Scenic route
Treno Gottardo
Zürich → Locarno · Switzerland
Treno Gottardo in pictures
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- Distance
- 200 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 52 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SOB
- Train
- SOB Traverso (IR46)
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 2020
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The everyday Gotthard panorama train: hourly IRs over the 1882 mountain line’s spiral tunnels, no surcharge, from Basel or Zürich to Locarno’s palms.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7787433 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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