The new Golden Pass Express will connect three of the country's most important tourist destinations: Montreux, Gstaad and Interlaken, a special route made possible by trains capable of changing the gauge of their wheels and the height of their coach bodies
Combining elegance and comfort with 21st century technical excellence, Switzerland's newest panoramic train journey finally starts on December 11 -- three years later than planned and 150 years after it was first proposed.
The result is a truly memorable journey for travelers, but one that has always been a challenging task for railway engineers and operators. The change in gauge is facilitated by designing the trucks with two half-frames, which can slide 435 millimeters sideways relative to each other. To do that, they have been equipped with independent wheel pairs without an axle in between the two sides of the bogie.
Costing $93.5 million for just 23 vehicles, they are an expensive solution to a problem dating back 150 years, when a direct service between Montreux and Interlaken was first proposed. Initially, the new GPX trains will run through from Montreux to Interlaken and vice-versa just once a day, leaving Montreux at 9:35 a.m. and Interlaken at 9:08 a.m.
High mountains tower over lush green valleys as the MOB winds through carefully manicured farmland and equally neat Alpine villages. Spiez is a major railway junction where our route crosses the international main line from Basel and Bern to Italy via the Lötschberg and Simplon Tunnels.
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