Switzerland by Rail ..1990
 

 

In 1990, we made our third visit to Switzerland. This time it was a two resort holiday, with week 1 at Montreux, and week 2 at Lucerne. We flew from Birmingham to Zurich on Sunday 22nd July 1990. We then travelled by rail from Zurich, via Neuchatel and Lausanne, to Montreux.
 

 
RAIL JOURNEYS 22nd JULY 1990 TO 28th JULY 1990:
 
Sun 22/7 11305 Zurich-Montreux (11.40 Romanshorn-Brigg) 
Tues 24/7 11375 Montreux-Vevey (9.07 Brigg-Romanshorn) 
Tues 24/7 11134 Vevey-Montreux (3.00 Lausanne-Sion)
Wed 25/7 303(2) 10.00 Montreux-Rochers de Naye
Wed 25/7 302(2) 16.00 Rochers de Naye-Montreux
Fri 27/7 11261 Montreux-Brigg (8.39 Geneva Apt-Brigg)
Fri 27/7 11647 Brigg-Lotschberg-Bern (12.01 Brigg-St Gallen) 
Fri 27/7 11343 Bern-Geneva (11.43 St Gallen-Geneva Apt)
Fri 27/7 11164 Geneva-Lausanne (16.39 Geneva Apt-Brigg)
Fri 27/7 11317 Lausanne-Montreux (13.42 Romanshorn-Brigg)
Sat 28/7 11177 Montreux-Vevey (9.07 Brigg-Romanshorn)
Sat 28/7 75(1) 14.17 Vevey-Blonay
Sat 28/7 no 6(Steam 0-6-0T) 14.55 Blonay-Chamby-Musee
Sat 28/7 no 6(Steam 0-6-0T) 16.05 Musee-Blonay
Sat 28/7 72(1) 16.26 Blonay-Vevey
Sat 28/7 11270 Vevey-Montreux (15.39 Geneva Apt-Brigg)
 
We also visited the SWISS VAPEUR PARC at Bouveret (right photo below), and the Railway Museum at Chamby.
 
The highlights of the week, rail wise, were 1) The ride on the rack railway up to Rochers de Naye on Wednesday 25th, and the circular tour of Southern Switzerland on Friday 27th, which took in Brigg, the Lotschberg line, Berne, and Geneva.
 

  Above: Car no 72 at Blonay.         Above: Swiss Vapeur Parc
 
 

 
RAIL JOURNEYS 29th JULY 1990 TO 4th AUGUST 1990:
 
Sun 29/7 6003 Montreux-Zweisimmen (Panorama Express)
Sun 29/7 BL3 722(4) 12.05Zweisimmen-Spiez-Interlaken
Sun 29/7 101964 Interl'n-Meiringen (13.35 Interlaken-Luzern)
Sun 29/7 101967 Meiringen-Lucerne (13.35 Interlaken-Luzern)
Fri 3/8 EMU (4) Luzern-Engleberg (11.14 Luzern-Engleberg)
Fri 3/8 EMU(6) Engleberg-Luzern (15.44 Engleberg-Luzern)
Sat 4/8 EMU(2) Vitznau-Rigi Kulm (12.40 Vitznau-Rigi Kulm)
Sun 5/8 11151 Luzern-Zurich (details not recorded)
 
We also visited the SWISS TRANSPORT MUSEUM at Lucerne 
 
Highlight of the week, rail wise, was the journey up the Rack Railway to Rigi Kulm. There was no corresponding journey down, since we decided to walk, and take a boat back to Lucerne. But we seriously misjudged the walking time, and only made the boat by the skin of our teeth.
 

 
And so ended another highly enjoyable Swiss Holiday. 
 

 

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