The final day of the trip began with a run down to Arth-Goldau to leave my case in left-luggage for collection later. Once again there was wrong line running on the Gotthard for much longer than necessary. We changed over immediately after leaving Göschenen but were approaching Gurtnellen before we crossed the first opposing train, a southbound ICN. After a short wait at Gurtnellen for the following EC, we crossed back to the right line to run past the work site. The red Ae6/6 was still parked outside Erstfeld depot but there was no sign of the two green Ae6/6s I’d seen being hauled down the hill yesterday. They must have gone further north. The sun shone all the way to Arth-Goldau but a bank of fog or low cloud was visible a few km to the north. Just as well I wasn’t going there immediately.

From Arth-Goldau I back-tracked to Brunnen and spent the morning photting at Ingenbohl, less than 2km north of the station. As well as the expected passengers there were a few freights as well, all powered by the usual SBB Cargo, DB or Crossrail locos. It was also noticeable that while SBB Cargo and Crossrail trains were still double headed on the gentler grades further north, DB tended to use single locos.

At midday I moved north to Immensee and was pleased to see that the fog or cloud had completely gone. The next few hours were spent walking the trackside path south of Immensee, once I’d found it, photting passengers and the few freights that passed. It was noticeably quieter on the freight front than the previous weekend, probably due to the resumption of normal services via the Simplon Tunnel. As well as the usual Gotthard trains, this section also sees Luzern - Romanshorn “Voralpen Express” services, which I had thought were normally worked by SOB class 456 electrics. However two of the sets in use were powered by SBB Re4/4s, normal practice I’m informed and a nice change to the SOB entries for the World’s Stupidest Locomotive Liveries contest.

There were a couple of unexpected workings in the afternoon. The northbound ETR470 was a complete mystery - could it have been a late running EC16 diverted via Rotkreuz due to pathing problems on the normal single-track route to Zug? It doesn’t seem likely. The other mystery, a southbound ICN set at 15:17, was solved when I got back to Arth-Goldau. It was an ECS move to Göschenen to work relief IR30188 back to Zürich later. This train was worked by a pair of class 540 motor coaches last week. When I saw a similar set parked at Arth-Goldau this morning I assumed they would be used again, clearly not.

I left Immensee at 17:30, by which time the sun was rapidly going behind the mountains, back to Arth-Goldau for the case then on to Zürich on relief IR30188 and finally to the airport for the flight home.

Göschenen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
91-MGB	616	07:48 Andermatt - Göschenen	08:04
460.001	IR2272	06:11 Chiasso - Zürich HB	08:08 (travelled Göschenen to Arth-Goldau)

Schwyz

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
470.xxx	EC153	07:04 Basel SBB - Milano Centrale	08:58

Arth-Goldau

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
540.013 540.031		Stabled	09:05
484.020	EC15	08:31 Zürich HB - Milano Centrale	09:05
523.010	21223	09:02 Baar Lindenpark - Erstfeld	09:25 (travelled Arth-Goldau to Brunnen)

Ingenbohl, N of Brunnen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
185.xxx-XRAIL 185.xxx-XRAIL		NB Intermodal	09:40 (GTS)
460.006	IR2170	07:11 Chiasso - Basel SBB	09:55
500.xxx 500.xxx	ICN665	09:09 Zürich HB - Lugano	10:00
500.031	ICN10012	07:47 Chiasso - Zürich HB	10:02
460.003	IR2165	08:04 Basel SBB - Locarno	10:06
185.138-DB		SB Intermodal	10:11 (GCAtainer)
470.008	EC12	07:10 Milano Centrale - Zürich HB	10:14
11680 410.347		NB Intermodal	10:50 (GTS)
11151	IR2276	08:45 Locarno - Zürich HB	10:57
460.082	IR2267	10:09 Zürich HB - Locarno	11:06
521.030	21230	11:00 Erstfeld - Baar Lindenpark	11:22
11666 11330		NB Intermodal	11:43 (HUPAC)

Brunnen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
521.020	21346	12:08 Brunnen - Luzern	12:00 (travelled Brunnen - Immensee)
470.xxx	EC17	11:09 Zürich HB - Milano Centrale	12:05
460.006	IR2169	10:04 Basel SBB - Locarno	12:09

Immensee

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
186.902-XRAIL 186.906-XRAIL		SB Intermodal	13:00 (CNC)
456.096-SOB	IR2419	12:40 Luzern - Romanshorn	13:02
11345 11682		SB Intermodal	13:13 (DHL + ECS + Hapag)
11668		NB Empty Flats	13:20
521.020	21351	13:06 Luzern - Brunnen	13:31
460.008	IR2173	12:04 Basel SBB - Locarno	13:37
11148 propelling	IR2418	11:34 Romanshorn - Luzern	13:54
185.134-DB 185.100-DB		NB freight	13:58
456.095-SOB	IR2421	13:40 Luzern - Romanshorn	14:03
11152	IR2178	11:45 Locarno - Basel SBB	14:20
521.xxx	21355	14:06 Luzern - Brunnen	14:32
500.xxx 500.xxx	ICN679	13:04 Basel SBB - Lugano	14:40
470.xxx		NB empty stock?	14:42
620.065 11333		NB Intermodal	14:53
456.xxx-SOB propelling	IR2420	12:34 Romanshorn - Luzern	14:55
11148	IR2423	14:40 Luzern - Romanshorn	15:03
500.025		SB empty stock	15:17
521.020	21359	15:06 Luzern - Brunnen	15:32
11197	IR2177	14:04 Basel SBB - Locarno	15:42
456.xxx-SOB propelling	IR2422	13:34 Romanshorn - Luzern	15:57
456.xxx-SOB	IR2425	15:40 Luzern - Romanshorn	16:02
460.003	IR2182	13:45 Locarno - Basel SBB	16:21
523.021	21363	16:06 Luzern - Brunnen	16:31
185.097-DB		SB Freight	16:47
11124 propelling	IR2424	14:34 Romanshorn - Luzern	16:56
456.091-SOB	IR2427	16:40 Luzern - Romanshorn	17:02
521.020	21367	17:06 Luzern - Brunnen	17:29

Arth-Goldau

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
540.031		Stabled	17:40
500.025	IR30188	16:47 Göschenen - Zürich HB	17:45 (travelled Arth-Goldau to Zürich HB)

Zürich HB

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
460.081 propelling	IR2135	17:15 Biel/Bienne - Konstanz	18:37 (travelled Zürich HB to Zürich Fhn)