<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A Swiss railway company claimed the record for the world’s longest passenger train Saturday with a trip on one of the most spectacular tracks through the Alps.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Rhaetian Railway company ran the 1.9-kilometre-long train composed of 100 coaches along the Albula-Bernina route from Preda to Bergün.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The route was designated a UNESCO World Heritage in 2008 and leads through 22 tunnels, some of which spiral through mountains, and across 48 bridges, including the curved Landwasser Viaduct.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We have a jubilee of 175 years of Swiss Railways, and this world record attempt should be one big event of this jubilee", explained Rhaetian Railway's CEO, Dr Renato Fasciati.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"But actually, the reason was that we had some troubles during corona crisis (COVID-19 pandemic), so we lost 30% of our turnover for guests on the train and so we tried to find a good event in order to increase the awareness of our beautiful UNESCO's World Heritage route.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And so this world record attempt is a wonderful reason and a wonderful instrument for us to show the world this beautiful railway", he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The entire journey took over an hour. Rail enthusiasts lined the valley to watch the train’s 25 sections wind their way through the Alps.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The scenery is like the Indian summers so you see these golden trees in this beautiful valley, we have this railway line with a lot of viaducts and this spiral of tunnels... It's a viaduct with a radius of 100 metres, and then the line goes directly into a rock face, into a tunnel and this is really fantastic" said Fasciati.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"And so we have people from all over the world just coming and seeing this beautiful line using the glacier or the Bernina Express trains", he concluded.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fasciati is hoping when people in other countries see the beauty of the countryside during the train's record-breaking attempt, they too will be drawn to this region of Switzerland. EN</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>