GoldenPass Express

GoldenPass Express

The GoldenPass Express undergoing testing at Zweisimmen in August 2022
Overview
First service	11 December 2022 (2022-12-11)
Current operator(s)	MOB (Montreaux - Zweisimmen) BLS (Zweisimmen - Interlaken Ost)
Route
Termini	Montreux Interlaken Ost
Stops	7
Average journey time	3 hours 15 minutes
Service frequency	Daily
Line(s) used	Montreux–Lenk im Simmental Spiez–Zweisimmen Lake Thun
Technical
Track owner(s)	Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway BLS AG
Route map Legend 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 Regional services to Lauterbrunnen Zentralbahn to Lucerne This diagram: view talk edit

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+3⁄8 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+1⁄2 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.