ABSTRACT
The Oberland Express was drawn up on the track nearest to the gangway, next but one to the quayside itself; a single, stolid sleeping car, resplendent in blue and gold, flanked by a dining car and the inevitable fourgon-post for the mail from England to Switzerland. The Oberland Express had been joined in this way to the Engadine Express since 1907. The Engadine Express was instituted on July 6, 1895, especially to convey the Wagons-Lits Company's English guests to their enterprise at Maloja in the Swiss Engadine. The moonlight plays on the mountains opposite, and the lights of the Rhone valley villages vie with those of the Lausanne train, flickering like some glorified glow-worm.
