Rail travel to ski resorts becomes easier with Sunday’s timetable change
Published: Saturday, Dec 9th 2023, 04:40
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The new SBB 2024 timetable comes into force on Sunday. It provides for better connections to tourist destinations such as Valais and Graubünden. From December 10, 31 passenger trains per weekend will also run through the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
According to SBB, the new timetable is intended to provide additional connections where demand is growing the most. From Sunday, there will be four new direct connections between Geneva and Chur throughout the day at weekends.
An earlier Regionalps connection is being introduced in Valais. Commuters will be able to travel earlier from Brig to Bern and Basel from Tuesday to Sunday. The first train will now depart from Upper Valais at 05:16. At the same time, the last train in the opposite direction in the evening will run one hour later than before. It will now arrive in Brig at 00.41.
From Christmas to Easter, on Ascension Day, Whitsun and from June to October, a direct train now connects Zurich with Brig on Saturday mornings. The train also stops in Frutigen in the Bernese Oberland. On Sunday afternoons, a direct train runs in the opposite direction on the same route.
There will also be two new direct connections from Zurich to Einsiedeln at weekends from mid-January to the beginning of March. The Intercity between Zurich and Chur now runs every half hour at weekends throughout the year. For night owls, there will also be a new express connection between Olten and Biel on Friday and Saturday nights.
The original plan was to introduce half-hourly services through the Gotthard Base Tunnel with the timetable change. This change has been delayed due to the accident in the tunnel in August.
From the timetable change, 31 passenger trains will run through the Gotthard Base Tunnel every weekend. From Monday to Thursday, however, all train paths in the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be available for freight traffic.
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