This made me cry. I made this trip in 1999 with my late sister. Next year I am making the trip again in her memory and obviously will do the trip again in the new train. To see the train going through Gstaad which she loved and into Interlaken where we based ourselves for a week while travelling around Switzerland just made my day. Thanks

Mob is a great name for a company you trust your life and safety to!

As a swiss person I don't need the Prestige class. It looks nice, but I respect these for tourists, who visited Switzerland for the first time.

Really excellent work overall. The beautiful journey, the careful diction, the quality of footage, and last but not least, the appropriate pronunciation and correct spelling in closed caption, all make me a subscriber! I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Thanks!🎉🎉🎉

The view of the Swiss Alps appears to be from a different world altogether --- mesmerizingly beautiful. Moreover, the train built by Stadler AG is indeed superb.

Switzerland has some wonderful scenery on it's railways. Well worth paying extra for the luxury on board.

I rode the Golden Pass recently - twice! - once to Zweisimmen and then a second time only to Montbovon where I changed to the train for Gruyeres, a much more scenic option than the 'normal' route via Palézieux and only 10 minutes longer. I think you missed a trick however by not getting, or featuring, a train using the Belle Époque carriages. A step back in time to the, pardon the pun, Golden Age of train travel (if today isn't classified as a new golden age as well), the carriages are absolutely stunning and while not matching the new trainsets in comfort make up for it in spades with character. The Prestige class on the new trains is totally overpriced, especially considering you can't even [currently] ride them all the way to Interlaken. The Belle Époque carriages also have the distinction that second class is utterly indistinguishable from first class. I had to check that I hadn't wandered into the wrong section by mistake because I could not tell the difference. Maybe there is a different meal service or something, I don't know, but the interior was exactly the same. Save loads by buying a second class on the Belle Époque and riding in the equivalent of first! The trains are also back to running on a hourly schedule. Purchasing e a point-to-point ticket, such as one might if using the half-fare pass, allows the freedom to hop off the train at any station and then grab another one when it comes through. I would contend that the Rochers-de-Naye railway, also leaving/arrving Montreux, is more spectacular than the Golden Pass. Being a cog railway it reaches high altitudes very quickly: 45 minutes after leaving Montreux you are at 2000 metres with stunning views over the Bernese Alps to the Eiger and Jungfrau. A must-do if in the area.

Switzerland was my first foreign holiday with my parents and brothers, and remains my favourite country. I didn't understand your spoiler (without alert!) that we wouldn't make it to Interlaken Ost, as we obviously did!

Loved your trip thru Switzerland. Love riding the rails and see all the wonderful trains. Thanks.

Very nice video. Montreux is my home for almost 30 years but I've never taken the MOB. I always see it in the morning when I commute to work but I always go towards Lausanne via CFF. One day I'll try it 😎

You have to try out the Lucerne Interlaken Express. I found it one of the most underrated cogwheel railways.

You did a great job of showcasing Prestige Class. Excellent video.

I love Montreux and the MOB. Went on it so many times as a kid.

beautiful journey! Seems the alps have a bit of a problem deciding if it was summer or winter, it looked so surreal at times!

😮OMG what a spectacularly beautiful country. Perfect for journey by train. Thank you for this video... excellent presenting. 🇦🇺

Excellent video. Better weather than I had in 2016. You were very lucky.

Looks you went to fairyland . Great rail journey in a wonderful train . Sorry to hear that you had to change trains due to the perceived damage to the tracks but I suppose it's better to take precautions in such a delicate environment. The interiors are spanking new and well appointed. Thanks for a lovely ride .

Beautiful scenery! Love the trains!

The seats are made by BorCAD in the Czech Republic and are the same ones as on the Rocky Mountaineer.

I found the scenic views absolutely amazing maybe one day I will be able to take that train or would certainly make sure that I would take my cameras with me

Thank you for this great video. The Prestige Class seating is truly superb. What a shame that the BLS are finding fault with the MOB gauge changing bogies, and one can but hope the issues will quickly be resolved.

I enjoyed your tour program very much. I love Europe, especially Switzerland. Your program reminded me of the cities that my family and I visited, such as Mont Buffon and Chateau des. Thank you for your enjoyable tourism program and your excellent presentation, and I will always be one of your followers. Goodbye. My name is Habib Ibrahim from the State of Kuwait.

A beautiful video. Thank you!

I can also recommend the RhB from Chur to Arosa. A amazing train with the train driving through Chur like a tram and the climbing all the way up to Arosa.

Very fine report! (Note: the cars are from Stadler, but the bogies from Alstom). I was fascinated to watch the bogies being slowly widened or narrowed in Zweisimmen - a matter of 2 minutes. The whole technology is very new, and not all the trains have been delivered yet. The BLS not only fears damage to its switches - such damage has already occurred. Hence the resort to changing trains at Zweisimmen. In addition to the new "gpx", MOB runs most long-distance connections between Montreux and Zweisimmen with various special trains: Panoramic, Belle Epoque (in the Art Nouveau retro look) - and this without any surcharge! These trains are marked in the timetable.

