The electric railway, started nearly three years ago from the base to the summit of the Jungfrau Mountain, is to be abandoned. lhe cost has proved to be far heavier than the engineers anticipated, and now, after three years' work, the whole scheme is to be relinquished. Many say that its Abandonment is a good thing, for (states the King) whereas other mountain railways, such as those up the Pilatus, the Rigi, and our own Snowdon, enable a tourist to visit places and scenes which are immensely interesting, and which can only be reached with much labour, and in some cases e* en danger, the incompleted Jungfrau liailw.vy was to carry a tourist to such an altitude as would be absolutely injurious to anyone whose heart or lungs were not of the strongest. Indeed, so rarefied is the air at the summit of the Jungfrau that no one could stay there much beyond half an hour without feeling ill.,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11544, 1 December 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)
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