The world's longest passenger train - an assembly of 100 connected coaches measuring nearly two kilometers - wound through the breathtaking scenery in the Swiss Alps. Photo:AFP

The world's longest passenger train - an assembly of 100 connected coaches measuring nearly two kilometers - wound through the breathtaking scenery in the Swiss Alps. The Rhaetian Railway (RhB) said that it had beaten the world record for the longest passenger train.

The 1,910-meter-long train, composed of 25 separable multiple-unit trains, or 100 coaches, traveled through the Alps in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubunden, carrying 150 passengers.

While there are freight trains that are longer, with some measuring over 3 kilometers, Saturday's event featured by far the longest passenger train ever run. It was several hundred meters longer than a train that held the unofficial previous record, in Belgium in the 1990s.