Alps by Train

Along the lakes and up over the passes

Green farmland under snow-capped peaks, lake shores, and villages of wooden chalets with flower boxes at the windows. Every chalet is a small program that rolls its own choices: how many floors, the wood, the roof, the shutters.

Herds lift their heads as you pass, and a storm can roll off the mountains before the train reaches the station.

Stories you might catch

83 small stories are woven through this railway, and every journey picks its own from the season, the weather and the hour. A few of them:

• The Corpus Christi procession
• A helicopter supplies the mountain hut
• The first cows out to spring pasture
• Paragliders off the ridge
• Market day in the village square
• Chamois on the crags
• The Föhn: warm wind, peaks close enough to touch
• Advent lights and the Christmas market

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