An updated and revised edition of this illustrated account of the world famous Glacier Express. The book contains a selection of the highest quality colour images and tells of the past and present of the world’s slowest express train.
Glacier Express: Eine Eisenbahn-Traumreise durch die alpine Schweiz is presented as a journey along the route. It is divided into three main sections covering Zermatt to Brig, Brig to Disentis and Disentis to St Moritz. The photographs show the viaducts, bridges and tunnels, in the spectacular alpine gorges and plateaus that have made the Glacier Express one of the world’s favourite train journeys.
Maps of the route are also included and further chapters look at the UNESCO world heritage status of the Berninabahn, and the locomotives and rolling stock used on Glacier Express services. Hardback. 136 pages. German text.