Jeff Wilson searches for excitement in Switzerland aboard the world’s best rail system. Television host Jeff Wilson searches for outdoor excitement in Switzerland aboard the world’s best rail system.

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 ...

WHY IT RATES: The Swiss Travel Pass offers unlimited access to Switzerland's extensive public transport network for 3, 4, 6, 8, or 15 days, including trains, buses and boats. It also covers panoramic ...

Leaf-peepers have plenty to look forward during a fall trip to Europe, perhaps best exemplified by this gorgeous train trip ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Visit the Pradaschier toboggan run in Churwalden at the Arosa Lenzerheide recreation area near the Bernina Express. Open year-round, it's the longest toboggan track in the ...

SBB’s tri-weekly EuroNight from Basel to Copenhagen and Malmö launches 15 April 2026, with tickets on sale 4 Nov 2025 and CHF ...

Switzerland’s great railways — Europe’s greatest, some might say — unzip the landscape to reveal vineyards tumbling down to lakes, meadows chiming with cowbells, waterfalls, rivers, ravines, glaciers ...

Switzerland's new, 22-mile Loetschberg Base Tunnel under the Alps will cut train travel time by about 45 to 75 minutes within Switzerland and between Switzerland and Italy when it opens for passenger ...

During a trip earlier this summer, Travel Pulse contributing editor Claudette Covey interviewed Hugo Furrer, head of Swiss Travel System, SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) in Bern, Switzerland, about the ...

Amtrak fans claim several trains as scenic, most notably the Adirondack, California Zephyr and the Coast Starlight; and the Canadians tout their Canadian routes, at least the part between Edmonton and ...