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Hi Rodger ajero,
please read at http://www.myswissalps.com/be rninaexpress under “Regular trains versus Bernina Express”, I hope it will answer your question regarding the Bernina Express.
See also http://www.myswissalps.com/st moritz about St. Moritz.
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exactly the same views, except if you bend your neck you might see a few extra bits of mountainside through the ‘toplight’ windows of the Bernina Express carriages
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how about the difference in cost of both Bernina Vs Local train
Are the seating good for local trains ?
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Hi Asimm76,
you can check the prices in the timetable at http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable. You will need a seat reservation on Bernina Express (http://www.myswissalps.com/be rninaexpress/tickets). If you have a rail pass like the Swiss Travel Pass you do not need to buy ticket, just a seat reservation. You do not need the seat reservation on local trains just on the Bernina Express.
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‘Local trains’ are cheaper as you don’t pay the extra reservation fee.
In any case on slow steeply graded single-track mountain lines like the Bernina, local trains are not much slower than ‘express’ trains
The benefits of the ‘panoramic’ coaches are open to debate. It hardly matters if you don’t go in a ‘panoramic’ coach as most Swiss trains have large windows, even if not officially panoramic. The key element of a ‘panoramic’ coach is ‘toplight’ windows above your head but in practice very few of the major views from panoramic trains are directly above your head, so the view through the normal side part of windows is normally fine.
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Hi 1960man,
Just tagging you to have a look at this post – http://www.myswissalps.com/fo rum/topic/basel-sbb-to-colmar.