New touristic service on the mountain route.
Along with the new route through the Gotthard Base Tunnel, SBB will also continueto operate the previous mountain route, helping to increase and develop tourism inthe St. Gotthard region. Plans here call for trains to run hourly on the route, which willalso offer connections to long-distance services in Erstfeld, Bellinzona and Lugano.InterRegio trains coming from Basel and Zurich will run until Erstfeld in the future.There will also be new direct connections from the Gotthard region and the Leventinadistrict to Lugano, Mendrisio and Chiasso. On weekends when tourist numbers arehigh, certain InterRegio trains will offer an extended service to G?schenen and thusconnections to the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn running towards Andermatt. BetweenApril and October, an InterRegio train will operate between Zurich and Bellinzona onthe mountain route on weekends and public holidays. This direct connection will offerextremely attractive travel times for cyclists and hikers. A further special service willbe the Gotthard Panorama Express, which will offer passengers interesting presentationson local attractions, regional history and the Gotthard legend from spring to autumn.

SBB Cargo to modernise its range of services.
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel will not only improve passenger services, itwill also result in more train paths for freight services. A total of 160 freight trains cancurrently travel on the Gotthard north–south axis every day, but this number will increaseto 210 on 11 December 2016.

SBB Cargo is also working with customers to modernise its production and range ofservices concept for wagonload freight operations. The company accounts for 25percent of all road/rail transport volume in Switzerland, which means it plays a veryimportant role in the logistics supply chains of Swiss firms. Wagonload freight is andwill remain a strategic core business area, one that will be strengthened for the longterm by two components. First of all, three new processing phases at the marshallingyards will allow today’s capacities to be distributed over 24 hours instead of beingconcentrated in just a few peak periods. This will also enable better use of the railinfrastructure. Secondly, SBB Cargo will launch a booking system for customerswhen the timetable change comes into effect, allowing them to reserve specific collectionand delivery times and receive binding confirmation.