“Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.”

– E. M. Forster

Switzerland has proven to be one of the countries with the easiest and most proficient way of moving around the country through their network of trains. Their national railway company is called Swiss Federal Railways which is usually referred to by the initials of its German, French and Italian names SBB (German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen), CFF (French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses) and FFS (Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere).

The Swiss train system made it easy for me to travel to Bern and Geneva from Basel during my trip. I booked and paid it online.