Where is the Golden Pass line timetable?

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    15 December 2018 at 15:06:24 #819193

    Hi…Where can I find a Timetable in English for Golden Pass Line from Lucerne to Montreux? Can someone please post a link here? Thanks

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    Arno
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    15 December 2018 at 16:49:24 #900427

    Hi NP50, welcome to MySwissAlps!

    The Route section of our Golden Pass page explains about the route and the timetable, and links to both the dedicated Golden Pass timetable and the nation wide timetable where you can find these trains, and all the others as well.

    http://www.myswissalps.com/go ldenpass/gettingthere

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    16 December 2018 at 0:43:32 #900428

    You shouldn’t need an ‘English language’ timetable as such for the Golden Pass route.

    The official Swiss Timetable PDF is here:

    http://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/ fileadmin/fap_pdf_fiel ds/2019/471.pdf

    The timings should be quite clear, all you need to understand is that reservations are not obligatory and that there is engineering work bus replacement near Luzern 18 March – 14 April 2019

    Basically if you follow the times in one column you will be on that timing throughout the trip, and you will see that to go from Luzern to Montreux that only happens every 2 hours. For example look at the 10.06 departure from Luzern (IR2920) – it has no connection after Interlaken

    But look at the 09.06, 11.06, 13.06 and 15.06 departures from Luzern. They all have continuous timings all the way to the bottom of the column, showing that if you depart Luzern at 11.06 you will eventually arrive at Montreux at 16.13

    The PDF also shows the connection either end of the route, for example on 11.06 – 16.13 example above, you can start on a connecting train at Zurich 10.04 and connect through to Geneva arriving 17.30

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    17 December 2018 at 1:38:04 #900429

    Thank you so much . That really helped.

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    18 December 2018 at 0:42:20 #900430

    You may already know this but I should perhaps have clarified that at present the service Luzern – Montreux is in three sections:

    Luzern – Interlaken Express (ZB railway, narrow gauge). not really the Golden Pass, but actually the Brünig Pass railway

    Interlaken Ost – Spiez – Zweisimmen (BLS Railway, standard gauge ‘full size’ railway)

    Zweisimmen – Montreux (MOB railway, narrow gauge) – the ‘true’ Golden Pass

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