Sparkling Time On Very Top of Europe ; Travel Ian Winter Enjoys a Spectacular Setting On a Swiss Eurocamp Holiday.
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IT was still in the era of steam trains I used to help the signalman at Scremerston level crossing open and close the gates as locomotives such as The Mallard hauled trains along the LNER line through Berwick.
I was a train spotter, and in one of the Ian Allan annuals of those days I learned of a Swiss railway which not only made its way through the spectacular Alps, it went through the north face of the Eiger and on to Europe's highest-altitude railway station - an amazing 3,454 metres.See the full content of this document
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Sparkling Time On Very Top of Europe ; Travel Ian Winter Enjoys a Spectacular Setting On a Swiss Eurocamp Holiday.
It became my ambition to visit Jung-fraujoch.
My wife Karen, 13-year-old stepson Philip, and I were staying in a Eurocamp mobile home at Manor Farm a typically well equipped campsite on the shores of Lake Thun, a few miles from Interlaken in Switzerland.Armed with the maps, guide books and detailed route supplied by Eurocamp, we had trave...See the full content of this document
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