To give credit where it is due... Swiss railways is synonymous with perfection. The days spent in Switzerland began with their website , we marked our journey plan and it gave us the options of trains available including the changes required if any, the platform number onto which one train would arrive and also the platform number from which the connecting train would leave a particular station. The time that was put on this website for each train and even for the inter city buses did not vary by even a second. With that plan in hand and a back pack we started our day and even ended it. "We don't wait for any body even if you are Barrack Obama..we will leave as per schedule..We keep the Swiss time" The pride was palpable as the guard spoke these lines to me.
The one flat ticket namely the Swiss pass, which is given out for tourists and can be bought at any of the railway counters or even the airport from where we bought ours is the ticket for any surface transport throughout this country.. be it rail, tram, road, or boats.
The trains that travel through the cities, the villages, the bridges, the snow and up the incline of mountains..the steepest cogwheel train that took us to Mount Pilatus is at an incline of 46degrees. Certainly for a person like me, for whom maintaining time is meditational.. Swiss Rails were Demi God.
A few pictures...
Zurich Haufbahnhoff or Zurich Rail Station
The Glacier Express on a Bridge
The World's steepest cogwheel to Mount Pilatus
Carrying us through the snow to Mount Jungfrau Hoch
Drizzling..but anything for a snap!!
With friends! Less people, cleaner trains..
All pictures courtesy Husband..who is always the official camera man! This is part of a short series on picture perfect postcards from the Alps!!The one flat ticket namely the Swiss pass, which is given out for tourists and can be bought at any of the railway counters or even the airport from where we bought ours is the ticket for any surface transport throughout this country.. be it rail, tram, road, or boats.
The trains that travel through the cities, the villages, the bridges, the snow and up the incline of mountains..the steepest cogwheel train that took us to Mount Pilatus is at an incline of 46degrees. Certainly for a person like me, for whom maintaining time is meditational.. Swiss Rails were Demi God.
A few pictures...
Zurich Haufbahnhoff or Zurich Rail Station
The Glacier Express on a Bridge
The World's steepest cogwheel to Mount Pilatus
Carrying us through the snow to Mount Jungfrau Hoch
Drizzling..but anything for a snap!!
With friends! Less people, cleaner trains..
