[Fairbanks_an]

18 February 2019 at 6:27:25 #819983

We arrive in Zurich at 2:10 Pm September 21st is it to late to plan on the golden pass that day?

Thank you for your time

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18 February 2019 at 9:01:20 #904481

Hello Faibanks an

The Golden Pass Route consist of three sections, as you can see in the “route” tab of this link: http://www.myswissalps.com/go ldenpass

You could definitely start on the route, doing it all the way to Montreux is also possible, it takes a few hours however. Use this link for travel time details: http://www.myswissalps.com/ti metable

Depending on your plans and available time you can stay at Lucerne or Interlaken for example, splitting the train ride on to different days.

– http://www.myswissalps.com/lu cerne
– http://www.myswissalps.com/in terlaken

Get back to us for any further questions.

Happy planning.

Best,
Steph

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19 February 2019 at 1:30:58 #904482

The true ‘GoldenPass’ is only the railway from Zweisimmen to Montreux – which you can reach from Zürich quickly on an inter city train via Bern; here’s my standard wording on the ‘GoldenPass route’:

A few facts about the Montreux – Zweisimmen railway – ie the MOB (Montreux-Oberland – Bernois):

The Golden Pass is historically only Montreux – Zweisimmen, only more recent marketing branding takes the ‘Goldenpass route’ east of Zweisimmen to Interlaken and beyond to Luzern.

The Golden Pass is the touristic branding for the Montreux – Oberland Bernois (MOB) railway but after a few years of favouring ‘Goldenpass services’, the company decided it was losing its tradition and has reverted to putting the Chemin de Fer Montreux – Oberland Bernois name on publicity and train coaches.

MOB pioneered the Panoramic coach concept on Swiss trains, starting in 1976.

There are now several versions of panoramic coaches in service, but MOB keeps changing its mind how to dub each service.

Here is the timetable PDF for the MOB: http://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/ fileadmin/fap_pdf_fiel ds/2019/120.pdf

It is very scenic, but the MOB route is far from being the most spectacular (although any dubbing of this nature is going to subjective and personal) in Switzerland.