Your Last Train Journey?

[SwissFan91]

Greetings all after a long time away from the forums!

My last set of train journeys earlier this month were spectacular!

Zurich Airport to Brig
Stalden Saas to Zermatt
Zermatt to St Moritz (Glacier Express)
St Moritz to Zurich Airport

I have a question regarding an incident while travelling on RE41 to Zermatt above last month. We were travelling mid morning and our train was sat in the passing loop between Kalpetran and St Niklaus.

The driver announced we were waiting for a train to pass which was shortly followed by the Glacier Express train passing us. As we set off, our train came to a shuddering halt and the whole carriage shook for several seconds and seemed to grind to one side. My first thought was that we had somehow struck the passing train but that seemed to continue passing without incident. After probably 10/15 minutes sat stationary, including the lights going on and off (turn it off and on again?) I was convinced we had derailed.

Without further announcement the train suddenly started again and took off at high speed towards St Niklaus. After maybe 3-4 minutes of travelling we came to another shuddering halt, this time not in a passing loop. I couldn’t tell if the grinding noises caused the stop or if the stop caused the grinding noise but after a shorter delay we took off again towards St Niklaus.

I assumed we would maybe disembark in St Niklaus and change trains but no - our journey continued without any further alarm until Zermatt.

I assume no derailing occurred given our journey continued each time but can anyone shed any light on what might have happened? I don’t believe we were joining/leaving the rack rail adhesion when the stop happened but did we just lose grip on the rack? Did the driver perform two emergency stops? For the record, I travel on trains frequently and I have never experienced this before. I haven’t travelled on the MGB too often but frequently on the GGB which is rack assisted throughout.

Any thoughts from those wiser than me would be appreciated!

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Well, I was on a cruise last week, and that means my last train journey was actually in the Netherlands.
The cruise ship pulled into a terminal next to the Erasmus Bridge. So i had a journey from Wilhelminaplein next to the bridge, up to Beurs. Where I had to change lines to get to Blaack. I then admired the cube houses of Rotterdam! The Kijk-Kubus Museum-house was a very fun look inside one of them.

Very simple to use metro, I have to say. Well signposted, rather tidy too. I enjoy how each station isn't just a copy paste of the last one which often happens on the London Underground.
Sadly the dumb app I made for my signature is hardcoded to only understand trains in Great Britain

I was also in Germany & Belgium, but alas. I did not use their trains (nor trams, they had trams too!)