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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 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.
Alps: Rigi Kulm: 1,752 m (5,748 ft) 25% 1,435 mm: Yes Rail crossing at Rigi Staffel, dead-end rail to the summit Oldest mountain rack railway in Europe (1873), highest standard gauge in Europe, rail crossing involves change of train at Rigi Staffel Chur–Arosa: Graubünden: Alps: Arosa: 1,739 m (5,705 ft) 6% 1,000 mm: No Dead-end rail ...
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.
On the historic track only the Gotthard Railway trains up to 1,300 t (2.9 × 10 ^ 6 lb) [26] when using two locomotives or up to 1,500 t (3.3 × 10 ^ 6 lb) with an additional bank engine at the end of the train are able to pass through the narrow mountain valleys and through spiral tunnels climbing up to the portals of the old tunnel at a ...
The Glacier Express is a direct Panorama Express (PE) train connecting railway stations of the two major mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz via Andermatt in the central Swiss Alps. The train provides a one-seat ride for an 8-hour end-to-end 291-kilometre (181 mi) journey, and omits stops made by local trains.
The first stage of the Rail 2000 project finished in 2005, included a new high-speed rail track between Bern and Olten with an operating speed of 200 km/h (125 mph).. The second stage of Rail 2000, still in project, includes line upgrades in the Valais canton (200 km/h (125 mph)) and between Biel and Solothurn (also 200 km/h (125 mph)).
In 1975, a writer for Fodor's travel guides described the Transalpin as "one of the best trains in Europe for mountain scenery". [ 6 ] In 1980, a trip on the Transalpin from Zürich to Vienna was featured in "Changing Trains", the final episode in Series 1 of Great Railway Journeys of the World , a BBC TV travel documentary .