After all

AMONG ALL the big and small demises of 2017, there was one hardly noticed by anyone, except perhaps for the shrinking breed of train timetable collectors and compilers, as well as by a few technologically backward travellers who still prefer printed copy to the online version. I am talking about the super-comprehensive and reassuringly trilingual Swiss Official Timetable, also known as the Offizielles Kursbuch (in German), Indicateur Officiel (in French) and Orario Officiale (in Italian), or simply the Kursbuch — a bulky, over 2000 pages each, three volume set covering railroads, cableways and boats (Volume 1), buses in Western Switzerland (Vol. 2) and buses in Eastern Switzerland (Vol. 3).