If you are planning to travel to Milan from Swiss cities of Basel and Geneva, expect your journey to be disrupted.
Due to work on railroad tracks, no trains will run between Italian cities of Domodossola and Milan, Switzerland’s national rail company, SBB, said on April 22nd.
Therefore, EuroCity (EC) trains will not run between the two cities from June 8th until July 27th, and from August 30th until September 13th.
This will affect the Basel–Bern–Milan and Geneva–Lausanne-Brig–Milan lines.
Trenitalia will provide replacement buses between Domodossola and Milan. However, they will have a limited capacity and the travel time will be at least one hour longer than by train.
Delayed transfer
From Mondays to Fridays, one EC train in each direction to and from Basel, and one train to and from Geneva will run only to Domodossola.
Services remain unchanged on weekends, with four Eurocity trains on these two lines.
SBB and Trenitalia will offer additional replacement buses between Geneva and Milan, with an intermediate stop in Martigny (VS). They plan two daily connections in June and September, and three in July.
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According to the SBB, services on the Simplon axis will be reduced “for several years, at least until summer 2027”.
As a reminder, work that is under way in the Simplon Tunnel is impacting the train schedule between Brig and the Italian city of Iselle.
