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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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46.8499,9.5329,Bernina Express
46.0207,7.7491,Glacier Express
60.8632,7.1135,Flam Railway
60.3894,5.33,Bergen Line
46.1712,8.799,Centovalli Railway
46.1547,13.743,Bohinj Railway

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The best views in Europe are not waiting at the end of the line. They are pressed against the window the whole way there.


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Bernina Express
A red train over the Landwasser Viaduct and across a 2253 m Alpine pass without a single cog.


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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.


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Bergen Line
Oslo to the coast over the bare white roof of Norway, the highest mainline in northern Europe.


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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.


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Which would you ride first?
Bernina Express
Glacier Express
Flam Railway
Bergen Line
Centovalli Railway
Bohinj Railway

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