Seeking Swiss timetables

[lawried123]

Does anyone know where you find complete railway timetables for various routes in s Switzerland. All I seem to be able to find are in the SBB website where you can put in a time from and a time to and it works put a route for you.

For planning a holiday in Switzerland, I really needed complete timetable list for various routes to see what different trains there were and to plan an itinerary, as you get for different lines on British railway company websites. But all I seem to find are these annoying websites where you start and finish a particular journey at a particular time.

HHas anyone any thoughts on where you look

Lawrie

 

[zero]

For my planning in Switzerland I started with the GA validity map to see where trains and buses go.

GA Travelcard area of validity | SBB

The GA Travelcard area of validity determines on which trains, S-Bahn trains, trams, Postbuses, buses, boats and mountain lifts and railways your GA Travelcard is valid.

www.sbb.ch

Then I used the German site to see all trains departing or arriving from a station. As reported on here in the past week or so DB has made some negative changes to their site, but you can still get that function by clicking through for example here

Deutsche Bahn: bahn.de - Haltestelleninformationen - Ausgabe

reiseauskunft.bahn.de

There may be better options but I had successful trips just by using these.

 

[Re 4/4]

Start at https://www.öv-info.ch/de. On the page,

• Fahrplan: timetable
• Streckenfahrplan: timetable for a particular route
• Abfahrtsplakat: (all) departures poster for a particular station

If for whatever reason your browser doesn't "get" the umlaut, then www.%C3%B6v-info.ch/de should work as an alternative.

 

[blackfive460]

You could start with https://www.xn--v-info-vxa.ch/de which will give you access to public transport timetables across Switzerland. Only available in German.

Edit: beaten too it! That's the same site as in the post above!

 

[Re 4/4]

Yes, the conventions for internationalising URLs are rather a mouthful. Of course, www.oev-info.ch/de also works, which is how any self-respecting Swiss person would deal with the problem.

 

[AlbertBeale]

The European Rail Timetable (published quarterly) doesn't have all services listed in each country section in it, but it's a good starting point, showing at least the basic service pattern on most routes, together with "proper timetables" for major routes. I've used it for planning journeys within Switzerland in the past, even if I then checked things locally as I went along.

I agree that the current trend (on many transport providers) towards just telling you a specific link if you ask a specific question - rather than presenting the overall information in a clear pattern, from which you can deduce everything you need to know - is a retrograde step, and makes journey planning (other for a simple pre-determined point-to-point trip) much harder. (As does the lack of system maps too.) Is the lower availability of maps and timetables these days a sign of dumbing down? Are people not to be trusted to - or are they incapable of - receiving structured information and making their own choices?