This year’s timetable change will take place on 13 December 2020. Find out which improvements to our service offer are being introduced this year.

You can find maps of the current SBB long-distance service network here in PDF format.

The following projects will be completed as part of the first expansion step (STEP AS 2025):

• Zurich–Lugano, Lugano–Locarno, Bern–Lucerne and Zurich–Chur services to run every half hour.
• Aarau–Zurich S-Bahn services to run every half hour.
• Bern–Lausanne journey time reduction.
• Prerequisite steps for improving the S-Bahn service offer in the Bern, Basel and Geneva regions.
• Basel–Liestal (Pratteln) and Bern–Münsingen S-Bahn services to run every quarter of an hour throughout the day.
• Sustainable rail operations using energy from 100% renewable sources.

The following projects will be completed as part of the first expansion step (STEP AS 2035):

• Almost all long-distance services will run every half hour in the future.
• Long-distance services in high demand will run every quarter of an hour in the future (including Geneva–Lausanne, Fribourg–Bern, Bern–Zurich, Rotkreuz–Baar–Zurich, Zurich–Winterthur–Frauenfeld and Aarau–Lenzburg–Zurich).
• Increased capacity of up to 40% on some routes.
• Reduced journey times thanks to construction projects like the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel II and the Brüttener Tunnel, as well as through the expansion of services such as the Neuchâtel–La-Chaux-de-Fonds direct line.
• More direct connections to Geneva Airport, Zurich Airport and EuroAirport Basel.

SBB stations invigorate regions, cities and neighbourhoods. The following project are planned up to 2025 along the east-west axis:

• Zurich: Switzerland’s largest city will become even more cosmopolitan with Europaallee, Gleistribüne, Franklinturm and Letziturm.
• Bern: SBB is building a second underground passage between the existing station underpass and the Welle, with access from Länggasse and Bubenbergplatz.
• Renens: in the west of Lausanne, new lively districts are being created through the Quai Ouest, Parc du Simplon and Central Malley projects – and SBB is actively shaping it.
• Morges: the “Quartier des Halles”, a new district with more than a thousand residents, is being built to the south of the station.
• Geneva: Eaux-Vives, Lancy-Pont-Rouge and Chêne-Bourg are Léman Express stations, around which dynamic centres are developing.