A red train on Landwasser viaduct among alpine mountains and colorful forest at sunset - Denis Belitsky/Shutterstock When it comes to cultural icons, the tiny, landlocked country of Switzerland ...

Travel author Everett Potter offers his recommendations for the most charming train rides in the country, with alpine views you won’t find anywhere else. In Switzerland, the Gornergrat train ascends 4 ...

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 ...

One of the most scenic countries in the world is Switzerland. The mountains, the alpine lakes, the quaint villages, the scenic trains, all add up to quite the visual travel experience that will have ...

Few nations have mastered train travel quite like Switzerland, where tracks run from city to summit. Ride the rails on the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland, an exhilarating route that takes the entire ...

When I discovered that seats on Switzerland’s panoramic Bernina Express trains were sold out for my May travel dates, I panicked. Then I began researching other luxury trains like the GoldenPass ...

EVERY SEASON in Switzerland is a good season, but this three-day itinerary, focusing on dynamic cities and the rail routes between them, is optimal for long spring and summer days. You can align with ...

Some countries are easier to explore when the train does the heavy lifting. A rental car can sound flexible until travelers start dealing with city traffic, parking rules, tolls, fuel costs, mountain ...

The GoldenPass Express connects Interlaken and Montreux in Switzerland and does something almost no other train in the world does — it changes its own wheel gauge mid-journey to transition between two ...