>>2034884The Grand Hotel Giessbach is located next to Lake Brienz and has a funicular that leads to it from the lake, where there's the pier. So you get there from Interlaken by steamer (there's even still one actual steamship running on this lake) and then change to the funicular to reach the resort hotel.
The funicular, called Giessbachbahn, is very notable for being the oldest funicular still in operation in Switzerlandm and the fourth-oldest in Europe, dating from 1879. Its cars date from 1891 albeit modified and rebuilt. Originally this funicular just like many others worked with water ballast (the cars had a water tank that was filled at the top and emptied at the bottom, so that the descending car would pull the other one up). This was converted to turbine power in 1912 (ie a "motor" but driven directly by a water turbine) and to electric power in 1948. It's also one of the very few funiculars that still use a rack for the emergency brake.
