Switzerland
🇨🇭, Glacier Express

The Glacier Express is a unique train running on the railways of Switzerland. And not just by roads, but by the Rhaetian Railway, parts of which (the Albula and Bernina lines) are a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site!

It is difficult to call it an express train — the train is quite slow, the journey time from St. Moritz to Zermatt (where the famous Matterhorn peak is located) is seven and a half hours. But the slowness of this composition is very becoming — just look at the places through which it passes, and even 7.5 hours will seem like a moment. What is the cost of the Landwasser viaduct alone, which the train enters immediately after exiting the tunnel!

The first train set off along the route back in 1930, the entire line is a narrow-gauge track, mostly using a gear system due to significant slopes. During the journey on the Glacier Express, passengers pass over 291 bridges and pass 91 tunnels. The highest point of the way is 2,033 meters above sea level.