Rail traffic Timetable change brings more trains during the day and at night

The SBB timetable change on December 15 will bring improvements for commuters. The Lausanne suburb of Renens and Bern Wankdorf station will become long-distance stops. There will also be new night-time connections on long-distance and regional services.

For commuters, this means shorter journeys and the main stations will be relieved, SBB announced on Wednesday.

As part of a pilot project, night services will now run on eight weekends on the Bern-Olten-Zurich main station-Zurich airport route and on several weekends and public holidays between Biel and Geneva airport and between Fribourg and Sion and Geneva airport respectively.

There will also be improvements to the regional night-time networks at weekends. Various additional trains will be running in eastern Switzerland. Between St. Gallen and Sargans, for example, there is a half-hourly service on the long-distance network.

There is now a direct Saturday connection from Geneva Airport via Bern to Locarno. There is an additional train in each direction between Zurich and Munich.

SDA