Obviously, from a trip that involved around 45 train trips, I had to buy a model train of some sort. Now that wasn't going to be some fancy HO scale model - if you think UK locos are expensive, try Swiss ones! Anyway, I didn't see a model of anything I'd travelled on, and wouldn't have got it in the rucksack anyway.
What there was, was a 'fridge magnet. Or rather a set of four. The Berner Oberland set shown above, a modern WAG set, one from the Jungfru, and a steam rack loco.
At 12fr (read: £12) each, I was only going to buy one, and so went for the train I travelled on the most, for the six-minute ride from Wilderswil to Interlaken.
Let's be honest, even if you allow for the model showing the pointy end of the train, not the one in the photo, it's not the greatest model. At 95mm long, I have no idea what the scale is, but around N gauge I suppose.
The real trains are fantasic. Clean, efficient and with little flaps in the doors that open to fill the gap between platform edge and carriage. There's plenty of capacity too. OK, the train splits, but each end is longer than the Leamington to Marylebone service sometimes, and that's between a big town and capital city, not secondary city and the mountains!
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