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This project started due mainly to my interest in cartography, railways, trams, walking, photography and holidays in Switzerland over the last few years. I wanted a map that clearly showed all railways, all stations, lake ports, cablecars, gondolas, chairlifts and funiculars. Using the excellent mapping application from www.mapdiva.com.ortelius for the Mac I commenced in late December 2014 and completed the first stage in early February 2015.
Switzerland was a place we tended to go through and not stay but that ended in 2010 when I first went to the Ticino region (Lugano) with regional travel pass in hand. I stayed in Ponte Tresa (at a hotel 10 meters inside Italy), on the end of a branch line from Lugano, and that's where my love for mountains was rekindled.
After 2010, in 2011 I went to Luzern with another regional pass and spent the week in a converted prison – some fantastic destinations nearby: Engelberg, Titlis, Pilatus, Rigi; 2012 to Austria (Innsbruck); 2013 to Chur: UNESCO heritage railways, fantastic walks under the curved railway viaducts; 2014 to Interlaken: Jungfraujoch (top of Europe), the beautiful Aare Gorge, Reichenbach Falls, Ernst Stavro Bloefeld's pad at Schilthorn, Schynige Platte, Thun and Bern.
2016 to Zermatt for the Matterhorn, 2017 Bad Ischl (Austria), 2018 Vevey on Lake Geneva, 2019 St Gallen.
It is not intended to be 100% geographically accurate but near enough to be useful I hope. I show all rail routes, including preserved lines, rail museums also cable cars, gondolas etc that are shown in the Swiss national rail timetable http://www.sbb.ch/en/timetable. Details outside the national border are not covered at all.
I found the website http://map.schweizmobil.ch to be very helpful with station locations (© Swisstopo).
As soon as any error is spotted, the map will be updated along with the version number.
You may need to clear your ”cache’ to see updates to this and other Weebly websites
Switzerland was a place we tended to go through and not stay but that ended in 2010 when I first went to the Ticino region (Lugano) with regional travel pass in hand. I stayed in Ponte Tresa (at a hotel 10 meters inside Italy), on the end of a branch line from Lugano, and that's where my love for mountains was rekindled.
After 2010, in 2011 I went to Luzern with another regional pass and spent the week in a converted prison – some fantastic destinations nearby: Engelberg, Titlis, Pilatus, Rigi; 2012 to Austria (Innsbruck); 2013 to Chur: UNESCO heritage railways, fantastic walks under the curved railway viaducts; 2014 to Interlaken: Jungfraujoch (top of Europe), the beautiful Aare Gorge, Reichenbach Falls, Ernst Stavro Bloefeld's pad at Schilthorn, Schynige Platte, Thun and Bern.
2016 to Zermatt for the Matterhorn, 2017 Bad Ischl (Austria), 2018 Vevey on Lake Geneva, 2019 St Gallen.
It is not intended to be 100% geographically accurate but near enough to be useful I hope. I show all rail routes, including preserved lines, rail museums also cable cars, gondolas etc that are shown in the Swiss national rail timetable http://www.sbb.ch/en/timetable. Details outside the national border are not covered at all.
I found the website http://map.schweizmobil.ch to be very helpful with station locations (© Swisstopo).
As soon as any error is spotted, the map will be updated along with the version number.
You may need to clear your ”cache’ to see updates to this and other Weebly websites
Arosa tram in Chur
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