Dear Doctor Rail,
The timetable changes every year – what’s happening this year? And how does such a timetable actually come about?
Kind regards,
Dora
Dear Dora,
Thank you for your question. The last couple of years we have explained what happens and what modifications are made. There are a few changes this year too; fewer than in June as the cross-city link was put into operation for the Zurich S-Bahn in the greater Zurich area.
In French-speaking Switzerland trains will run at half-hourly intervals from Monday to Friday between Fribourg and Romont (new S40 line) and between Fribourg, Payerne and Yverdon-les-Bains (new S30 line). There will also be new connections from Yverdon-les-Bains to Lausanne. The “Basse-Broye” bus routes have been reorganised and coordinated with the new RER Fribourg I Freiburg connections.
Journeys to the south and back will be more convenient from 14 December 2014: on the Gotthard route, ETR 610 trains will come into operation. In total, 15 trains of this type will run on the Gotthard and Simplon routes in future. They have comfortable seats, a dining car, power sockets at all seats, a customer information system and a great deal of space for luggage. These trains will replace the existing SBB ETR 470 compositions in stages.
During the Expo Milano 2015 world exhibition from 1 May to 31 October 2015, numerous special event trains from SBB and Trenitalia will operate to Milan: up to four every day, and from August up to five special event trains, with around 2500 additional seats, will run to the Rho Fiera Milano trade fair station and back, from all parts of the country. Therefore, it will also be possible to visit the exhibition as a day trip. In Switzerland, the admission tickets for Expo Milano 2015 are exclusively available from SBB. You will find information about this at www.sbb.ch/en/expo2015.
Further information on the new timetable:
We wish you a good journey.
Doctor Rail
P.S. If you would really like to know how a timetable is developed, take a look here: our colleagues from SBB Infrastructure have put together an information poster.
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