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World's steepest railway opens

The world's steepest funicular railway has opened in Switzerland. The track from the town of Schwyz up to the village of Stoos took fourteen years to build and rises three quarters of a kilometre in just four minutes. Alex Ritson reports.

(Photo: The world's steepest railway Credit: AFP)

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