120 metre high waterfall

"The Final Problem"

A Sherlock Holmes memorial plaque at the cable car reminds us that Conan Doyle was so impressed by the wildness of this waterfall that he decided to have his world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes plunge into the Reichenbach Waterfall and die in a fight with his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.

The thundering waters of the Reichenbach Waterfall showed the bold engineers the way when they laid the tracks for the factory cable car in 1899. Eye to eye with the wild stream and the mighty 120-metre-high Reichenbach Waterfall, the nostalgic railway ascends with its faithfully reproduced 24-seater wooden carriage. Not far from the mountain station, three viewing terraces offer breathtaking views of the waterfall and Haslital. For Sherlock Holmes fans, this excursion is almost a must: this is where the famous detective challenged his arch-enemy Professor Moriaty to a fight - the fierce scuffle ended with a fall into the depths. Into this very waterfall.

The cable car takes visitors up to the platform where the final duel took place and is also the starting point for numerous hikes.

The bottom station of the Reichenbach Waterfall cable car can be reached from Meiringen railway station either by PostBus (5 minutes' walk from the Willigen, Dorf stop) or by the Meiringen-Innertkirchen cable car MIB (5 minutes' walk from the Alpbach stop). If you arrive by car, parking spaces are available.