GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Hangzhou, China, which bills itself as the most romantic city in the country, this week named a 26-year-old Swiss man as its ambassador to the world, to get the message out. The city of some six million is home to the beautiful West Lake, a Unesco World Heritage sites. The job is […]
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France trims the edges of rail platforms
PARIS, FRANCE – Three hundred French train stations have seen their platforms trimmed to make room for new, fatter trains – and another 1,000 will get the same treatment by the end of 2016, two French rail bodies said 21 May. France’s train tracks and platforms are of varying sizes, many of them dating back […]
Geneva gets a train station to love
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you haven’t visited the Cornavin train station in Geneva recently you are in for a big surprise. Most of the renovation – better put, overhaul – of the station has now been completed. Wednesday 14 May the CFF/SBB inaugurated the station’s new Business Point centre and first class lounge, just days […]
St Gotthard trains to carry 40% more passengers
Swiss firm Stadler gets CHF 1 billion order Ed. note: train photos to follow BERN, SWITZERLAND – The SBB/CFF rail company has ordered 29 new trains for the St Gotthard line, which currently has 9,000 passengers a day, with 15,000 expected by 2020 and more than 18,000 by 2025. Swiss firm Stadler was given the […]
Love a mountain hut? Tell Google
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Google Street View and the Club Alpin Suisse (CAS) are working together to film the routes up to a number of Swiss Alpine huts. If you have a favourite, you have until the end of May to tell them: the hut voted the most popular will be the first one filmed and […]