That is true. However there are other arguments that speak for going the other way. I always find the Gotthard route going South to be like a series of visual discoveries, each one greater than the la

I doubt it. I think many of the stations are away from the villages they serve, so the bus is actually a better option.

They said something similar about Eurotunnel as well, but all the major incidents that occurred have led to both tunnels closing. I hope the Gotthard Base Tunnel is more operationally robust in that r

Nobody can predict all future scenarios. But some arguments that strongly speak against this: Of course my own personal speculation of course. I'm not claiming any greater wisdom here. 1) loss of Goth

As far as I know there are no freight sidings being along the old route that are still served, not even sporadically. One exception is in connection with the construction of the second Gotthard road t

I don't think the objective was ever to shorten the distance, but to make the route usable by freight trains with greater clearances. As a side effect the old tunnel will serve as a service and emerge

that line must have taken more than 100 years to complete :)

I would be interested in such a group. I'm not really a hardcore modeler myself. More a collector of rolling stock. I don't have a proper layout to run anything on, and would preferably like to join a

I was recently musing on how the Swiss railway system was before the Heitersberg tunnel was completed. I guess everything between Zürich and Basel / Bern and further west would have had to come throug

I was on that tour today with two friends. Was anybody else from this group on the train?

When photographing trains, and even more so trams (which is more my main interest in photography) it is virtually impossible not to get people in the picture, and indeed shots with people in them are

Question here about the history of RBe push-pull sets for the purposes of correct formations on a model railway. This isn't very long ago, but memory can play tricks. From memory, when the S-Bahn Züri

I wonder how they define photography for private use. Many railway photographers these days share their photos on playces like Flickr, Facebook or DeviantArt, or have their own private photo sites. Wo

My possibly misinformed understanding Is that on SBB property at Zurich HB you do indeed need an official permit for commercial or professional photography . I am not sure how professional is defined

Also, up until nationalization, British railway companies often competed against rivals as most of the significant main connections were rivaled by that of another company. And one area where they com

I've never come across any mentions of the practice in Switzerland. It worked well in Britain at the time because the main flow of traffic was between London and provincial cities, with traffic betwee

You are right. There was only one Mirage in the Burgwies and the other was kept in one of the regular depots. Wartau is a workshop and there is not sufficient space for storage. I know there was a Mir

As far as I can remember, both Mirages passed into the museum collection at the same time, which was when they were withdrawn from active service. For a long time the Tram Museum were saying they woul

This would suggest the distinction between high level special trains and regular trains is becoming increasingly blurred, and more and more tourist traffic is being displaced from named onto unnamed t

Maybe the criteria that Toma was looking for are more along the lines of 1) trains operating primarily for tourists rather than local traffic 1b) or if local traffic is also covered, separate coaches