A review of the spectacular BLS line (Bern -) Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds would be cool for several reasons: The great views, the MIKA trains also run on that line, the unique stop with direction change at Chambrelien, the line will get replaced with a more direct line mostly through tunnels (unsurprisingly called "Ligne direct"). Possibly the journey can be connected with the Le Locle-Les Brenets line that will be replaced by a guided bus or the CJ line to Glovelier (with the perfect timetable synchronisation at Le Noirmont thanks to a long stop of the branch to Glovelier at Saignelégier).

Simply......wow. On my Bucket List now. Thank you.

This is so amazing! Warm welcomes from Bern

Many years ago My partner and I did the Interlaken to Montreux line and it was a great experience especially coming down into Montreux. We did a circuit Interlaken to Montreux Montreux to Fribourg Fribourg to Bern Bern to Interlaken It was an enjoyable day out and in Fribourg I bought a copy of Émile, ou De l’éducation by the Swiss author Jean-Jacques Rousseau as one of my students was writing her dissertation on this work and Fribourg is a bilingual city.

I currently live 1 hour 45 mins from Geneva so make frequent forays into Switzerland. I love Swiss trains and just find Switzerland fascinating with all its languages and, obviously, beautiful scenery. I've yet to travel on a metre-gauge train but I have 'spotted' them at Chur and Brig. Maybe next trip, you've whet my appetite!

That morocco train journey loos like a really nice package. Around 5k for 15 days of the most amazing Moroccan destinations mostly by train.

Absolutely beautiful route and train - we want one of those trains from Manchester to Holyhead 😂❤️

Great video Superalbs! I stayed in Geneva in March if I had more time I would have loved to explore more of CH

What a train ride a wow on the train

I have to say that these carriages do look so nice and the scenery is so spectacular. As Switzerland is a beautiful country in Europe 🤩😍

Nice viewing. I really love old good livery. And it's just like British that you chose tea without hesitation. (Seeing relationship with 南海電車)なんだこれは・・・たまげたなあ。

The lake at Geneva is called Lac Léman. Great video alltogether!

Great trip. Hope in the future this train can do full trip route.

Yes, you should cover the IC 2020

Your this video and this efforts are very informative program. Thank you for given this very beautiful and very interested presentation ❤️👍

Stunning!

Superb!

Lovely. I would love to go on this trip. Greetings from Canada.

Very nice ....thank you ❤

It looks divine.

Amazing trip.

Absolutely gorgeous

Nice train trip.

Great vid! 2nd class doesn't seem too shabby, either.. Ever discover why your fancy EMU was loco hauled...?

Continue to be impressed by your pronunciation. I really need to work on mine, probably best that I stick to the UK for now 🙈😂.

2nd, love your videos!

So from what I've read starting on June 11 it seemed BLS finally allowed the GPX train to use their route thus eliminating the need for the transfer

Try polish regional trains, Polregio. Some of polregio units were buildet in 1970.

Great video! Important to mention: The Golden Pass Express nowadays runs with an MOB locomotive on the 1 meter rail network from Monteux to Zweisimmen. There, the bogies of the passenger coaches change to the normal gauge (1435mm). This procedure takes only a few seconds. After that, the journey continues with a standard gauge BLS locomotive.

Great train.

Absolutely second to none.

9:29 That's Europlug socket and Schuko socket, thank you very much!

lol when you told the price of the breakfast i first wondered how cheap the ticket pricing is :D

Very nice

Oh, you should try the coffee-voiture in the Mika trains. I use it daily for commuting and find it pretty relaxing.

Thank you. Fun, indeed, and Swiss state-of-the-art, as ever. But what about the dining? Thank you.

Muito lindo trem boa viagem ai boa tarde ótimo video clássi

Comparing it to the normal service trains, it has very little EXTRA for the money. Any train in Switzerland is clean, punctual and well run. The views from ANY train is spectacular - so why go for the snob value? It costs dear!!

Amazing views and amazing prices 😂

i like it

You’ve now done 1 of the three big panoramic trains of Switzerland. Where are the Glacier Express and Bernini Express? Great job though, just missing the lead carriages they used to have where you sat in front of the driver for that service.

MOB stands for “Montreux Oberland Bahn”.

Gotta say the price was pretty decent. It’s about the price of a first class seat between Stockholm and Gothenburg (though a meal is included in that price).

Just imagine getting PAID to drive those trains

Hi great video btw. May I ask which side of the train should I sit for a better view, if I’m travelling from Montreux to Interlaken? TIA. 😊

Great video! What's that song around @7:40?

