SBB January Punctuality Holds, German Arrivals Do Not

BERN - SBB said domestic long-distance punctuality in January remained close to its target of about 90 percent of trains arriving within three minutes. Fog on the plateau caused a cluster of delays between Olten and Zurich in the third week. Those recovered.

The weak point was unchanged: Deutsche Bahn long-distance services into Basel SBB and toward Schaffhausen. Passengers who planned a tight Swiss connection learned, again, to leave a gap.

A border that is also a timetable

Schaffhausen will later ask for late German trains to be cut at Singen. In January that letter was still a complaint in the canteen, not yet a formal request.