GenevaLunch » CFF http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Park and ride for easy commutehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/park-and-ride-for-easy-commute/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/park-and-ride-for-easy-commute/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 08:27:09 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=69608 GenevaLunch.com If you commute or travel by train but need to drive to the station, chances are you can park for free or reserve a parking spot through the Park+Rail programme of Swiss rail company CFF. Check their website, in English, and enter your station to see what your options are. Unfortunately, not all stations are [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/park-and-ride-for-easy-commute/feed/ 0 Disrupted weekend train service for Geneva 20-22 Aprilhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/disrupted-weekend-train-service-for-geneva-20-22-april/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/disrupted-weekend-train-service-for-geneva-20-22-april/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:04:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69111 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The major overhaul of the Geneva train stations and its tracks, a three-year project, will have an impact on traffic this coming weekend, 20-22 April. The CFF rail company’s list of changes, which go into effect Friday at 21:50: ICN (intercity) trains cancelled between Geneva airport and Nyon: travelers should take the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/17/disrupted-weekend-train-service-for-geneva-20-22-april/feed/ 0 Extra trains, seats to handle Switzerland’s Easter weekend travellershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/04/extra-trains-seats-to-handle-switzerlands-easter-weekend-travellers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/04/extra-trains-seats-to-handle-switzerlands-easter-weekend-travellers/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:09:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68664 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The CFF is putting on 13 extra trains and adding cars to a number of trains between Thursday 5 April and Monday 9 April to handle the long Easter weekend traffic. The additions will create some 30,000 extra seats, with the CFF noting that it wants to encourage travelers to avoid clogging [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/04/extra-trains-seats-to-handle-switzerlands-easter-weekend-travellers/feed/ 0 Get long trains and you have to get long buildings, Zurich learnshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/20/get-long-trains-and-you-have-to-get-long-buildings-zurich-learns/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/20/get-long-trains-and-you-have-to-get-long-buildings-zurich-learns/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:51:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68002 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The first shovel of dirt was lifted 16 March for the new Herdern train storage shed in Zurich, a visible sign of how growing rail traffic is affecting Switzerland. The CFF rail company today carries 40 percent more passengers than in 2004 and one of the solutions to handle the continual growth [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/20/get-long-trains-and-you-have-to-get-long-buildings-zurich-learns/feed/ 0 Several trains, including Geneva-St Gallen line, running late due to lines downhttp://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 2011http://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 Genevahttp://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 improvedhttp://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 ticketshttp://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 succeedshttp://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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