Last day, it's a bit cloudy, and I've presents to buy... so up to Andermatt for souvenir shopping, one hop on the train to Hospental, and a gentle wander back along the valley. The tourist horse-drawn post coach was in town, complete with a man in a van for the luggage, who also had a shovel for cleaning up afterwards:

Every hour at Andermatt, it looks totally chaotic, as coaches are removed from the Brig-Göschenen train, only a portion going forward, while in the station at the same time is the Disentis/Andermatt service plus the one coming up the hill from Göschenen and one going to Brig (I think that's right - I never did get it all straight in my head!)

This photo is taken from the Brig-bound train, which is trapped in platform 4 until some of the others have gone and the spare coaches are shunted out of the way for a returning service:

Everything sorts itself out eventually, and I hopped off at Hospental, where I lay in wait for the Glacier Express, or rather Expresses, as in summer, there are four in each direction, at roughly half hour intervals, four trains eastbound and then four west:

View back from the tower in the previous picture to the right of the church, towards Andermatt:

You can also see right across to the curves up the hill to the other side of Andermatt. Glacier Express in the centre of the picture:

Local train at Hospental, in the typical Andermatt-Brig formation with the loco in the centre:

Two Glacier Expresses for the price of one: as the first heads west in the valley, the next is making its way down the hill into Andermatt:

Local train by the river

And back to Andermatt station, where a stabled loco and track machine will soon be passed by a train from Disentis coming down the hill. I did see one of the older locos (HGe 4/4^I I think) with a kind of veranda at the front, running light engine, but I wasn't quick enough with my camera to record it.

The technology that makes the hills possible:

And finally back to Göschenen, as the clouds close in:

All that's left is a "routine" journey tomorrow to Basel, changing for the somewhat claustrophobic double-deck Lyria TGV to Paris, then Eurostar to Ashford and a quick change (6 mins from Eurostar to Javelin, including buying a ticket from the machine!) to get back to my bed for the night in Kent.

For the record, when I left my hotel, the clouds were down and the mountains had disappeared for once - my umbrella was needed after all, for the 2 minute stumble down to the station:

That's all folks. If you've sat through my holiday snaps to the end, thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed being there and then writing about it.