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TRAINS on POSTAL STATIONERY SWITZERLAND

	PC - 1893 - 5c red ind with no rail interest - image includes train emerging from tunnel on hill at left side of image; good only from 6/25/1893 thru 12/31/1893 TG - Card commemorates 50th Anniversary of 1st stamp in Zurich Canton. TG & DL
	1920 - Package arrival card, Swiss railways - PTPO YD
	1928 ? - SWI.18: Centovalli Railway - (Locarno-Domodossola) Opened in 1923, still in operation - http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/centovalli-onsernone.html TG
	View PCs - 1930's, 40's and 50's (?) - five with same 10c indicium (no rail iterest) and train in photo view at left 1 - GRAUBÜNDEN - Das schöne Ferienland (Beautiful Vacation-land) (Graubünden is the largest and eastern-most canton of Switzerland. Its private railroad system, the Rhätische Bahn, still comprises over 230 miles of railway.) LINKS: http://switzerland.isyours.com/e/guide/graubunden/index.html http://www.myswissalps.com/graubunden/graubunden-transportation.asp?Lang=EN http://www.magicswitzerland.com/graubunden.h tm 2 - Rhätische Bahn und Morteratschgletscher (Morteratsch Glacier - http://www.myswissalps.com/hikes/showhikedetails.asp?Lang=EN&HikeID=19) 3 - Sorengo e Lago di Muzzano (Sorengo and Lake Muzzano) 4 - Krummenau - Toggenburg (Toggenburg is a district in the St. Gall canton of NE Switzerland, Krummenau is a town of the district) 5 - Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn - 2349 m ü M http://www.brienz-rothorn-bahn.ch Switzerland?s oldest steam cog railway, opened in 1892, still in operation during summer and early fall. DL & WS
SWI.3 SWI.4 SWI.5 Tunnel entrance at Brunnen SWI.6 SWI.7	View PCs - 1930's, 40's and 50's - five with various indicia; trains in photo cachets SWI.3 & SWI.4: Two different views of the Niesenbahn funicular railway from Mulenen (near Spiez) to the summit of the Niesen. (Niesenbahn opened in 1910, still in operation: http://europeforvisitors.com/switzaustria/articles/niesenbahn.htm) SWI.5: Morschach: On my railway map of Switzerland (1966) there is a little line Brunnen- Morschach-Axenstein, above lake Lucerne. I asssume this is it. I have a timetable dated 1983 and the train seems to have been replaced by a bus route. 2/27/2005 - viewer John Bird writes: Visited your website and saw reference to the Morschach railway at Brunnen. I have always taken an interest in the Swiss Lakes and since retiring set up a website about all the Swiss and Italian Lake Paddle Steamers ( http://swissitalianpaddlesteamers.com/index.html). I first stayed at Brunnen in the late 1960s and travelled on the little electric train, which left the lakeside at Brunnen Axenstrasse and immediately went into a long climbing tunnel alongside the road towards the only intermediate stop at Morschach Axenfels where most trains terminated, having taken approximately 10 minutes. The line then made a hairpin bend and continued for a further 5 minutes to Axenstein from where there was a wonderful view overlooking Lake Luzern (that is clearly the location of your picture, as the engine is facing Fluelen). I remember the line was included in the local area Holiday Runabout ticket. I have been trying to find out more about the line for some time without success and the reference on your site is the first I have seen for nearly 35 years! The nearest I got was finding a picture of the old tunnel entrance taken, I think, in the 1980s. The line would make a wonderful restoration project, but I doubt it would ever be viable. All I can say is the line was shown open in the Winter 1968-1969 SBB timetable but the following Summer 1969 edition which comenced on 1st June showns buses as far as Morschach Post. Hope that narrows it down a bit further for you, as the line must have been closed for over a decade by the time of your 1983 timetable ! The dates of the railroad were 1905-1969. SWI.6: The Lugano-Ponte Tresa Railway at Sorengo (Opened in 1912, this 12 km line is still in operation: http://www.albertbahn.hu/deutsch/bahn/schweiz/t_flp.html) SWI.7: The funicular railway from Murren to Allmendhubel on the Schilthorn (Bernese Oberland) (Opened in 1912, this line is still in operation: http://www.schilthorn.ch/index.php?uid=15 and http://www.bahn-bus-ch.de/bahnen/schbm/index.html) TG: These are most definitely official Post Office productions. One bought them from machines by inserting a 10c. coin and turning a handle. The trouble was that one never knew what design would come out.
	PCs - 1947 - H&G 229 - set of ten for centenary of Swiss Railroads, all with same indicium, same design as Scott 309; cachets with views of mail processing in and around train stations There are two versions of each card. On one the first line of text below the image, the line that reads "Zusammenarbeit Bahn/Post - Collaboration chemin", is 40mm wide, on the other it is 44 mm wide. They are equally common.
	1949 - SWI.2: Swiss Federation Post Office Centenary, 1949. Card shows interior of Swiss RPO.
	PPC - 1990 - Opening of Swiss Postal Museum, Bern; set of three cards, one with picture of early postal rail wagon
	ATA HB entry: 9/9/98 - 70c - (Tourism) - plain postal card with imprinted stamp showing a child's drawing with a three-coach train on a railway viaduct
	ATA HB entry: 9/24/99 - "Postage Paid" - postal picture card to mark 11/19/1999 opening of the 22 km Vereina Line of the Rhaetian Railway (Rhatischenbahn); printed stamp indicium depicts front view of an electric train, & depicted on the picture side of the card is an electric passenger train on a viaduct

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