Easter Trains Fill as SBB Warns of Alpine Road Queues

BERN - SBB added carriages on routes toward Ticino, Valais and the Grisons for the Easter peak. The railway asked passengers to reserve seats on the busiest InterCity trains. Police, for their part, expected the usual Friday crawl toward the Gotthard road tunnel.

Weather in the high valleys was mixed: rain on the approaches, snow still on some passes. That combination fills trains with people who would rather not drive and fills car parks at the last open pass.

A system that still works, mostly

Delays on German connections into Basel remained the weak point. Domestic punctuality held. For a later look at how SBB tries to stop foreign delays at the border, see our Schaffhausen report.