Wednesday, 9 July 2025

The many, many trains of our Switzerland holiday

This summer we visited Switzerland, and I thought I'd take a photograph of all the trains we travelled on...

(The trains in Switzerland are very nice. Much nicer than ours.)

York to King's Cross. Our first train, an LNER Azuma, arriving at York.

Eurostar from London St Pancras to Paris Gare du Lyon. This is once we arrived in Paris.

TGV from Paris Gare du Lyon to Geneva. This is at Paris, where the temperature was a blistering 38C.

I didn't take photos of all the metros we travelled on (we used the metro a lot), but this is the one we took when we visited CERN.

From Geneva to Lausanne, where we spent most of our time.

From Geneva to Neuchatel, at 5:35 am! We had to be in Adelboden by 10 am.

Neuchatel to Bern. (At Neuchatel.)

Bern to Frutigen, in Bern. (After this we caught a bus to Adelboden. I didn't take a photo of the bus.)

Frutigen to Bern. This is as the train arrives at Frutigen, and I have that slightly pained I'm-trying-to-work-the-camera-and-compose-the-photo-and-get-the-timing-right-and-smile expression. I should have let Megan take the photo...

Bern to Neuchatel, at Neuchatel. (I have no idea what model these trains are, by the way.)

Neuchatel to Lausanne, at Neuchatel.


Okay, so this isn't a train either, but it's the ferry we caught when travelling from Lausanne to château de Chillon.)

Veytaux-Chillon to Lausanne. (At Veytaux-Chillon.)

Lausanne to Palézieux, at Lausanne.

Palézieux to Gruyères (yes, the place with the cheese!), at Palézieux.

Cheese!

Gruyères to Palézieux, at Gruyères.

Palézieux to Lausanne, at Palézieux.

Lausanne to Nyon, at Lausanne.

Nyon to Lausanne, at Nyon

Lausanne to Grandvaux, at Lausanne.

Lutry to Lausanne, at Lausanne.

Starting our journey home. Lausanne to Geneva, from Lausanne.

TGV from Geneva to Paris Gare du Lyon. This was more exciting than it needed to be, as it was 1 hr 40 mins late into Paris, leaving us with a stressful dash across Paris to catch the Eurostar. Which we luckily did!

Eurostar from Paris Gare du Nord to London St Pancras. At St Pancras (because there really wasn't time for taking photos at Paris).

And finally, LNER Azuma from London King's Cross to York, at London.

Phew!

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