I see your post with the 35 minute delay in Zurich and raise with my picture of the state of train circulation. Snow blocked the only track to Lausanne. How could we know it snows in CH?

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  1. Description: snow is apparently too much for the best train system in the universe and paralyzed access to an entire Canton

  5. So, anyone is experienced how to de-ice/snow about 3000km of trails within minutes? Call them – you‘ll get the job

  8. as a Kraut working in Zürich/Switzerland … the native Swiss people may complain … but the Swiss trains run like clockwork compared to other countries … try commuting by train in Germany in winter … you will learn a whole new level of pain … like being stuck in the middle of nowhere at a train station in a village you’ve never heard of freezing 6 hours

  10. After reading comments of people complaining : to be fair, such heavy snow events are so rare it’s not really worth having heated tracks or snow flamethrowers ready to be deployed at any time. It just happens and we have to deal with it for a few days.

    Same with the flooding of this summer. Train tracks in Freiburg were paralyzed for over a week, why not invest millions in pumps and drains? Because it happens once every 15 years. If we invested in preventing all the little risks, the tickets would be even more expensive (because CEO needs to eat, you know how that goes…)

    Be careful on the road yall, and enjoy the snow 🙂

  13. Snow? here? Unthinkable!

    What’s the world coming to? Next there’ll be leaves! Leaves on the tracks!

  17. I was probably standing right next to you, i just got to work 10min ago. 3 hours late from geneva, was supposed to leave at 9.30 this morning.

  19. The Lausanne-Geneve rail connection has really been through the ringer this end of year.

    I love how all the major trains are blocked by the tiny NStC mountain train is running perfectly on time haha. It’s of course to be expected because that little mountain line has very regular snowfall and dedicated rames to clearing that snowfall.

  22. We know that snow will come. We just can’t sort it out faster than it fall down. Transit is always going to operate on the line because you can’t stock pile snow plowing and snow will not fall on a schedule. So if the day of a heavy snowfall stuff breaks isn’t really a problem.

    The biggest issue is how many bottleneck Romandie has more than and the geography of it. Puidoux-Palézieux is a place where you can get quite a bit of snow fast and so much depends on it. Because if you want to do Lausanne Bern, you don’t really have another way at the moment. Basel is doable from the Jura, but Bern gets messy.

  23. They should act in advance and start clearing the snow before it actually fell, in order to be done when people have to go to work.

  24. Travelled from Geneva to Lugano via Olten today. As a Brit, I’m pretty impressed by your infrastructure for days like today! A few mins delays. It’s much better than the British hysteria when there’s an inch of snow or wrong type of leaves on the track (yup) which would see some train services being cancelled. It’s snowing hard in Neuchatel/Bienne area at the time which results the train running slow. But managed to catch my Olten-Lugano connection ok.

    I have my issues with CFF but they’re much better than Network Rail and its franchises back in the UK!

  25. Wow I remember when I lived in Switzerland and the biggest problem was the occasional 30 min delay. Try living in the U.K. it’s usually best to plan for two hours for a ten minute journey on public transport!

  27. Lmao. There hasnt been a train on time in Vaud since 01.01.21. And to make matters worse, theryre doing some contruction work in the highway from lausanne towards aigle. Vaud is very very good at fixing everything on time at the cost of having everything frozen for 3 years simultaneously

  28. Swiss trains are always on time*

    *unless it snows, rains, dirt, wind, or the train driver is French

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