The GoldenPass Express connects Interlaken to Montreux in 3 hours and 20 minutes, a journey that requires crossing two different rail gauges — standard gauge at 1,435mm from Interlaken to Zweisimmen, ...

Combining elegance and comfort with 21st century technical excellence, Switzerland’s newest panoramic train journey finally starts on December 11 – three years later than planned and 150 years after ...

It was a cold but brightly sunny day at Zweisimmen train station in the Swiss Alps and we were standing around outside talking variable rail gauges (metre and standard, if you must know), bogies and ...

My grandfather was deputy chief of Iran National Railways. On retirement, he would often recount marvelous stories of his time on the railways: his great train adventures. They were exciting, at times ...