Great Rail Journeys
Great train journeys provide a return to more leisurely days, when travel was a decorous adventure rather than an irritant endured between home and holiday. Between them, this list carve up the most spectacular scenery on the planet.
Switzerland: The Bernina Express
This takes you over the highest rail summit in the Alps – 7,405 feet up – at anything but express speeds between St Moritz and Tirano. The curves on the climbs are so sharp that you can photograph the train going in the opposite direction. The final highlight is the viaduct near Brusio that helps the railway corkscrew its way down the river valley.
Canada: Rocky Mountaineer Vacations
The three train routes – Kicking Horse, Yellowhead and Fraser Discovery – operated by Rocky Mountaineer Vacations’ air-conditioned, dome-car day trains offer the best way of seeing the most spectacular parts of the Rockies.
Coach links over the Columbia Parkway allow a 10-night circuit: Vancouver–Whistler–Quesnel–Jasper...