If north-east Switzerland and The Black Forest are on your travel itinerary, you'll have an easy journey on direct, swish trains
Final Destination: Hamburg or Frankfurt (or other)
All of these trains also call at: Basel Bad Bf
These trains will depart from the street level platforms/tracks at Zurich HB - gleis 3 - 18
6 or 7 x ICE trains per day
3 x EC trains per day
The ICE trains are the faster trains.
Book early and save: Yes
Online bookings open: 6 months ahead of the travel date
On the DB Bahn booking site look for journeys that have:
Trains departing at different times can be cheaper than others leaving on the same day, so you may need to look through the day's departures to find the cheapest fares.
Use the earlier/later buttons to search for the cheapest ticket prices.
Seat reservations will automatically be included if you book 1st class tickets on DB.
Ticket Provider | Approximate Cost | |
---|---|---|
DB | from €19.90 | |
Trainline | from €19.90 | |
Save A Train | from €19.90 | |
Happy rail | from €19.90 |
.
These trains also reverse direction on departure from Basel SBB station.
This second version of ShowMeTheJourney is exciting and new, so we are genuinely thrilled that you are here and reading this, but we also need your help.
We’re striving not to let anything get in the way of providing the most useful service possible, hence a facility has been set up with DonorBox which can be used to support the running costs and make improvements.
Instead of advertising or paywalls, your financial support will make a positive difference to delivering an enhanced service, as there’s a lot of ideas which we want to make happen.
So if you have found the info provided here to be useful, please consider saying thank you.
This is one of more than 100 train travel guides available on ShowMeTheJourney, which will make it easier to take the train journeys you want or need to make. As always, all images were captured on trips taken by ShowMeTheJourney.