Switzerland 2006

I realised it's been a month since I went to Switzerland, and I've never posted any of the photos I took on the trip

Here's the very first one I took on the trip, at the station buffet in Kandersteg. I can't imagine anywhere quite like this in Britain. What railway station has a beer garden with a view of a very busy main line surrounded by magnificent scenery?

Just one without any trains in it. This is in the mountains above Kandersteg at the top of the Sunnbuel cable car. If you think the scene is somewhere in the Misty Mountains of Middle Earth, remember that Tolkein used to go on hiking holidays in this part of the world. Did JRRT once stand here?

Back to trains again, this is the famous Baltschieder viaduct, on the south ramp of the Lötchberg main line. The train is the Brig to Goppenstein local, hauled by one of the twelve ex-SBB Re4/4 sold to the BLS. While many of them now wear BLS new silver and green colours, this one's still in the old SBB dark green.

On the north ramp this time, here's one of the hourly Basel-Brig expresses, taken from the footpath that parallels the railway.