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The Gotthard Panorama Express is a tourist-oriented boat and panoramic train line which connects Lucerne to Lugano, crossing the Swiss Alps from North to South through the Gotthard crest tunnel. Until 2017, the train was known as the William Tell Express ( German : Wilhelm Tell Express ).
This is a route-map template for the Gotthard Panorama Express, a railway in Switzerland.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
GoldenPass Express, a luxury train that operates between Montreux and Interlaken Ost; Gotthard Panorama Express, which uses the Gotthard Railway between Arth-Goldau / Flüelen and Lugano (combines with a voyage on Lake Lucerne between Lucerne and Flüelen) Previously, the Voralpen Express also ran as a PE, but it was subsequently changed to ...
The Gotthard Base Tunnel, running from a point near Erstfeld to a point near Biasca, opened to traffic on 1 June 2016, with full service starting in December of that year. With a route length of 57.1 km (35.5 mi), this is the world's longest railway tunnel , surpassing the Seikan Tunnel in Japan.
In addition, two Panorama Express (PE) services are operated on the Rhaetian Railway network, namely the Bernina Express (Chur / St. Moritz – Tirano), Glacier Express (Zermatt – Andermatt – Chur – St. Moritz), of which the former is operated by the RhB, and the latter is jointly owned and operated by the RhB and the Matterhorn Gotthard ...
The Bernina Express is popular with tourists. It connects in Tirano with a bus service via Lake Como in Italy to Lugano in Switzerland, [1] [2] with connections to the Gotthard Panorama Express, another tourist train. The Albula line and the Bernina line on the Bernina Express's route were jointly declared a World Heritage Site in 2008.
The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland. The track width is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). It was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) and BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ). The name comes from the Matterhorn and St. Gotthard Pass.
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.