Luggage on Swiss Trains with Travel Pass

Is there regular luggage service available from station to station as well, so that we don't need to lug our luggage on and off the train?

https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/luggage/luggage/station-to-station.html

Have you seen this official page::?-

https://www.sbb.ch/en/station-services/services/luggage/luggage.html

Those are your choices.

when I go to Europe I use trains a lot, thus I travel pretty light. I usually have a small back pack and a small, carry on rolling suitcase. I carried them all on to the Swiss trains where there was overhead storage. Sometimes when the trains were fairly empty we just left them on the floor next to us. However, on the scenic route, the conductors seemed to like them placed overhead.

Thank you very much for your help. Safe travels.

So station to station is cheaper, but takes two days. Door to door is faster, next day (or same day with express), but more costly. The railroads do not have a system for timely luggage handling like the airlines do. It's always been that way. When I went by train to/from college in this country in the 60s, the railroads shipped my trunks station-to-station with 3rd day pickups.

It's kind of a vicious cycle. The railroads don't bother to have a timely station-to-station system because everyone carries on their own luggage, but everyone carries on their on luggage because the railroads don't have a timely station-to-station system. But checking luggage with airlines requires one to be at the airport an hour or two before flight time. How many people get to the train station an hour early.

If SBB had a system to check a bag through, station-to-station, and have it at the arrival station for you to pickup when you get there, but they charged the equivalent of $25 (like US airlines), and you had to check it an hour before train time, how many people would use it?

And luggage service would probably only be to major stations (like station-station luggage service is now). Switzerland probably has over 800 stations, some hardly more than bus stops, compared to less than 400 airports with scheduled airline service in the entire US.

I'm having trouble getting a clear picture of door pickup and/or delivery charges. I think door-door is a flat rate of 40CHF plus 12CHF per item (76CHF for 3 items) rather than 12CHF per item or 40CHF for all your items. ?

We just returned from a 3 week trip in Europe and had an 8 day Swiss Travel Pass, 2nd class. We each had a 21" rolling bag and small backpack. We had no trouble getting our bags on and off the trains, or storing them en route. It is a lot easier having your bags with you than worrying whether or not your bags have arrived. Did we were the same clothes a lot? Sure, but a quick wash in the sink took care of of some of that.

The options changed on June 5 of this year. That's when the same-day version of station-to-station luggage service was discontinued. The hotel to hotel version is only a bit more expensive.

Lee's estimate is too low. There are 1838 stations in Switzerland, and I guess over 50% are unmanned.
No way could they load and unload luggage at each station. That would require a set-aside luggage compartment on each train, someone on each train to handle it, and someone at each station (possibly one per platform) to load and unload. Plus staff to man the check-in and retrieval desk.
And 4-5 minutes at each station to load and unload luggage. that would totally slow down all the trains.

It's kind of a vicious cycle. The railroads don't bother to have a timely station-to-station system because everyone carries on their own luggage, but everyone carries on their on luggage because the railroads don't have a timely station-to-station system. But checking luggage with airlines requires one to be at the airport an hour or two before flight time. How many people get to the train station an hour early.

I would call that a virtuous circle. Because everybody carries their own luggage; time is saved at stations, trains run faster, the use of the network is more efficient, space is saved on trains, no on-train luggage person is needed and station staff are saved, all saving major cost for the traveller.

AFAIK THere is no rail company in Europe that offers a service where you can check-in luggage which travels on the same train as you do.

Lee's estimate is too low.

Thanks. It was only an estimate. I could not find the actual number; that's why I said "probably". I do know that Germany has over 5000 stations and more than eight time as many km of track as Switzerland, so I proportioned it.

Wow, if Switzerland has 4876 km of track (that's just the length of the network, regardless of single or double track) and 1838 stations, that's a station every 2.65 km (1.65 mile)! Switzerland has about 40,000 sq km of land area. That means one station for every 22 sq km (8½ sq miles). You can't ever be very far from a station in Switzerland.