Five lakes, five colours, one mountain that keeps showing up in all of them.
Gornergrat railway
Thirty minutes upward through a landscape that gets more impossible with every meter.
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Guides for Gornergrat railway
Routes and itineraries featuring Gornergrat railway.
Switzerland has over 5,000 kilometres of railway. Most of it is ordinary. These five lines are not. These are not journeys you take to get somewhere faster. They are journeys you take because the train itself is the point. Because the valley below deserves more than a glance. Because some landscapes only make sense when you move through them slowly, from a window, without a plan for what comes next.