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Dear Amit Kumar
Welcome to MySwissAlps.
Most Swiss towns have only one train station, and I think this this the case for all lines you mention. If you go to Gogle Maps, and search for <Name of town> -Station, you’ll find the right place. E.g. <Montreux Station>.
I am not aware of such a thing like Gotthard Express Boat. There is a Gotthard Panorama Express, which is a train.
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Thanks Snowman for your reply.
You are right there is no Gotthard express boat. What I meant was the route generally mentioned from Lucerne to Lugano and first stretch of the route from Lucerne to flulen via boat/cruise
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Hi Amit,
Yes all towns would just have 1 “main station” where are trains coming to that town will arrive at.
Some larger towns may have some (much smaller) train stations around the town – getting commuters to their homes in the suburbs, but they will be named differently and very obviously won’t be the main station in those larger towns, like Lucerne, Zurich etc.
Lucerne/Luzern main station is just “Luzern”. Zurich’s main station is noted as “Zurich” or “Zurich Hauptbahnhof” (main station in German).
Small towns, as Snowman notes, like Zermatt, St. Moritz etc will have only the one station.
If you ask anyone for help getting to “the train station” in any town, they will direct you to the main station if there are more than one by default.
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Hi Amit Kumar! We describe the rail journeys you’re interested in on the pages below. They include the names of the railway stations:
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Hi Amit Kumar –
If you use this map, and turn on icons for variuos transport option sunder “Points of Interest/Traffic”
you will see the blue icons appear. Mouse over the icon to get the exact name.
map.search.ch/?pos=666527,211404&z=25 6&poi=bergbahn,haltest elle,zug
Oddly, ship landings show up when you turn on trams,buses.
Slowpoke
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Slow poke.
Why then does the sbb.ch site list 5 or 6 names for Interlaken when you search for stations to buy a ticket?
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Interlaken Ost And Interlaken West are the 2 railway stations. All others are local bus stops.
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<<“Why then does the sbb.ch site list 5 or 6 names for Interlaken when you search for stations to buy a ticket? “>>
Snowman to the rescue! As he says, they are bus stops, and you can get a ticket to them, too.
Use the map as I suggested, turn on rail, tram, bus and then mouse over Interlaken Ost.
There are 2 icons. One gives the official name for the rail station The other gives the Official name for the bus stop.
map.search.ch/?pos=633377,171154&z=25 6&poi=bergbahn,haltest elle,mobility,viasuiss e,zug
I’m working at zoom level 256. Mouse over another of the bus icons. You get the name of the bus stop.
On the SBB website, the main station is the first name. In the advanced version of the timetable, you can turnoff buses if you wish. The names of the bus stops will disappear. I think. 😉
At Interlaken, it is a good idea to turn on Mountain Transport, and move south, toward Wengen or Stechelberg. Then, you will see the cableways.
Slowpoke
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Hi
I will be travelling to Geneva for a short stay and would like a visit ti Mt Titilis from Geneva. Can you advice best travel options?
Thanks,
Meera
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Hi Meera-
Welcome to My Swiss Alps.
Could you please start a new thread of your own with your query?
Then, it will be easier to find in the future, because it will hae it’s own name, as the forum rules suggest. That way you and others kind find it more easily if the want to know about the topic.
http://www.myswissalps.com/fo rum/rules
Slowpoke
PS- The timetable will give you your answers. http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable