Great Swiss Train Rides
Switzerland has the world’s best railroad system, as we demonstrate here, taking you on the great train rides of Switzerland. Come along as we ride the most spectacular rail routes through this mountainous country and provide you with lots of train travel tips.
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With brief highlights in each town, this is also a summary of our entire 15-movie Swiss series taking you from one end of the country to the other.
01:41 Lugano to Lucerne
05:33 Lucerne, Titlis, Rigi, Pilatus, Burgenstock
08:30 Zurich
12:08 Brunig Pass, Lucerne to Interlaken
17:04 Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen, Jungfrau
18:36 to Zermatt
23:32 Zermatt
25:40 to Locarno via Centovalli
36:30 Lugano
37:58 Basel
42:08 to Lausanne, Lake Geneva
46:06 Lausanne
48:24 Glacier Express
51:02 Bernina Express
This scenic journey is also a practical guide to help you plan your own vacation. We present scenery to die for out the windows: snowcapped mountains, majestic rivers, rolling pastures with cows and sheep, and small villages as you roll along.
This is a longer, more complete version of some of my existing shorter train movies.
Ride the ferry from Lake Zürich to Rapperswil
Join our family as we take the ferry boat on Lake Zurich to the adorable old town of Rapperswil, where we do a little activity trail for kids around the castle. A fun spring outing for families in Switzerland.
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Zurich to Rapperswil ferry trip on the MS Limmat
My ferry ride to Rapperswil and some info on the things that caught my attention along the way.
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SWITZERLAND SUMMER 2018
I spent some days in Switzerland with some friends and we visited a few lakes. The weather was perfect so we had a great time.
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Welcome to another cab ride, this time travelling over one of the 2 standard gauge alpine railway crossings in Switzerland, namely the Lötschberg. For those who aren't familiar with Swiss geography, the north is generally hilly with flat parts here and there, whereas the south lies in the middle of the alps, which span from Austria to the east right across to France in the southwest.
The first alpine crossing was achieved through the Gotthardbahn in 1882, which runs from central Switzerland to the southern most tip in Ticino.
In 1906, the BLS (Bern - Lötschberg - Simplon) was founded, who pioneered the alpine crossing over the Lötschberg pass, where we will be travelling today. In 2007, a base tunnel was opened, avoiding the steep ramps of the mountain pass and cutting time off the overall journey, however only one third is double tracked, reducing its capacity.
This has led to most northbound freight trains taking the mountain route, while southbound trains tend to be routed through the tunnel, hence most cab ride videos on youtube showing the mountain route being northbound.
We start our trip in Basel (1:45), where most freight on the north - south axis enters Switzerland (other points include Singen, St Margarethen, Buchs and very rarely Konstanz). From Olten (22:30), we take the new route to Rothrist, followed by the old route to Ostermundigen (1:14:00). From there we head to Frutigen (1:53:30), where the base tunnel starts, and take the mountain route to Brig. Note that Goppenstein is the highest railway station on the Swiss main network. Most of the line between Frutigen and Brig features 27‰ gradients, with speeds limited to 75km/h due to the curves. With heavier trains like ours, the electric regenerative brakes are not sufficient to keep the train from accelerating on the downward slopes (they may be sufficient, however electric braking is regulated in order to keep buffer pressure at safe levels and avoid a derailment). Train drivers therefore need to use the train brakes, reducing the speed for long enough so that the air brakes have at least 60 seconds to recover and reload.
Some of you may be wondering why the train keeps changing tracks on the Lötschberg Pass. We are travelling with a train that is taller than the typcial Swiss structure gauge. Trains like this are referred to as SIM trains (Simplon Intermodal). The Lötschberg pass was adjusted to accommodate these, however, as you could imagine, it involved a lot of work (enlarging tunnels, relocating infrastructure) so not all parts of the pass were adjusted. This is why SIM trains change tracks, to avoid sections of track without enough clearance. Train drivers are informed of these sections with signs and purple signals, which indicate halt for SIM trains. SIM trains also have to be registered on the cab radio during entry, in our case on the viaduct in Frutigen.
I will be working on the light flaring at tunnel ends, hopefully a set EV value should suffice. I also want to apologise for the glare around Thun and Spiez. It was just the time of day mixed with the condition of the windshield. I hope to get a better capture of this stretch sometime in the future - although it won't be easy getting weather like this again!
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