lewispratt
Traveller
16 comments
Posted 13 years ago
hey there!
i'm headign to Zurich tommorrow and was originally planning on taking the route stated here : [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/milan-to-zurich[/u]
however in my rail timetable it has a route from Milano centrale straight to Zurich rather than making changes at Monza and Chiasso. The type of train is EC and it has a half filled square above the coloumn signifying that a suppliment is payable in Italy and for international journeys, however it is the same train that i would be catching if i travelled to Chiasso first. Sorry if thats confusing but i was wondering if i could just jump on this one with no extra fees rather than making a few changes?
thanks for any advice you can give!
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi!
Well, as it is shown in the Thomas Cook timetable a 10€ reservation is needed for international travel and travel within Italy on this EC (in fact on all EC Italy <> Switzerland). That's why I suggested the route with changes in Monza and Chiasso since from Chiasso you can use that EC without paying extra since Chiasso is the Swiss/Italian border station > no international travel. :)
Flo 8)
PS: Calculate with some delay in Zürich since the EMUs used on this route are often suffering from technical failure.
lewispratt
Traveller
16 comments
cheers Flow
after looking and realising where Chiasso was i though that might have been the case!
so i'm just going to get the route you suggested rather than the international one as i'm trying to do as many trips without paying extra!
thanks very much
lewis
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Yup, no problem. :)
In case the EC is already delayed when you change in Chiasso, you could also go with a regional train onwards to Bellinzona and change there to a IR to Zürich. This is a little bit slower than with the direct EC, but as I said they are likely to be delayed an on an IR you wont have troubles getting a free seat - which could happen sometimes on the EC.
lewispratt
Traveller
16 comments
Just for future reference, when a train has EC but says nothing anywhere else about having to pay a reservation (like the case of the train directly from Milan to Zurich) but is still an international journey, is it safe to assume that it's possible to board freely??
For example, a route such as Zurich-Munich is served by an EC train but says nothing else about supplements or reservations
Cheers
Lewis
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi Lewis,
yes, in general EC are free of extra fees. If there are any we mentioned it in the reservation and supplement section on railcc.
The only EC I can think of that require a reservation are:
- EC to/from Poland
- Italy <> Switzerland (Milano - Geneve/Basel/Zürich)
- Italy <> Austria - Germany (Milano/Bologna/Venezia - Verona - Innsbruck - München)
- Paris - Milano; those are TGV Artesia and only sometimes reffered to as EC
Flo 8)
Pietia_pl
Traveller
8 comments
hey
I tried to find this connection : [u]https://rail.cc/en/train/milan-to-zurich[/u]
on the [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] travel planner but I couldn't find it.
No matter how I look for it only shows me this connection:
Milano Porta Garibaldi dep. 9.38
Chiasso arr. 10.43 dep. 11.52
Zürich HB arr. 14.51
Where the first connection is operated by S-bahn (as listed on [ux]https://rail.shop/bahn[/ux] timetable), and the second is EC train.
Do you know if I can use my interrail pass on that S- bahn ?
Hetman
Traveller
364 comments
yes, you do. it's normal regional train operated by trenitalia