High in the Swiss Alps, St Moritz made its name as a place for pushing the boundaries of winter sport. By the time it hosted the second Winter Olympics Games in 1928 its reputation as a playground for ...

The world gets a little smaller on Wednesday with the unveiling of the longest and deepest railway tunnel ever constructed — a feat of engineering under the Alps that will slash journey times across ...

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 ...

Aerial view of modern red train on Landwasser viaduct past alpine mountains and forest at sunset - Tawatchaiprakobkit/Getty Images In 2018, online train booking service Loco2 carried out Europe's ...

Few nations have mastered train travel quite like Switzerland, where tracks run from city to summit. Ride the rails on the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland, an exhilarating route that takes the entire ...

MAINZ, Germany — Two passenger trains collided in Switzerland early Friday, officials said, causing at least five injuries and several cars on one of the trains to derail. The collision between the ...

Trains can be an incredible, one-of-kind way to see a country and gives passengers access to landscapes and sites that they would never see when traveling by car. While all train rides offer something ...

I smile as Silvia – our tour leader on Intrepid’s eight-day Best of Switzerland rail trip – guides us confidently through Zurich’s main station, tickets to Lucerne in hand. Though Italian, Silvia now ...

Over nine days, my daughter and I traveled across Switzerland by train, starting in Geneva and making our way east through storybook mountain towns, sparkling lakes, and more jaw-dropping views than I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel with a focus on safety and sustainability. Dianna and John Mellers had no idea what Swisstainable meant until they ...

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 ...