The rhythm of yesteryear

From 1902 to 1980 the Bregenzerwald was connected to the Vorarlberg capital of Bregenz and Lake Constance by a typically Austrian 760mm gauge railway. For the whole of its working life the Bregenzerwald railway had to wage a continuous struggle against the forces of nature, especially through the river gorges that affected roughly half of its 35 kilometre length. In the end an enormous rock fall near Kennelbach brought a final end to through traffic on the railway.