The Most Beautiful Train Journeys in Europe
The window is the destination
Most travel rushes you to a place. These six railways make the journey the reason you came. Each one trades speed for a procession of viaducts, fjords, glaciers and gorges that unfolds for hours outside the glass. Every line here sits on or around the Interrail and Eurail network, so one pass can string them into a single slow summer. Open each route below for a live map of the line and the details that make it work.
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2Routes
6 scenic lines
Reach
Switzerland to Slovenia
Highest point
2253 m on the Bernina
Pass
All on or around Interrail
"The best views in Europe are not waiting at the end of the line. They are pressed against the window the whole way there.
"On slow travel
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1Bernina Express
A red train over the Landwasser Viaduct and across a 2253 m Alpine pass without a single cog.
Glacier Express
The slowest express in the world, eight unhurried hours of glaciers, gorges and panoramic glass.
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Flam Railway
One of the steepest standard gauge lines anywhere, dropping into a fjord past a thundering falls.
Bergen Line
Oslo to the coast over the bare white roof of Norway, the highest mainline in northern Europe.
Centovalli Railway
A little cross border train through a hundred chestnut valleys, waterfalls and stone villages.
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Bohinj Railway
A forgotten Habsburg line over the largest stone arch rail bridge in the world, above the Soca.
