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Glacier
Express Train, St Moritz to
Zermatt
Connecting St Moritz and Zermatt, this may be the world's most spectacular train ride. |
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For a whole day's worth of breathtaking alpine scenery, nothing beats the Glacier Express, the excursion train that travels for 7-1/2 hours from Zermatt in southwestern Switzerland to St Moritz in the southeast (and vice-versa). The Glacier Express makes one run in each direction daily in winter, twice daily in summer (when longer hours of daylight make it worthwhile to have a second train). The train's route is an engineering marvel, with 91 viaducts, 291 bridges, and a 13-km (8-mile)-long tunnel drilled right through Furka Mountain. The Glacier Express hauls sightseeing coaches and restaurant cars. Reservations are required. |
 The Glacier Express on its run into the ice...
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