If you take a train with low-floor boarding, you can also easily board with pushchairs. But what is the safest way to do things if you have to go up a few stairs? Here is a tip from our on-board staff:

• Strap the child in tight and make sure they cannot fall out and cannot throw anything out of the pushchair.
• Turn the pushchair with its handle towards the train. One person gets on first, holds the handle and the second person stays at the bottom and holds onto a horizontal bar by the wheels. Then lift the pushchair together onto the train.
• If you are on your own: ask another passenger or a member of the train crew for help on the platform and then get on the train first and hold the pushchair from the top.
• Tip: choose the smallest possible pushchair to take with you. Ideally one you can fold up.
• What’s more, this tip also works if you have to carry a pushchair up steps.

It is even easier to board if you hold the child in your arms beforehand and fold up the pushchair/buggy.

Parking the pushchair on the train.

• Look out for coaches with folding seats while you are on the platform. You can recognise these coaches by looking for the pushchair symbol on the door and the window sticker in the compartment.
• On trains with family coaches and family zones, there is more space for pushchairs.
• Larger pushchairs stay outside in the vestibule, in the special areas designated for this purpose on the train and by the luggage storage areas.
• Please make sure you do not park the pushchair next to the hooks for bicycles. They are there for hanging up bicycles (self-service loading of bicycles).
• If you have a folding buggy, you can stow it under your seat or between the seats.

If you have luggage, for instance because you are going on holiday or to the airport with your family, then we recommend that you check it in. It costs money and takes a bit longer, but it means that you can concentrate more on the children. And it is easier to board, change and alight. 

If you do still decide to take your luggage with you on the train, then check the occupancy when you choose your train and avoid trains with two or three red bars. Sit downstairs on double-decker trains or choose a family coach. 

You can either load bikes onto the train yourself or check them in as luggage. In this situation too, less is more when travelling as a family. So we recommend that you check in your bikes or rent them at your holiday destination.

Taking your bike with you in Switzerland

Taking your bike with you abroad

Dropping off your bikes

Renting bikes

You can also check in your skiing equipment as luggage. Tip: hire your winter sports equipment. If you buy Snow’n’Rail combined offers, you even receive a discount from Intersport Rent.

Checking in luggage and flight luggage

Snow’n’Rail combined offers

Renting winter sports equipment