Skip the airports. These panoramic train journeys are destinations in themselves — and the Swiss lines top our list.
There's a slower, more beautiful way to see Europe — through the panoramic window of a scenic train, coffee in hand, mountains sliding by.
The Glacier Express links Zermatt and St. Moritz across 291 bridges and 91 tunnels in around eight unhurried hours. It's not fast — it's not meant to be.
The Bernina Express climbs from Italian palms to alpine glaciers on a UNESCO World Heritage line, one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world.
Add the Bergen Line in Norway, the West Highland Line in Scotland, and the Centovalli between Switzerland and Italy, and you have a rail bucket list to last a lifetime.
Written by
Nikhil Verma
Europe Specialist · RoamEra Tribe
