A very early start got me to Heathrow in time to catch the 06:00 Swiss flight to Zürich. We touched down at Zürich bang on the scheduled arrival time of 08:40 and exactly 30 minutes later I was sitting on a train leaving Zürich Flughafen for Zürich HB having passed through immigration, collected my luggage and bought a ticket. Even in Switzerland it isn’t usually this good. Before leaving home I’d thought the chances of catching the 09:37 from Zürich HB to Chur were very slim but I made it with time to spare. Arrival at Chur was one minute early at 10:51 but again there was a race against time to get my BÜGA ticket issued and still make the 10:58 departure to Filisur. The clock showed 10:57:45 when I hit the platform and as soon as I was on board, we were off. I’d expected to arrive at Filisur at 14:00, or 13:00 if I was really lucky, but actually got there at 12:00. The afternoon was spent at the Landwasser Viaduct overlook until the hazy sun gave up trying around 15:00, at which point, so did I.

Trains seen were very much as expected with solid Ge4/4iiis on the Chur - St. Moritz trains (641, 643, 647, 648, 649, 652) and two Ge4/4iii (642, 651) on the Landquart - Davos - Filisur trains along with three ABe8/12s (3506, 3510, 35xx). The only surprise was that 642 was on one of the duties booked for a unit and a unit was on one of the duties booked for a loco. Something to watch in future.

A more pleasant surprise was getting double Ge4/4is (607, 608) on freight 5152, which is booked for a single Ge4/4i. Both locos were working. Several other freights were seen during the day, all with the booked Ge6/6iis but only 705 (on 5135) was positively identified. Ge4/4i 603 was seen light engine at Chur at 11:58, presumably getting ready to work the westbound Glacier Express to Disentis as booked.

The highest numbered ABe8/12 seen was 3512. As 12 units are required to work the service from 7 March, it looks like the Ge4/4is will probably lose all their booked work from that date.

Full details of the locos seen are listed below.

Zürich Flughafen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
460.030	IR2116	08:03 Konstanz - Biel/Bienne	09:10

Zürich HB

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
460.107	IC565	08:33 Basel SBB - Chur	09:37

Landquart

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
617	RE1233	08:45 Disentis/Muster - Scuol-Tarasp	10:40
3510	RE1033	10:47 Landquart - Davos Platz	10:40
515 3508 3512		Stabled	10:40

Chur

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
649	RE1133	10:58 Chur - St. Moritz	10:58

Chur West

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
648	RE1128	09:02 St. Moritz - Chur	11:00

Thusis

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
516	1558	11:36 Thusis - Chur	11:27
652	RE1132	10:02 St. Moritz - Chur	11:29

Filisur

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
647	RE1136	11:02 St. Moritz - Chur	12:00
642 propelling	1824	12:04 Filisur - Davos Platz	12:00

Landwasser Viaduct, N of Filisur

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
648	RE1137	11:58 Chur - St. Moritz	12:57
641	RE1140	12:02 St. Moritz - Chur	13:02
705	5135	10:40 Landquart - Pontresina Freight	13:38
652	RE1141	12:58 Chur - St. Moritz	13:57
643	RE1144	13:02 St. Moritz - Chur	14:02
607 608	5152	13:28 Samedan - Landquart Freight	14:28

Filisur

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
647	RE11:45	13:58 Chur - St. Moritz	14:59
649	RE1148	14:02 St. Moritz - Chur	15:00
651 propelling	1836	15:04 Filisur - Davos Platz	15:04
648	RE1152	15:02 St. Moritz - Chur	16:00
641	RE1149	14:58 Chur - St. Moritz	16:01
3506	1840	16:04 Filisur - Davos Platz	16:04
642 propelling	1844	17:04 Filisur - Davos Platz	16:59
641	RE1153	15:58 Chur - St. Moritz	17:00
652	RE1156	16:02 St. Moritz - Chur	17:02