Changing trains in Samedan in only 2 minutes?

Hello Experts,

We will be arriving at Zurich Airport at 3:00 pm on June 11 and need to take a train to Pontresina. I checked the time table and am worried that we have only two minutes to change trains with luggage in Samedan. I have attached a screen shot of the time table. Would you be able to suggest an alternate route where we'll have enough time to make the connection? Thank you.

Hi Travelbug,

The attachment shows another trip, but the two minute change is no problem. It's a simple cross platform "efficient" change. I've done it multiple times. You can make it a bit easier by sitting in the middle of the train rather than in the first or last carriage. That gives you a nearly 100% chance of stopping directly across your next train, so you only need to walk 10 meters or so.

If you do miss that train, there's a next one, and there are buses too in that region.

Small station. They will wait for the train.

See this image of the station:

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Zoom in.

Your screen shot does not show that journey, and shows a date in January, 2015.....?

slowpoke

Thank you for your advice Arno and Slowpoke. We will follow your great suggestion to sit n the mid section of the train. Sorry about the wrong attachment. Even though my screen shot shows the timetable for June 11 from Zurich airport at 17:18, it somehow defaults to another schedule when I attach the picture. Sorry.

Hi Travelbug53,

I'm not sure what happened to your attachment. Perhaps it's a bug in the forum. I noticed you named it "image". I wonder what happens if you give it a unique name such as "image2016060301" before uploading it. If that works it's a problem in the forum and I will plan a fix.

Thank you Arno. I took a screen shot from my computer, pasted it in Paint and renamed it to see if it attaches correctly. Maybe it's because I took a screen shot and attached it from my tablet in my previous post.

This time it worked fine. Thanks for trying!