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Originally Posted by dario
So, there is a request for a narrow gauge thread, but nobody starts writing. This summer I made my most enjoyable railway trip on the Jungfrau railways up to the "Top of Europe"! For whose who dont know, visit their website. There were fully booked trains of Japanese tourists, then of Korean tourists, and from the world over. It's really a great network of railways on metre gauge and 800 mm gauge, dc and ac 3-phase electrification, and subway close to the Jungfrau peak! I think it is one of the miths train trips to railfan paradise!
Ok fellows, lets see something else about narrow gauge!
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Hi Dario,a bit late I know but just joined the forum and noticed your post.I've been on the JB twice whilst staying in Interlaken in 1999 and were trips I'll never forget! Yes,there were the hordes of Japanese there too but once outside and looking down the Aletsch Glacier you could forget all that.
Other Schmalspur (practising me Deutsch
) networks I've been on are the GFM from Montbovon to Gruyere,MOB from Montreux to Zweisimmen,Montreux to Rochers-de-Naye,MGB from Capolago to Monte Generoso,Appenzellerbahn from Herisau to Appenzell,RBS from Bern to Solothurn, SBB's only metre gauge line from Interlaken to Luzern - now Zentralbahn I think,ArthRigi bahn from Vitnau and Arth-Goldau to Rigi summit, GGB from Zermatt to Gornergrat and FO from Visp to Zermatt.
I have never been on the Rhatische Bahn but it's one of my ambitions to go over the Bernina Pass from St.Moritz to Tirano and Chur to St.Moritz.
Being lucky with the weather all the journeys were remarkable for the scenery and it would be difficult to select a favourite but the MOB takes some beating
.
I've got some photos somewhere and I'll put 'em on.
I've got a feeling now that the GGB may be standard gauge or maybe I'm thinking about something else.I'm sure somebody will tell me
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