Trains and other things: S. Margherita L. Portofino, Camogli, Lavagna

Monday, July 20, 2020

S. Margherita L. Portofino, Camogli, Lavagna

The night train trip from Hamburg to Zurich went fine, and when I wake up I'm close to Swetzerland.

Breakfast is served

Double deck Schlafwagen is used on the route Hamburg-Zurich.

I need to catch an early train from Zurich to Milano, so I'm not continuing with the night train all the way to Zurich, instead, I will switch trains here at Basel station.

An intercity train to Zurich will be a much faster choice. As I am using Interrail, it does not cost anything extra to take this train instead.

SBB RABe 502, Bombardier Twindexx

From Zurich, I was supposed to take a comfortable Eurocity train directly to Milano. Instead, I had to take 3 different trains where the first one was a simple S-Bahn train to Zug.

At Zug station, the passengers had to switch to another train

It was unclear why this train could not have been traveling all the way from Zurich, most probably it was late from Italy, and the Swiss railway company had to make this solution.

Later on at Lugano station, the passengers had to change trains again, this time to an identical one. The only difference between the trains was that the one from Zug to Lugano was numbered 503 021 (2nd series and owned by SBB), while the train from Lugano to Milano was numbered 610 010 (1st series).