Was thinking about a summer trip, after ridicules high price for flight - just 1.5h prices starts from £150 one way in EasyJet O_o, to staying one night in Montreux £200, train from Geneva £58… and then I stop checking XD But lovely video 2 watch :]

Albs, I've travelled on the Golden Pass a decade ago in literally golden color carriages from Lucerne to Montreux. Is the GP express different? I found the route not exactly the same. Also one annoying thing about the panoramic windows is that it gets very hot during summer. I had to wear a hat to prevent myself getting sun burnt!

I see you are on the shores of lake geneva, but I dont see any smoke on the water🤔

Thank you for always delivering wonderful videos. I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I have one favour to ask. It will be a reference when using the toilet, so please take a picture of the scene where the toilet water flows (the flushed water is sucked into the underfloor tank) when visiting the toilet. Please.

Yes ❤

You forgot to mention the third railway in the Montreux Station- to the Rocher de Naye on 80 cm gauge…it’s a cog railway. Château d’Oex is the home of the Piccard -Family August- Jacques & Bertrand. A worldwide balloon meeting is held once a year. Plans exist for the new trains to complete the journey In Luzern, when the technical issues are solved…

I fell in love with Switzerland when I visited a few weeks ago but it drained my wallet. I would love to know how to live there and prosper financially. Beautiful country and beautiful trains.

You are going to a lot of troubles calling the Leman, lake Geneva

The GPX was refused by the end of febuary by BLS beacause they noticed abnormal wear and tear on the tracks, mainly on the switches. Investigations are still in progress. During test runs no abnormal wheel spacing could be detected. On the MOB tracks the train is still running, but they noticed the problem too. I heard that the train is currently allowed to drive only 20 kph over switches. Currently they're talking about a renewed introduction in October, but from my experience and reviewing the progress they've made... i guess next timetable change seems more realistic. However, this is not the first time that BLS has been unsure about this train. Shortly after the train was introduced, it was only allowed to run at max. 80 kph because they had uncertainties with the brake type.

update 1: As from June 10 (2023), the gpx runs again directly from Montreux to Interlaken. update 2: from the same date, 3 additional gpx will run - but till July only Montreux-Zweisimmen, where one has to change trains.

> Montreux > Lake Geneva shoreline me: SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE ON THE WAAAATER

The real reason for the delay in running through onto BLS was the problem with the sliding bogie technology (ala Spanish Talgo style). Also, I was disappointed to note that the Prestige seats do not exactly line up with the windows, so your seat only had about 2/3rd's of a window to see out of.

£113 actually feels cheap considering standard class to aberdeen single have been £219. I think ine day I would adore to take that train.

15:30 yes I would love to see the film from the ordinary train.

Our guests from Luxury Travel Switzerland visit Montreux and Interlaken on their 10-day luxury tour through whole Switzerland. GoldenPass Express train is unique and luxury. The guests love it very much… ❤

Great Video 😎 Pretty sad, that they have the technology now, to switch the gages, make it a direkt line and all those new locomotives and carriages that would support that, but they can't use any of it because of BLS... 😕 (Would've been nice to include that in the video too 😉)

Hi, great video with amazing detail and quality. I am currently working on a video for my channel and would like to ask you for permission to use some of your footage to illustrate parts of it. Of course, with the corresponding credit and link to the source. Many thanks for sharing this journey with us.

Montreau was a home to Freddy Mercury Queen’s singer. There is a statue in his honor there.

I can't believe how some passengers prefer to text on their phones rather than enjoying the views, for which they had paid to see!

We need scotrail HST first class review

Thanks for the video. Very helpful. I have reserved my seats on Prestige Class as well but wanted to know if Swiss Pass is applicable for the actual tickets of prestige class?

Can you tell which is best, most interesting, way to go by train from Paris to Munich or Innsbruck?

Can you ride the european sleeper (berlin to brussel south or brussel south to berlin)?

BLS is not refusing to allow the GPEx to use their track "out of fear it causes damage to the track", BLS banned the use of the train after 2 months of use, during which time the train was causing damage to track. MOB spent CHF 63m on a gauge-changing train which it can now only use on its own track.

I'm surprised this train still hasn't gotten regulatory approval for dual-gauge through running. It was literally built to change gauge from 1,000mm to 1,435mm but as you said, BLS and other entities refuse to allow its service.

I might have missed it. How long is the train journey please? Which other Countries are available Panoramic trains are available when you arrive? Thank you for the invaluable info.

Hi ! From which website we can buy golden pass train tickets? Also can travellers get down in any station and do hop n hop ?

ofc it was awesome but will be better if u be able to watch toward but not only by sides . or will be amazing if locomotive will be behind the all vagons and this prestige vagon first

Is that a semi shared bogier?