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A one-day trip in panoramic-view cars takes tourists from St. Moritz to Zermatt, or vice versa, through some of the most spectacular scenery of the Alps. It is the longest long-distance train service in Switzerland. The journey from Zermatt to St. Moritz takes about 8 hours.
The fastest Swiss train is the SBB RABe 501, nicknamed Giruno (Romansh for Buzzard). It is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways since May 2016. It only reaches its maximum speed of 250 km/h (155 mph) in Italy, on the Swiss network it operates at a maximum of 200 km/h (125 mph).
The Swiss Federal Railways run some 5000 passenger train services covering about 274,000 kilometres (170,000 mi) daily. Half of these train services are long-distance services; the other half are regional and suburban services. In 2013, 366 million passengers used the Swiss Federal Railways.
The train ride from Zürich to Bern takes one hour; crossing the entire Swiss Plateau from St. Gallen to Geneva takes four hours. The two most important Swiss airports are situated on the plateau, Zurich Airport and Geneva Cointrin Airport. The de facto capital of Switzerland, Bern, has only a small airport, Bern Belpmoos Airport.
A train on the open-air section of the Jungfrau Railway, the highest in Europe. This is a list of mountain railways in operation in Switzerland.It includes railways that overcome steep gradients (over 5%) or whose culminating point is over 800 m (2,600 ft) above sea level.
Six lines serve Swiss and French towns along 230 km of railway. At the heart of the Léman Express system is the CEVA (Cornavin‒Eaux-Vives‒Annemasse) rail project linking Eaux-Vives station with Cornavin station in Geneva. This line, largely underground, was opened on 15 December 2019.
Introduced in 2013, it is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). From 1958 to 2010 a train of the same name linked Basel or Zürich with Vienna (see history below). The name of the train alludes to the fact that it crosses the Alps.
The third largest train station in Switzerland by passenger numbers behind Zürich HB and Bern, with 156,000 users on average per working day in 2022, [5] it sees over 720 train departures every day from its eight through-platforms. Platforms 7 and 8 have French and Swiss border controls.
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