GoldenPass Express

The GoldenPass Express is a luxury railway service that operates between Montreux, on Lake Geneva, and Interlaken, in the Bernese Oberland, in Switzerland. The train is owned and operated jointly by the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) and BLS AG (BLS). As such, it uses the MOB's 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) gauge line between Montreux and Zweisimmen. In Zweisimmen, the train cars change gauges in order to operate on BLS' 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) gauge lines from Zweisimmen to Spiez and then from Spiez to Interlaken. The automated gauge conversion, which adjusts both the track gauge and the height of the car body (to account for differences in platform heights), is believed to the first of its kind in the world.

GoldenPass Express
The GoldenPass Express undergoing testing at Zweisimmen in August 2022
Overview
First service11 December 2022 (2022-12-11)
Current operator(s)MOB (Montreaux - Zweisimmen)
BLS (Zweisimmen - Interlaken Ost)
Route
TerminiMontreux
Interlaken Ost
Stops7
Average journey time3 hours 15 minutes
Service frequencyDaily
Line(s) used
  • Montreux–Lenk im Simmental
  • Spiez–Zweisimmen
  • Lake Thun
Technical
Track owner(s)
  • Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway
  • BLS AG
Route map
to Lausanne
0.0
Montreux
to Brig
Regional services to Rochers de Naye
S50 to Palézieux
22.1
Montbovon
S50
32.7
Château-d'Œx
45.8
Gstaad
Regional services to Lenk im Simmental
62.4
34.9
Zweisimmen
to Thun
0.0
9.8
Spiez
to Brig
28.0
Interlaken Ost
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