in his country have been abandoned. “The Swiss network has evolved in this way because Switzerland doesn’t have an automobile industry,” Lauinger surmises. He describes the German network as less centralised than in France, but one that operates on a just-in-time basis. “In Switzerland, trains aren’t alLa Plaine (GE), the most westerly railway station in Switzerland, shown here in the dark. La Plaine is the starting point of the great westeast crossing. Photo: Stéphane Herzog says Clédat, who points out that “a train journey pollutes much less than four people driving in a car”. They both admire the Swiss network’s density. “It’s unlike the French network, which is designed as a radial system, with Paris at its centre,” Clédat says, and he regrets that many shorter lines Swiss Review / December 2022 / No.6 21
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