A Swiss railway corporate claimed the list for the sector’s longest passenger educate Saturday with a travel on some of the impressive tracks in the course of the Alps.
The Rhaetian Railway corporate ran the 1.9-kilometre-long educate composed of 100 coaches alongside the Albula-Bernina course from Preda to Bergün.
The course was once designated a UNESCO World Heritage in 2008 and leads thru 22 tunnels, a few of which spiral thru mountains, and throughout 48 bridges, together with the curved Landwasser Viaduct.
“We have a jubilee of 175 years of Swiss Railways, and this world record attempt should be one big event of this jubilee”, defined Rhaetian Railway’s CEO, Dr Renato Fasciati.
“But actually, the reason was that we had some troubles during corona crisis (COVID-19 pandemic), so we lost 30% of our turnover for guests on the train and so we tried to find a good event in order to increase the awareness of our beautiful UNESCO’s World Heritage route.
“And so this international list strive is a superb reason why and a stupendous device for us to turn the sector this gorgeous railway”, he added.
The entire journey took over an hour. Rail enthusiasts lined the valley to watch the train’s 25 sections wind their way through the Alps.
“The surroundings is just like the Indian summers so you spot those golden timber on this stunning valley, we’ve this railway line with numerous viaducts and this spiral of tunnels… It’s a viaduct with a radius of 100 metres, after which the road is going without delay right into a rock face, right into a tunnel and that is in point of fact incredible” said Fasciati.
“And so we’ve other folks from in all places the sector simply coming and seeing this gorgeous line the use of the glacier or the Bernina Express trains”, he concluded.
Fasciati is hoping when other folks in different international locations see the wonderful thing about the geographical region throughout the educate’s record-breaking strive, they too might be attracted to this area of Switzerland.
