A surprisingly good day despite a generally poor weather forecast. The cloud appeared to be thinnest over the mountains so I headed for the highest point I could find, Oberalppass on the MGB. It wasn’t the right place to be, with cloud spilling over the mountains from the Graubünden side. A little further down the valley was in sun though and the morning was spent walking down the hill to Andermatt photographing trains on the way.

The most interesting working was FO 36 on a set of four RhB Pullmans, labelled as a Zermatt - St.Moritz private charter, which must have overnighted in Andermatt as the stock was stabled there when I changed trains. Unfortunately it passed when I was halfway along the avalanche shelter, so I didn’t get a picture. Photography was also hampered by the random formations in use on the local passengers. Trains could have the motor coach on the front, in the middle or at the back and there didn’t seem to be much of a pattern to what turned up. I was glad when the eastbound Glaciers started running as they had to have the loco at the front. Apart from train 820, which I travelled on from Andermatt to Oberalppass, all the local passengers seen were powered by motor coaches, with the Glaciers all loco hauled, not that there’s much difference between an MGB motor coach and a loco anyway.

Once the eastbound Glaciers had passed, I took a train out to Hospental on the Brig line to photograph the westbounds. The weather there wasn’t as reliable and only after three Glaciers had passed in poor light, was I rewarded by getting the fourth in full sun. Even that was a fluke, the sun was only out because the train had been held at Hospental for several minutes waiting for an unscheduled eastbound ECS move. The cloud was filling in rapidly by then, so I called it a day at that point and returned to Göschenen well satisfied with the days haul of pictures.

There were bus substitutions between Andermatt and Oberalppass from 16:00 onwards, due to engineering work around Nätschen that’s due to continue for the next couple of weeks.

Göschenen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
11342 620.075		SB Intermodal	08:05
52-MGB	523	08:12 Göschenen - Visp	08:12 (travelled Göschenen to Andermatt)

Andermatt

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
53-MGB	618	08:28 Andermatt - Göschenen	08:22
104-MGB	820	08:27 Andermatt - Disentis/Mustér	08:27 (travelled Andermatt to Oberalppass)

Oberalppass

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
91-MGB propelling	819	08:14 Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt	08:53

W of Oberalppass

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
36-FO		Zermatt - St.Moritz Charter	09:14 (RhB Pullmans)
91-MGB	824	09:27 Andermatt - Disentis/Mustér	09:45
22-MGB	823	09:14 Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt	09:59

E of Nätschen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
22-MGB propelling	828	10:27 Andermatt - Disentis/Mustér	10:44
24-MGB	827	10:14 Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt	11:00

E of Andermatt

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
55	832	11:27 Andermatt - Disentis/Mustér	11:36
102-MGB	902	08:52 Zermatt - Davos Platz	12:01
91-MGB mid train	831	11:14 Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt	12:16
4-MGB	904	09:13 Zermatt - St.Moritz	12:33
91-MGB	836	12:27 Andermatt - Disentis/Mustér	12:38
106-MGB	906	09:52 Zermatt - St.Moritz	12:58
103-MGB	908	09:59 Zermatt - St.Moritz	13:21

Andermatt

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
96-MGB mid train	543	13:12 Göschenen - Visp	13:28
52	538	11:08 Visp - Göschenen	13:28

W of Hospental

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
93-MGB	542	12:08 Visp - Göschenen	14:12
108-MGB	905	09:15 St.Moritz - Zermatt	14:17
104-MGB	907	09:15 St.Moritz - Zermatt	14:23
52	547	14:12 Göschenen - Visp	14:46
53-MGB	546	13:08 Visp - Göschenen	15:13
102-MGB	909	10:02 St.Moritz - Zermatt	15:18
92-MGB		EB Empty Stock	15:29
4-MGB	911	10:41 Davos Platz - Zermatt	15:34
93-MGB mid train	551	15:12 Göschenen - Visp	15:45

Hospental

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
51-MGB	550	14:08 Visp - Göschenen	16:13 (travelled Hospental to Andermatt)

Andermatt

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
53-MGB	652	16:48 Andermatt - Göschenen	16:48 (travelled Andermatt to Göschenen)

Göschenen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
485.014-BLS 485.016-BLS		SB Steel Pipes	17:06
460.072	IR2188	15:45 Locarno - Basel SBB	17:09