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I live in the Netherlands, where we have some pretty great trains. But there's a country in Europe that does trains better. Much better, in fact.

Switzerland has some of the best trains in the entire world - second, perhaps, only to Japan. What makes these trains so good? And what is it like to actually ride them?

The Slowest Express Train in the World - The Glacier Express
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References and Additional Reading

The integrated timetable of Switzerland
https://www.jokteur.com/a/integrated-...

Watching the Swiss: A network approach to rural and exurban public transport
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Live map of the Swiss Railways Network
https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/

Trafimage - Live Swiss Railway Punctuality
https://maps.trafimage.ch/ch.sbb.netz...

How Punctual is SBB?
https://company.sbb.ch/en/the-company...

SBB Facts and Figures - Punctuality
https://reporting.sbb.ch/punctuality

Are Swiss trains becoming less punctual, pricier and more dangerous?
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/public-t...

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