In message , Arthur Figgis
] writes
I was seriously impressed with some Swiss tram ticket machines which
would take both CHFs and EURs. I was also vaguely pleased to find a
broken machine on a Swiss narrow gauge line in Biel/Bienne - proving
not everything there is perfect.

Working with a group, I once encountered a smashed telephone kiosk
window at a Altstatten station at the lower end of the Appenzellbahn
mountain railway station. The booking clerk kept apologising profusely
to me about it, asking whether or not such things ever happened in
England! To cap it all, as we were boarding the train, a reporter from
the local radio station turned up to cover it.

So yes, Swiss standards are evidently slipping! Tongue firmly in
cheek, although some of Zurich's suburbs might surprise those more used
to rural Switzerland.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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