IC1/IC5, direct, up to 6x/hour combining IC, IR and RE tiers
SBB InterCity
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IC1/IC5, direct, up to 6x/hour combining IC, IR and RE tiers
SBB InterCity
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The parts people get wrong. Each one links to where we checked it.
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The Lausanne-Geneva railway is confirmed as a double-track main line carrying Geneva's approach to the Bern/Zürich and Simplon corridors; independent snapshots show up to six trains an hour mixing IC (33 min fastest), IR (about 40 min) and RE (about 49 min) tiers on the same double track.
en.wikipedia.org · checked 2026-09-09
Easy to get wrong
The three service tiers sharing this line have noticeably different journey times for the same city pair - a traveller who books the first departure without checking whether it is IC, IR or RE can end up 15+ minutes slower than necessary.
thetrainline.com · checked 2026-09-09