If you feel like getting away over the holidays, Swiss Federal Railways and its European partners offer many international travel options. Here's a run through of what's available.
Switzerland opened its Ceneri tunnel on Friday - completing a mammoth project cutting a new route through the Alps which should transform rail links between northern and southern Europe.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has called for controls to be put in place at the Swiss border after the death of boy who was allegedly pushed under a train by an Eritrean man living in Zurich and on the run from police.
Some machines at rural stations print less than 10 tickets per day. It costs 30,000 Swiss francs to replace them and the SBB, the national rail authority, is taking the decisions to replace them on a case-by-case basis as digital ticket sales boom.
When two Swiss students set off very early last Friday morning to try and set a record-breaking time for the Swiss Train Challenge, they knew it wasn't going to be easy.
In a first for Switzerland, three long-distance 'low-cost' bus lines will come into operation on Sunday, providing competition to the national rail network.
Concrete blocks were installed at Zurich train station on Saturday night in an effort to improve security for passengers using the station, Zurich police said.
Train services from Lucerne station are suspended on Thursday after a train travelling from Milan derailed when leaving Lucerne on Wednesday afternoon.
