first slalom race, in which skiers followed the terrain through the trees, replaced with ski gates in later years.
Since 1930, the Lauberhorn ski races have been held in Wengen.
* Wengen ski school history

Wengen and .
In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen ( Lauberhorn Race ), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen ; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria.
Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.
# 300r: Von Wengen ( Burchard, fl.
Racers on a typical international-level course exceed speeds of 130 km / h ( 81 mph ) and some courses, such as the notable Lauberhorn course in Wengen, Switzerland, and the Hahnenkamm course in Kitzbühel, Austria, speeds of up to 150 km / h ( 93 mph ) in certain sections are common.
* 1892 The first steam locomotive reaches Wengen on 18 April and Kleine Scheidegg on 10 August.
Opening of the longer but less steep Lauterbrunnen to Wengen route on 7 July.
* 2007 Plans are announced to decommission and dismantle the old line between Lauterbrunnen and Wengen because of the steep gradient of 25 % and the geological security risks.
* 2011 New double track loop opened between Wengen and Allmend allowing the introduction of a clock-face timetable between Lauterbrunnen and Kleine Scheidegg.
Between Lauterbrunnen and Wengen, trains run all year every half hour until early evening, followed by an hourly service.
Following the construction of the new loop between Wengen and Allmend, the number of trains in each direction has been reduced from 5 to 4 in each 2-hour period, but departure and journey times have been standardised.
The Jungfrau was climbed via the west side for the first time in 1885 by Fritz and Heinrich von Allmen, Ulrich Brunner, Fritz Graf, Karl Schlunegger and Johann Stäger — all from Wengen.
The train into the mountain leaves from Kleine Scheidegg, which can be reached by trains from Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen via Wengen.
The Schilthorn above Mürren or the Männlichen above Wengen offer good views of the Jungfrau and other summits.
The municipality lies in the Lauterbrunnen Valley and comprises the villages Lauterbrunnen, Wengen, Mürren, Gimmelwald, Stechelberg, and Isenfluh.
They started at 3: 00 a. m. from Wengen.

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