Swiss Federal Railways, SBB, will expand several international rail links from the December 2026 timetable change, including more direct services to Italy and a restored third daily TGV to Paris from April 2027.
The SBB confirmed via an announcement on 21 May 2026 that the changes are part of the timetable draft for 2027, which is now open for public consultation.
The biggest Italy-related change is on the Zurich-Venice axis.
SBB plans to run two direct trains per day in each direction between Zurich and Venice, after extending one existing service that currently ends in Lugano. To make that possible, the daytime Basel-Luzern-Milan service will now terminate in Lugano because there is not enough track capacity for the full route.
The direct Zurich-Florence train will also be shortened to Bologna, though it will continue to Rimini during the summer season.
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On the French side, SBB says it will bring back three daily direct TGV services each way between Lausanne, Geneva and Paris from 5 April 2027. One of the new trains will run daily on weekdays, while two will operate in each direction at weekends.
The timetable draft also keeps the existing national and international night-train expansion on the agenda, including the planned use of new-generation Nightjets on the Zurich-Amsterdam route.
The Germany corridor is set for a smaller but still important adjustment. SBB says Zurich-Stuttgart IC trains will receive more time buffer on the German section to improve punctuality. That is a technical change rather than a headline route expansion, but it matters for one of the busiest cross-border links from Switzerland.
