Andermatt cogwheel & Glacier Express experience
A traveler named Istaffa is planning a trip from Zurich to Lucerne with 5 people. They want to experience the Cogwheel and Glacier Express trains, specifically asking if it's possible to travel from Lucerne to Göschenen and take the Cogwheel train to Andermatt. The advice generally warns that the trip is not ideal for just one day.
- To take the Glacier Express to Göschenen, you typically start in Chur or Zermatt.
- If you're short on time, consider visiting the Pilatus or Rigi cogwheel trains, which are more accessible from Luzern.
- The trains between Göschenen and Andermatt are brief; it may not be worth a return trip just for that distance.
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Hello , we are travelling from Zurich to Lucerne by car . We (5 of us) like to experience the Cogwheel train tride and Glacier express train tride. It is possible to go by Glacier express to Goschenen and Cogwheel train to Adermatt ?
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Hi Istaffa and welcome to MySwissAlps!
You would need to get to Chur or Zermatt typically to take the Glacier Express train to Göschenen (or start in Göschenen). Between Andermatt and Göschenen is a cogwheel train yes.
You can find train schedules between any towns on the timetable here: https://www.myswissalp s.com/timetable
What is the trip you want to make that day? Starting in Luzern and getting back there later that night?
Depending on your timings you could do the Gornergrat cog wheel from Zermatt, just across the road from the railway station. It is about a 30 minute ride, we did it last week, it is good, but it is just up & down, so your time depends on how long you stay up there. Great views of the Matterhorn, and other peaks, weather permitting.
Ian
The Gornergrat trip is longer than Göschenen to Andermatt – only 10 minutes!
How can i get tickets from Göschenen to Andermatt ? We (5) travelling by car from Zurich to Luzern then we have to get back to Zurich that night. Can we drive to Göschenen and come back ?
You want to drive to Göschenen, then train to Andermatt and back to Göschenen then drive back to Luzern? I don’t think the trip is worth it for such a short train trip….
Not really worth it.
If you only have one day out from Zürich and you want to visit Luzern, the nearest ‘cogwheel’ (aka rack railway in English English) is the Pilatus or the Rigi.
For the Pilatus, you would take the motorway from Zürich through Luzern to Alpnachstad
Having said the above, did you know there is a ‘cogwheel’ railway right in the middle of Zürich?
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