A NEW world record for the longest ever passenger train has been set on a UNESCOWorld Heritage line in the Swiss Alps.
Following eight months of preparation, on October 29 the record was set on Switzerland’s metre-gauge Rhaetian Railway’s (RhB) Albula Line. The 2085-yard long (about 1.2-mile) train comprised 25 four-car Stadler Capricorn EMUs, making 100 vehicles and weighing 2990 tonnes in