Your hosts
Jonas and Maren ride this fleet the way they ride them all: window seat, no hurry.
Jonas rides with the notebook. Viaducts get a full page, gradients get a number, and every summit station gets a star — the Oberalp, crossed beside its pass lake, still holds the record at four pages. He plans the journeys the way other people plan dinners: around the seat he most wants to sit in, which on any of these trains is the one wrapped in glass.
Maren rides with the camera, and the camera is always ready before the viaduct is. She shoots film — grain, patience and all — and swears the Landwasser looks better through a lens older than the tunnel. Her rule for the whole journey: if a scene is worth crossing a continent for, it is worth waiting for the light.
The Fleet Table
Every train the showcase holds, honestly tiered — and first, the three Grand Tour scenes that cross this fleet's path. Their scenes play in the Train Journey; here they stand as stills, with the door open.
A Rhine train threading the gorge below the Loreley rock.
Ride it in the Grand Tour ›
Brocken steam in the high Harz forest, climbing for the summit.
Ride it in the Grand Tour ›
A corniche train on the shelf above Monte-Carlo, arriving at Monaco.
Ride it in the Grand Tour ›| Train | Country | Fleet class | In the showcase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glacier Express | Switzerland | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Exterior · panorama car · Excellence Class |
| Bernina Express | Switzerland | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Exterior · interior |
| GoldenPass Express | Switzerland | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior · Prestige interior · panoramic interior |
| GoldenPass Belle Époque | Switzerland | In the Grand Tour, plus a new exterior here | Line exterior · car exterior · interior |
| Centovalli | Switzerland–Italy | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Exterior · interior |
| Gornergrat Railway | Switzerland | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Exterior · interior |
| Gotthard Panorama Express | Switzerland | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior · interior |
| Voralpen Express — Treno Gottardo | Switzerland | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior only |
| Luzern–Interlaken Express | Switzerland | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior · interior |
| Wengernalpbahn | Switzerland | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior only |
| Mont-Blanc Express | France | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior only |
| Transalpin | Austria | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior · interior |
| Mariazellerbahn | Austria | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior only |
| Tatra Electric Railway | Slovakia | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior · interior |
| Bergen Railway | Norway | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Exterior only |
| Flåm Railway | Norway | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Interior · exterior |
| Rauma Railway | Norway | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Interior · exterior |
| Train Jaune | France | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior · open-air interior |
| MiraDouro | Portugal | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior only |
| Tren dels Llacs | Spain | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior only |
| El Transcantábrico Gran Lujo | Spain | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior · interior |
| The Jacobite | United Kingdom | Rides complete in the Grand Tour | Exterior · interior |
| Montserrat Rack Railway | Spain | Class 2 — the scenic lines | Exterior only |
| Welsh Highland Railway | United Kingdom | Class 3 — the heritage wing | Exterior · interior |
| Tren de Sóller | Spain | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior · interior |
| Douro Historical Train | Portugal | Class 1 — the great panoramic trains | Exterior only |
| Xrot d 9213 — steam rotary | Switzerland | The Snow Fleet | Clearing the high pass |
| Xrot mt 95403 — Zaugg blower | Switzerland | The Snow Fleet | Clearing the high pass |
| The Oberalp rotary | Switzerland | The Snow Fleet | Clearing the high pass |
| The Gornergrat’s snow blower | Switzerland | The Snow Fleet | Clearing the high pass |
| R12 — Furka steam rotary | Switzerland | The Snow Fleet | Clearing the high pass |
Photograph credits
The reference photographs behind this showcase's newest trains are real photographs of the real trains, used under licence — our thanks to their photographers. The Grand Tour scenes come from the Train Journey's own collection, and the remaining stills are Jason D's Vision's own artwork.
- ÖBB 1116 with EC 163 on Trisanna Bridge — Kabelleger, CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- SBB IC Panoramawagen Olten innen — Hoff1980, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Mariazellerbahn-ET mit 4 Panoramawagen Nadelbach — Markus Gregory, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- SOB RABe 526 Wassen — Kabelleger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Generalitat de Catalunya Press Room - Foto (21-07-2022) — Government of Catalonia, Attribution — the Generalitat de Catalunya (govern.cat) legal-notice licence · Wikimedia Commons
- Montserrat - 35 — MARIA ROSA FERRE ✿, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Tatranská elektrická železnica (9) — Pavol Svetoň, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Interior of ZSSK Class 425.95 — Midnight Runner, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- MOB GP-Classic Brs201 — Markus Giger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- WHR observation car at Aberglaslyn pass — fairlightworks, CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Interior of the Observation car - Glaslyn (Geograph 6065766) — Richard Hoare, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- RhB Xrotd 9213 am Lago Bianco 4 — Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch ), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- RhB Xm rot 95403 with Gmf 4 4 II no 23402 — Ion Tichy, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- 4 MGB Xrotm Andermatt 021223 — NAC, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- DFB - RhB R 12 Realp - Tiefenbach — Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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End of the ride
The panoramic fleet is one part of the Grand Tour — these same trains ride their full routes in the Great European Train Journey.
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