Travel snapshot – impressive train ride

“The clever one travels by train” – clearly my motto. I don’t like driving a car, cycling is too strenuous in the long run, the balloon is too slow and the helicopter exceeds my financial conditions. Well, that’s why I stay loyal to the train. When I travelled to the Nira Alpina in the Engadine two weeks ago, I was particularly looking forward to the journey. This led me over a part of the Unesco World Heritage railway line of the Rhaetian Railway.

The World Heritage Site consists of two sections – the Albula Line from Thusis to St. Moritz, which was completed in 1903, and the Bernina Line from St. Moritz to Tirano in Italy, which was put into operation 7 years later.

After the train has passed Thusis, you are welcomed by a nice train voice on the Albula line and so that you don’t miss a highlight, an information sequence is played shortly before each railway technical highlight. Among the most impressive buildings of the Albulaline are the famous Landwasser Viaduct and the spiral tunnels just before the Albula Tunnel.

An entertaining ride that offers both a great (and relaxed) landscape experience and impressive engineering structures. To prefer the car to the train on this route would, in my opinion, be an unforgivable mistake.

At some point I would like to ride the second part from St. Moritz to Tirano, because this section of the route is supposed to be even more beautiful…

What has been your best train ride so far?