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Transportation
Transportation: include area transportation resources for those traveling to and from, and within the region.
Sample Taxonomy: Airlines, Airports, Car Rentals@, Buses, Highways and Roads (Traffic), Limousines and Shuttles@, Mass Transit, Railroads, Taxis@, Traffic@ <-- links to Transportation/Highways.
Sample Taxonomy: Airlines, Airports, Car Rentals@, Buses, Highways and Roads (Traffic), Limousines and Shuttles@, Mass Transit, Railroads, Taxis@, Traffic@ <-- links to Transportation/Highways.
Sites in Transportation
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB/CFF/FFS)
Extensive site. Timetables, corporate information & links. The timetable includes regional buses. [It doesn't list international coach connections nor urban transports]
Rail-info.ch
Narrow Gauge Guide Switzerland
Swiss Museum of Transports and Communication
The museum in Lucerne presents the collection in aviation, cableways, road and rail transports, telecommunications. Visitor information on the planetarium as well.
Albatros Reisen
Organizes nightliners in charter bus for group tours in Switzerland and all of Europe.
Rhaetian Railway - RhB
Scenic railway and public transportation in the canton of Grisons. Information about the network, experience coaches, and the 19 km Vereina tunnel, the world's longest narrow gauge tunnel.
Albula-Bahn-Club Bergün
Albula line is one of the most interesting of the RhB network. The club built a miniature of the line in Berguen. Includes numerous information and pictures on the Albula line (the real one).
Inforoute
Current road traffic information from TCS: road conditions, road works, alpine passes.
Funiculars of Switzerland
Database of all funiculars in Switzerland. Partially with photos and technical details.
Furka Oberalp Railway
The narrow-gauge FO has been linking Brig in the Upper Wallis Valley with Disentis in Graubünden since 1926. Short introduction, available tours, pictures.
SBB Brünig
The Brünig railway covers the scenic route between Lucerne and Interlaken. Services include GoldenPass Panorama sightseeing trains.
Brienz Rothorn Bahn
Switzerland's oldest cogwheel railway uses steam locomotives to ascend the Rothorn, a mountain that overlooks Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland.
Mt. Rigi-Railways
Two cogwheel railroads and an aerial cableway offer scenic rides to the Rigi Kulm in Central Switzerland.
Lake Lucerne Navigation Company
Steam paddlewheelers and modern diesel boats offer transportation, sightseeing, and dinner cruises on the Lake of the Four Forest Cantons.
Swiss Steam Park
Swiss Vapeur Parc in Le Bouveret, on the shores on the lake of Geneva. The 1,5 km model railway circuit (gauge 5 and 7 1/4 inches) runs through the park, the only two-level miniature railway in Europe. It includes intersecting tunnels, bridges and viaducts.
Pilatus Railways
The steepest cogwheel railway in the world climbs to 2,312 meters or 7,000 feet on Mt. Pilatus, near Lucerne.
AlpTransit Gotthard AG, Luzern
The world's longest railway tunnel will shorten Gotthard Line train schedules by an hour after its completion in 2012.
Glacier-Express
Scenic route from Zermatt to St. Moritz, by Brig, Andermatt, the Oberalp pass, Chur. With photos, timetable, and offers from the three partner railways. |
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