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The Most Beautiful Train Journey We Have Ever Taken

Sixty minutes from Lauterbrunnen to Kleine Scheidegg.

5 min readSwitzerland

Nobody warns you that a train can be the best thing you do all week.

The Wengernalp railway climbs slowly, deliberately, past meadows so steep the farmers cut them by hand. Every few minutes the Jungfrau appears again in a different frame.

We put the phones down after the first ten minutes. That is the highest compliment we can give a view.