{"id":1121,"date":"2026-09-19T19:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:59:14","slug":"bernina-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/bernina-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernina Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We took the Bernina Railway today, ending up in Schaffhausen, close to the German border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The railway went though stunning scenery.  We stopped of en route at Pontrenesa, and had a look round the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An advert on the train for the railway museum also led us astray for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The train runs along the road in Tirano… We were overtaken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The highest point on the route <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bernina trip part 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Landquart was nice enough. We walked back to the previous station south before continuing northwards on the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Art in the gorge.  The boat is suspended above the water.  My first thought was that it had got stuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Landquart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adverts for the world’s longest passenger train (100 carriages)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You can see the ascent and descent very clearly as the railway snakes up and down the mountani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We stopped at the RHB railway museum<\/a>.  This was pretty good; a lot of random things in the basement, and more structured exhibits on the history of the railway upstairs. There was also a model railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We changed for a normal train at Chur, and then headed to Slaffhausen for the night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trains were all on time to within a minute or so, so that Swiss stereotype was true. The one about it being expensive is also true. We’re staying at a not great place that, cost about the same as our room in Tirano but is about 1\/3 the size of our room in there and doesn’t come with breakfast either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We made the most of my interrail day, and F’s swiss railways day pass by heading to Rheinfall after dinner.  As it was late, they’d stopped  charging for entry \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schloss Laufen am Rheinfall station is right below the castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One of the viewpoints goes right over the fall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The waterflow is very low at the moment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A couple were getting married in the castle and having their photos taken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took the Bernina Railway today, ending up in Schaffhausen, close to the German border. The railway went though stunning scenery.  We stopped of en route at Pontrenesa, and had a look round the village. An advert on the train for the railway museum also led us astray for a couple of hours. Landquart was READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe2026"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}