[Mbryant1800]

25 March 2019 at 3:48:34 #820590

We are leaving Milan towards Chur to catch the Glacier Express. We got to Milan using the Bernina Express sand we want another route. I was considering Milan to Locarno or Lugano then Bellinzona to Chur. We are spending the night in Chur on July 4th, to board the Glacier Express on July 5th towards Zermatt. The swiss -postauto bus does not give me any routes to get there. Can you please give me advice on how we can travel? We are 3 and we already got our Swiss Flexi Pass this week.

Thank You Myrna

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[rockoyster]

25 March 2019 at 4:06:02 #907543

Hello Myrna,

If you are happy to travel by bus the attached timetable extract might help.

If you rule out the BEX route then the only “sensible” rail-only way I can think of is to follow the Gotthard Panorama Express (http://www.myswissalps.com/go tthardpanoramaexpress) route to Andermatt then via Disentis to Chur but this will double up on the Oberalp Pass you will travel on the Glacier Express the next day.

Another hybrid option would be the Palm Express bus from Lugano to St Moritz then regular trains heading via Zernez to Landquart and on to Chur to give you a different route to the BEX. Problem with that is the single daily Palm Express doesn’t get to St Moritz until around 7:00pm so probably not viable for you.Palm Express avos up to Landquart and on to Chur.

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[Mbryant1800]

27 March 2019 at 2:43:17 #907544

to Rocky, Thank You for your response,

I did find out from Postauto that their schedule for July doesn’t get posted until May. We will do the bus route from Bellinzona to Chur since it is the most direct.I am sure I will have more questions as the time approaches.

Thank you for your prompt responses and help.

Myrna

[Removed user]

28 March 2019 at 0:52:10 #907545

Bellinzona – Thusis (or Chur) by the bus over the San Bernardino route is nice and scenic.

There are some slower buses that don’t require reservations:

http://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/ fileadmin/fap_pdf_fiel ds/2019/62.214.pdf

Trivia: the RhB railway planned a railway that way but the First World War broke out and the railway was never built (except Mesocco – Bellinzona that is now closed)

[Arno]

28 March 2019 at 16:33:43 #907546

That’s interesting 1960man, what a great railway that would have been, connecting the Ticino to Graubünden!

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29 March 2019 at 0:48:58 #907547

Don’t forget that the Misox valley is still Graubünden a lot of the way to Bellinzona, even though it is on the ‘south’ side of the San Bernardino, that’s why the railway was proposed in the first pace.

I ran as a tourist railway for some years but sadly and controversially the local region would not fund provision for it to survive – and funded road improvement instead