Do slow trains bore you? Do you like to fly past cars, steel on steel, connecting two big cities faster than any other form of transportation? But you also enjoy the views of Switzerland? Then you're probably right here. ;-)
What you'll see here is the highest regular speed in Switzerland. Why is our top speed "only" 200km/h? Many other railways try to make their trains as fast as possible, while in Switzerland, they go as fast as necessary. The goal behind the integrated schedule in Switzerland is to reduce overall travel time and allow for good connetions in all possible directions, not just raw speed. The NBS (Neubaustrecke, new HSL line Mattstetten - Rothrist, more Info will be displayed during the video) was built so the travel time is reduced under one hour, allowing for perfect connections on the trains that depart hourly or half-hourly. After all, 200km/h is definitely not slow. These speeds with up to 1000 tonnes of steel in the back is still very impressive, even by todays standards.
Today's journey starts in Bern and and soon after departure, our train will already reach the maximum non-ETCS network speed of 160km/h in the Grauholztunnel. Right after the tunnel, the ETCS-equpped NBS starts, allowing for 200km/h, which we will experience up until a few kilometers before Rothrist, the end of the NBS. The rest of our trip to Zurich is mostly in areas between 125 and 140km/h, still far from slow speeds.
Locomotive: SLM Re 460
Train stops at:
Bern
Zurich Main Station
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