Madrid – A passenger train travelling from the Spanish city of Barcelona to Milan, in Italy, ended up in Switzerland because of a carriage switch mistake, Spanish daily El Pais reported on Wednesday.

Mark Smith, 'the man in seat 61', responds to a query on train travel to Italy via the Swiss Alps. Mark Smith is the "Man in Seat 61" and founder of www.seat61.com, devoted to rail travel worldwide.

“Switzerland through and through” – that’s the slogan applied by Swiss Railways to its shiny new addition to the network. The organisation has just completed the longest railway tunnel in the world.