Sat 03 Mar 2012
Sat 03 Mar 2012
14/03/12 11:55
Up at really stupid o’clock to get to Heathrow in time for the 06:00 Swiss flight to Zürich. We were away spot on time but thick fog delayed our arrival by about 15 minutes, miraculous really as I’ve been stranded for days at other airports by fog that wasn’t as bad. Full marks to Zürich, Swiss and ILS.
Runway to platform took a commendable 30 minutes but SBB disappointed by providing a class 514 EMU for the 09:32 S16 train to Zürich HB. The 10:07 additional IC to Chur was also a disappointment. Instead of the anticipated RE4/4ii, there was a very bendy long white plastic thing called 500.032. As tilting trains go it wasn’t bad, being very comfortable and incredibly smooth riding, unlike the dreadful pendolinos.
The first pleasant surprise of the trip came at Landquart where RE1028 arrived from Davos hauled by 616 double-heading 624 instead of running as a Ge4/4iii sandwich. It’s a long time since I’ve seen a passenger hauled from Davos to Landquart. At Chur I bought my Monats BüGA (Graubünden rail and bus pass) for CHF310, slightly more than last year but still miles cheaper than a Swiss Pass. The first haulage of the trip soon followed, behind Ge4/4iii 641, masquerading as a Co-op carrier bag, on RE1137 to St.Moritz. I got off at Filisur and checked into the Hotel Grischuna, conveniently located at the south end of platform 1. One other oddity seen en-route was a Thusis - Chur local formed of motor coach + trailer + motor coach + driving trailer.
The afternoon was spent at the Landwasser Viaduct overlook where the usual procession of Ge4/4iiis was seen. The Schlittelbahn from Preda to Bergün doesn’t seem to be operating and, according to a notice at Filisur Bf, neither are the Schlittelzüge. That would explain the presence of 605, stabled on a push-pull set at Chur GB, and the non-appearance of, 858, the return train to Chur, at the viaduct.
Runway to platform took a commendable 30 minutes but SBB disappointed by providing a class 514 EMU for the 09:32 S16 train to Zürich HB. The 10:07 additional IC to Chur was also a disappointment. Instead of the anticipated RE4/4ii, there was a very bendy long white plastic thing called 500.032. As tilting trains go it wasn’t bad, being very comfortable and incredibly smooth riding, unlike the dreadful pendolinos.
The first pleasant surprise of the trip came at Landquart where RE1028 arrived from Davos hauled by 616 double-heading 624 instead of running as a Ge4/4iii sandwich. It’s a long time since I’ve seen a passenger hauled from Davos to Landquart. At Chur I bought my Monats BüGA (Graubünden rail and bus pass) for CHF310, slightly more than last year but still miles cheaper than a Swiss Pass. The first haulage of the trip soon followed, behind Ge4/4iii 641, masquerading as a Co-op carrier bag, on RE1137 to St.Moritz. I got off at Filisur and checked into the Hotel Grischuna, conveniently located at the south end of platform 1. One other oddity seen en-route was a Thusis - Chur local formed of motor coach + trailer + motor coach + driving trailer.
The afternoon was spent at the Landwasser Viaduct overlook where the usual procession of Ge4/4iiis was seen. The Schlittelbahn from Preda to Bergün doesn’t seem to be operating and, according to a notice at Filisur Bf, neither are the Schlittelzüge. That would explain the presence of 605, stabled on a push-pull set at Chur GB, and the non-appearance of, 858, the return train to Chur, at the viaduct.
Zürich Flughafen
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 514.036 | 19633 | 09:32 Zürich Flughafen - Herrliberg | 09:32 |
Zürich HB
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500.032 | IC10765 | 10:07 Zürich HB - Chur | 10:07 |
Landquart
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 628 | RE1228 | 09:40 Scuol-Tarasp - Disentis/Mustér | 11:10 |
| 3512 3509 |
Stabled | 11:14 | |
| 616 624 |
RE1028 | 10:02 Davos Platz - Landquart | 11:14 |
Chur
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 513 | 1512 | 11:31 Rhäzüns - Schiers | 11:53 |
| 641 | RE1137 | 11:58 Chur - St.Moritz | 11:58 |
Chur GB
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 605 | Stabled | 11:59 |
Domat-Ems
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 650 | RE1132 | 10:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 12:03 |
Ems Werk
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 511 | 1558 | 11:36 Thusis - Chur | 12:07 |
Thusis
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 515 512 |
1560 | 12:36 Thusis - Chur | 12:29 |
| 651 | RE1136 | 11:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 12:35 |
Filisur
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 642 | RE1140 | 12:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 13:05 |
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
| 650 | RE1141 | 12:58 Chur - St.Moritz | 13:58 |
| 649 | RE1144 | 13:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 14:09 |
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
| Ge4/4ii propelling |
1832 | 14:04 Filisur - Davos Platz | 14:11 |
| Loco | Train No. |
Train Details | Notes |
| 651 | RE1145 | 13:58 Chur - St.Moritz | 15:02 |
| 652 | RE1148 | 14:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 15:11 |
| 642 | RE1149 | 14:58 Chur - St.Moritz | 16:04 |
| 641 | RE1152 | 15:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 16:07 |
| 649 | RE1153 | 15:58 Chur - St.Moritz | 17:02 |
| 650 | RE1156 | 16:02 St.Moritz - Chur | 17:08 |
