Passengers on a funicular railway in the Bernese Oberland had to be flown down the mountains by helicopter as an electrical fault stopped the train.
The power on the Niesenbahn above Lake Thun went out on Saturday evening at around 7. It took six hours to bring 140 passengers to safety.
They were taken to Reichenbach Airport, near the famous waterfall, where buses took them back to the base of the train.
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