Changing trains at Zurich HB: is 7 minutes enough?
A traveler named Maya is planning to travel from Interlaken to Chiasso next month. She wants to know if a 7-minute change of trains at Zurich HB is enough time to get from platform 34 to platform 8. Yolanda reassured Maya that this transfer time is generally sufficient and provided useful information about the station layout.
- You will have enough time to change from platform 34 to platform 8 in 7 minutes at Zurich HB, as there are lifts and escalators available.
- If you haven't purchased a ticket yet, consider looking into the Swiss Travel Pass for added convenience during your travels.
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Greetings,
We are looking into traveling from Interlaken to Chiasso the coming month. This route has a change of trains in Zurich HB from platform 34 to platform 8, in a duration of 7 minutes.
Kindly advise if 7 minutes would suffice to change the platforms 34 to 8.
Regards.
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Hello Maya Saudin,
Welcome to MySwissAlps.
Yes, generally all transit times to ongoing connections on the SBB timetable are achievable.
Platform 34 at Zurich HB is underground below the shops, you just need to make your way to the main train station concourse where platform 8 is located. There are lifts and escalators available.
Here’s our handy link on the Swiss rail system:
Kind regards,
Yolanda
Dear Yolanda,
Sincerely appreciate your feedback.
I shall come back and post an update about how this went.
Regards.
Most welcome.
Enjoy the trip. Just a thought, not sure if you have already purchased a ticket or rail pass but here is our helpful link explaining all, just in case:
Any questions, feel free to reach out.
Kind regards,
Yolanda
Sorry I meant to start a new thread but didn’t find the right link ! 1. How to start a new thread ? I did a few years ago but now I could not find the right place 2. My question is— I want to buy ticket from Lugano -> bellinzona but not knowing all zone situation ? Please explain! See attached pictures !
TIA
Hi fiona travel,
To create a new post, if you navigate to the “Get in touch” tab at the top of site, click and the drop down menu will appear, which will give the option to click on “Forum”. Here you can post a new thread in the relevant forum.
If you are staying in Lugano you may want to check out if your hotel offers you a free Ticino Ticket. This offers free and discounted travel within the area. See here for more details, you may want to check if it covers travel to Bellinzona as I believe it may do so:
If not, your ticket from Lugan0-Bellinzona, you can buy the one-way 5-zone Arcobaleno ticket, per your first screen shot. You’ll only need to top up with an extension if you are traveling outside of the 5-zone Arcobaleno network. You can view the zone map in the below link.
Kind regards,
Yolanda
Thank you !
Yeah unfortunately we will stay at a managed hotel apartment for three days and the manager says they don’t have Ticino card 🥲🥹but holiday card which is useless for us ! (I really need a bus card during the stay 🥲)
We will stay in a hotel in bellinzona for one night and they will offer me a Ticino card which I doubt we will use as we will only visit the Saturday market and planning on walking two castles there ! It’s a Saturday !
regards to ticket , I try to understand “ zone “ , what is that ? Does it mean the ticket is good for the zoned areas for a hop on and hop off ? It says 2 hour ? It means you can hop on and off within 2 hour window without needing to buy a new ticket ?
Hi Fionatravel,
A zone is indeed a region where you can hop on and off all modes of transport within the given time, e.g. 2 hours. We call that a “fare network” on our page here, under “Getting a ticket”: http://www.myswissalps.com/train/practical/howtotravel
I’ll now close this thread as it was about another topic originally. Feel free to open a new one.
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