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This is the page where all the videos clips and still pictures that I either couldn't fit on the page where it should be, because it would take too long to load, or where there wasn't enough pictures to make up a page!

Left Video:- Another Rhatisch Bahn train arrives at Chur. There's a link to that railway companies web site on the 'Glacier Express and Chur' page. A very busy place on the train map is Chur. Oddly enough I didn't see any trainspotters in Switzerland. It's very difficult to believe that with all that variety of trains and gauges that nobody has thought of it as a pastime. I also don't believe they don't make excellent anoraks in Switzerland! Or at least import them from somewhere!

Right video: A morning trip to Gstaad and the inevitable railway station saw the arrival of the 10.57 'Golden Pass Panoramic' train from Zweisemmen to Chateau d'Oex, Montbovon and Montreaux. According to a tourist website the trains run daily throughout the year and different destinations have different trains. According to that website the train in the video on the right was a 'Crystal Pass Panoramic' train. Hmmm!! Looks like a 'Golden Pass' train to me. Anyway you can check it out on the 'Golden Pass' train proper website on the link. Its a very good website as well with route maps and timetables and other interesting information. I also understand, and this has nothing to do with trains, that Chateau d'Oex is where the worlds largest hot air balloon festival is held.

Well I did say there was a train round every corner in Switzerland. The one in the video on the left is one I caught when the Chris the driver / tour courier invited me to sit in the courier's seat at the front of the bus. Which, by the way, was rather small, narrow and not very comfortable. I have no idea whatsoever where we were, or what train it was. All I know is that it was on the way back from Grindelwald to Interlaken at round about 4.30 p.m. Note the cars passing our coach - we obviously weren't speeding. Also the flashing light at the level crossing. I didn't realise, until I was at the Strathspey Railway, that there are white lights at our level crossings to warn the drivers. But that is a page yet to be completed

Above:- This picture was taken at Kork in Germany. It is a Siemens built engine owned by Dipsolok, which is also a Siemens subsidiary company. The series ES64 U2 is an two-system electric locomotive for heavy-duty goods transportation and fast passenger transport.
The company is an engine leasing organisation which operate across Europe. So if you feel an overwhelming need to buy or rent a similar locomotive follow the Dipsolok link. It is in English! Above:- Did a lot of looking for a 'tvr' train company is Switzerland but never found one. Then I zoomed in on the original picture and noticed the Ratische Bahn logo on the side of the engine. This must be a more recent engine in a new livery. Anyway it was taken at Davos on one of the few days it rained during the holiday. For more information on trains in Switzerland visit the Swiss Travel System Pages.

Back at Chur for this picture of a double decker train. Please note that this end view is not the power car, as there's no pantograph on it. It's the other end of the 'push and pull' train. Funny, but in the 1960's the push and pull trains on the Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers branch line didn't look much like that! Above:- Andermatt station on a bright sunny, and busy afternoon.

Above:- This looks a bit more like what we are used to seeing! A diesel shunting engine at Andermatt Above:- The railways of Switzerland are obviously used for reasons other than passenger travel! This diesel shunter is used for shifting the logging trucks

On the left is a shunter at Tiefencastel. Although it's a bit difficult to tell if it is conected permenantly to the ballast truck behind it and therefore used for track repairs. As for the picture on the right the nearest thing I have seen to that in the UK is a guardsvan! But it obviously isn't as it is a powered car. Does anyone out there know what it is used for?

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	Left Video:- Another Rhatisch Bahn train arrives at Chur. There's a link to that railway companies web site on the 'Glacier Express and Chur' page. A very busy place on the train map is Chur. Oddly enough I didn't see any trainspotters in Switzerland. It's very difficult to believe that with all that variety of trains and gauges that nobody has thought of it as a pastime. I also don't believe they don't make excellent anoraks in Switzerland! Or at least import them from somewhere!
Right video: A morning trip to Gstaad and the inevitable railway station saw the arrival of the 10.57 'Golden Pass Panoramic' train from Zweisemmen to Chateau d'Oex, Montbovon and Montreaux. According to a tourist website the trains run daily throughout the year and different destinations have different trains. According to that website the train in the video on the right was a 'Crystal Pass Panoramic' train. Hmmm!! Looks like a 'Golden Pass' train to me. Anyway you can check it out on the 'Golden Pass' train proper website on the link. Its a very good website as well with route maps and timetables and other interesting information. I also understand, and this has nothing to do with trains, that Chateau d'Oex is where the worlds largest hot air balloon festival is held.
	Well I did say there was a train round every corner in Switzerland. The one in the video on the left is one I caught when the Chris the driver / tour courier invited me to sit in the courier's seat at the front of the bus. Which, by the way, was rather small, narrow and not very comfortable. I have no idea whatsoever where we were, or what train it was. All I know is that it was on the way back from Grindelwald to Interlaken at round about 4.30 p.m. Note the cars passing our coach - we obviously weren't speeding. Also the flashing light at the level crossing. I didn't realise, until I was at the Strathspey Railway, that there are white lights at our level crossings to warn the drivers. But that is a page yet to be completed

Above:- This picture was taken at Kork in Germany. It is a Siemens built engine owned by Dipsolok, which is also a Siemens subsidiary company. The series ES64 U2 is an two-system electric locomotive for heavy-duty goods transportation and fast passenger transport. The company is an engine leasing organisation which operate across Europe. So if you feel an overwhelming need to buy or rent a similar locomotive follow the Dipsolok link. It is in English!	Above:- Did a lot of looking for a 'tvr' train company is Switzerland but never found one. Then I zoomed in on the original picture and noticed the Ratische Bahn logo on the side of the engine. This must be a more recent engine in a new livery. Anyway it was taken at Davos on one of the few days it rained during the holiday. For more information on trains in Switzerland visit the Swiss Travel System Pages.

Back at Chur for this picture of a double decker train. Please note that this end view is not the power car, as there's no pantograph on it. It's the other end of the 'push and pull' train. Funny, but in the 1960's the push and pull trains on the Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers branch line didn't look much like that!	Above:- Andermatt station on a bright sunny, and busy afternoon.

Above:- This looks a bit more like what we are used to seeing! A diesel shunting engine at Andermatt	Above:- The railways of Switzerland are obviously used for reasons other than passenger travel! This diesel shunter is used for shifting the logging trucks

On the left is a shunter at Tiefencastel. Although it's a bit difficult to tell if it is conected permenantly to the ballast truck behind it and therefore used for track repairs. As for the picture on the right the nearest thing I have seen to that in the UK is a guardsvan! But it obviously isn't as it is a powered car. Does anyone out there know what it is used for?
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Miscellaneous Return to Switzerland Index Page Return to Home Page This is the page where all the videos clips and still pictures that I either couldn't fit on the page where it should be, because it would take too long to load, or where there wasn't enough pictures to make up a page!

Miscellaneous Return to Switzerland Index Page Return to Home Page

This is the page where all the videos clips and still pictures that I either couldn't fit on the page where it should be, because it would take too long to load, or where there wasn't enough pictures to make up a page!