In Switzerland, the Gornergrat train ascends 4,900 feet from Zermatt to the Gornergrat summit, making it the second-highest railway in Europe after the Jungfraubahnen. Photograph by Artur Debat, Getty ...

The world’s most iconic train journeys deserve to be experienced without the stress of planning. Every detail is handled, ...

Ride the rails, cable-cars and ski routes around Mürren, a remote Swiss village that’s stepping into a new era of ...

In an era where holidays are timed to the minute and selfies replace sightseeing, I wanted something slower - a moment to breathe. I found that in the Swiss Alps, where train carriages move at a ...

Any day you ride the Vigezzina-Centovalli Railway is bound to be life-changing: In the span of only 32 miles, the train crosses 83 bridges and viaducts. Instead of a huge passenger vehicle designed to ...

Avoid Czechia’s crowded ski resorts with a cold-weather escape to Switzerland’s Lower Engadin, where activities and eats are ...

Once a year, the Switzerland’s federal rail operator SBB (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen) reconfigures the country’s Switzerland’s train schedule. And every year, it becomes front page news across the ...

Only in Switzerland can you speed down a slope racing against a train. Skiing Jungfrau’s piste 36 brings me alongside the distinctive red carriages of a Jungfrau Railway train, its locomotive whirring ...