Swiss Timetable Tidbits #1

Over the long Christmas weekend, I had a chance to finally take a first good look at the new Swiss timetable (the printed version - it’s way better to just read in it than the online version - the latter is really “only” good for looking up a point-to-point schedule) and here’s a first posting of some interesting details (this kind of follows up on my earlier post about short headways).

Zürich Hauptbahnhof - Zürich Altstetten - Killwangen/Spreitenbach
(you need to read tables #650/#700/#710 to find all these trains).
At the peak of the full hour outbound “flow” out of Zürich Hauptbahnhof, there are 5 trains scheduled within 2 minutes of each other going from Zürich outbound on the common line to Killwangen (where the lines to Baden-Brugg and Lenzburg diverge):

.58 Interregio 20xx (Schaffhausen)-Zürich HB-Olten-Bern
.00 Intercity 8xx Romanshorn-Zürich HB-Bern-Interlaken Ost/Brig
.02 Intercity 7xx Chur-Zürich HB-Basel
.04 ICN (1)5xx St. Gallen-Zürich HB-Biel-Lausanne/Geneve
.06 Interregio 19xx Zürich HB-Brugg-Olten-Bern

and then, ~4 minutes later, there will be another train:

(.10) (departing Zürich Altstetten at .15) Interregio 20xx Zürich Flughafen-Zürich Altstetten-Baden-Basel

This will be repeated every hour - and the same trains also go the other way, arriving inbound at Zürich HB shortly before the full hour. Plus, there’s another smaller “wave” of trains before and after the half hour point.

Posted in: Uncategorized | December 27, 2004 8:50 am