GenevaLunch » CFF http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Several trains, including Geneva-St Gallen line, running late due to lines down http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/17/several-trains-including-geneva-st-gallen-line-running-late-due-to-lines-down/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/17/several-trains-including-geneva-st-gallen-line-running-late-due-to-lines-down/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:44:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65367 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A number of Swiss trains, including Intercity trains between Zurich and Basel and Zurich and Bern, have been running late for most of the day due to a break in the line at Deitikon, in canton Zurich. Trains have had to alternate on the same line in some areas, causing delays of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/17/several-trains-including-geneva-st-gallen-line-running-late-due-to-lines-down/feed/ 0 Weekend snow and winter sports report, 13-15 January 2011 http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/14/weekend-snow-and-winter-sports-report-13-15-january-2011/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/14/weekend-snow-and-winter-sports-report-13-15-january-2011/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:32:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64911 GenevaLunch.com Update, 15 January weather forecast for the week, for skiers: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you’re able to ski during the week, concentrate on getting up to the slopes at the start of this week, with temperatures hovering around zero, some cloudiness mornings but clear skies and sunshine in the afternoons. By late Wednesday some rain [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/14/weekend-snow-and-winter-sports-report-13-15-january-2011/feed/ 0 Two new names for old train stops in Geneva http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/two-new-names-for-old-train-stops-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/two-new-names-for-old-train-stops-in-geneva/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:02:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64447 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Check your train schedules carefully in the next few weeks if you’re used to stopping at either Cointrin or Vernier-Meyrin on the Geneva-La Plaine route, for both are changing their names. The stops’ new names go into effect with the new CFF Swiss rail schedule 11 December. Cointrin will in future be [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/05/two-new-names-for-old-train-stops-in-geneva/feed/ 1 New train schedule offers better links, mobile connections improved http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/18/new-train-schedule-offers-better-links-mobile-connections-improved/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/18/new-train-schedule-offers-better-links-mobile-connections-improved/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:00:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63675 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The 2012 train schedule that goes into effect 11 December will offer travellers better connections for trips abroad. Some parts of the Lake Geneva region will also see improvements. But the best news for many working travellers is that mobile connections are being improved, as is the online sales service. The CFF [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/18/new-train-schedule-offers-better-links-mobile-connections-improved/feed/ 1 Seated bags to require Swiss train tickets http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/seated-bags-to-require-swiss-train-tickets/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/seated-bags-to-require-swiss-train-tickets/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:53:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63396 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Watch where you set your bag on Swiss trains starting 11 December when the new timetable and new rules come into effect. More and more Swiss are taking the train, a mostly good thing, but for anyone traveling with a bag during peak hours, a new rule could be costly: if you [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/09/seated-bags-to-require-swiss-train-tickets/feed/ 1 Swiss train trial for hybrid locomotives succeeds http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/swiss-train-trial-for-hybrid-locomotives-succeeds/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/swiss-train-trial-for-hybrid-locomotives-succeeds/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:03:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62541 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A 4,000 ton annual reduction in CO2 and a significant improvement in maintenance costs: Swiss cargo trains will have 30 hybrid locomotives starting in 2013, the CFF rail company has announced. The new engines are made by Stadler Winterthur, whose director, Hartmut Dietrich, calls them “the most modern and most innovative on the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/18/swiss-train-trial-for-hybrid-locomotives-succeeds/feed/ 1 Train delays, changes Friday after Thursday pm Olten crash http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/train-delays-changes-friday-after-thursday-pm-olten-crash/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/train-delays-changes-friday-after-thursday-pm-olten-crash/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:41:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62194 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – A number of Swiss trains are delayed, cancelled or taking different routes Friday after a Thursday evening sideswipe crash between two trains left one conductor in critical condition. The cause of the crash in Olten, a major centre for Swiss trains, with several intersecting rail lines, is not yet known. One of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/train-delays-changes-friday-after-thursday-pm-olten-crash/feed/ 0 Train ticket man attacked near Lausanne, aggressor flees http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/20/train-ticket-man-attacked-near-lausanne-aggressor-flees/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/20/train-ticket-man-attacked-near-lausanne-aggressor-flees/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:36:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59990 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 32-year-old ticket checker on a CFF train suffered a broken nose and facial lacerations when he was attacked by a man without a valid ticket last Friday, 15 July. His aggressor fled and police, who have a witness, turned the case over to judicial authorities, who have opened a criminal investigation. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/20/train-ticket-man-attacked-near-lausanne-aggressor-flees/feed/ 0 Woman hit by train in Prangins in serious condition http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/15/woman-hit-by-train-in-prangins-in-serious-condition/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/15/woman-hit-by-train-in-prangins-in-serious-condition/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:41:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58850 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police were contacted by people at the old Prangins train station who observed a woman who appeared troubled, hanging around the station at 12:40 Wednesdday 15 June. But the emergency team was unable to save her from being hit by a train. The woman sat down on the edge of the quai [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/15/woman-hit-by-train-in-prangins-in-serious-condition/feed/ 0 Hospital, public transport costs likely to rise significantly http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/04/hospital-public-transport-costs-likely-to-rise-significantly/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/04/hospital-public-transport-costs-likely-to-rise-significantly/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 17:29:28 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57247 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Hospital as well as some train fares in Switzerland are expected to rise significantly in 2012, based on preliminary remarks by a Swiss health organization and the CFF rail company Tuesday 3 May. Santésuisse 3 May announced that it expects to see hospital costs rise by 1.6 percent overall in Switzerland, [...]

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