4 July 2019 at 11:00 (GMT) Download PDF
- Trainline customers can now travel on all Swiss rail carriers, including cross-border to neighbouring countries
- Trainline expands its coverage from 220 to 260 rail and coach carriers across Europe and beyond
London, 4 July, 2019: Trainline, the leading independent rail and coach travel platform, today announces its partnership with Swiss Federal Railways, SBB. The partnership provides Trainline customers with tickets for all Swiss rail carriers, including cross-border journeys to neighbouring countries France, Italy, Germany and Austria.
The partnership gives Trainline customers access to the entire Swiss rail network, with approximately 1,800 stations across the country, including regional carriers and including popular tourist routes such as the Glacier Express, Bernina Express and Gotthard Panorama Express. Customers will be able to purchase Savers, Flexible fares and use their SBB rail card for all SBB routes via Trainline. For the first time, travellers can also plan a single journey combining SBB routeswith rail and coach carriers throughout Continental Europe.
All SBB tickets purchased with Trainline are digital and can be used on customers’ mobiles or printed at home, eliminating the inconvenience of queuing to buy or collect tickets at the station. Alternatively, tickets can also be stored in the Apple Wallet.
This partnership is fantastic for our customers as they can now travel on direct routes into and within Switzerland, as well as combine journeys with tickets from train and coach carriers in the rest of Continental Europe. We have customers in 173 countries and are excited to give them seamless access to SBB’s network, making booking Swiss rail travel easier than ever in their own language and currency, using the same Trainline app that they know and trust.
Daniel Beutler
President of Trainline International
We are delighted to provide Trainline with our new SBB WebService API, an attractive comprehensive platform for the public transport offers in Switzerland. Travelers will thus have easy and quick access to the Swiss railways, which will take them safely, punctually and comfortably to their destination. Thanks to the SBB WebService API, partners such as Trainline will prospectively be able to offer our joint customers an even wider range of services worldwide.
Alberto Bottini
Management Board member of the SBB Passenger Traffic Division, Head of Distribution, Services and Marketing
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About Trainline
Trainline (www.trainline.com) is the leading independent rail and coach travel platform selling rail and coach tickets to millions of travellers worldwide, enabling them to seamlessly search, book and manage their journeys all in one place via its highly rated website and mobile app. Trainline is a one-stop shop for rail and coach travel bringing together millions of routes, fares and journey times from 260 rail and coach carriers across 45 countries.
About SBB
SBB, the Swiss Federal Railways, were founded in 1902 as Switzerland’s national railway company. Today, SBB employs 32,000 people. In addition to passenger transport, which carried an average 1.25 million passengers per day in 2018, cargo rail, with 17 billion net tonne-kilometres a day, is SBB’s second biggest division.