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Join us for a captivating journey along the magnificent SBB Gotthard Line, one of the world's premier rail routes, running north-south through the centre of Switzerland. In Gotthard North we take the ex-TEE "Gottardo" for the ride from Zürich to the Gotthard Pass.
We join our train at Zürich Main Station and are soon running alongside Lakes Zürich, Zug and Lucerne. We break our journey to look around the old town ot Zug, visit the fascinating animal park at Arth-Goldau, and the Victorinox factory in Schwyz where the famous Swiss Army Knives are made.
We look at the history of the line and its locomotives and visit the SBB depot at Erstfeld, not only home to the most modern of the Swiss Federal Railway's fleet, but also to two of the surviving "crocodile" locomotives from the early days of electrification.
After Erstfeld the line begins to climb steeply, twisting and turning around the village of Wassen, whose church is a famous vantage point for railway enthusiasts.
We end our journey at Göschenen, where we leave the train to look at the Gotthard Pass road and follow the old horse-drawn post-coach to the summit hospice.
(recorded in 1994)