Hi everyone, I have been reading the Forums for years but this is my first time posting! I wondered if there was any advice anyone can offer about train travel from Milan to Montreux on May 17th.
We are doing a split stay starting in Varenna in Lake Como and then a week in Switzerland with our first stop being Montreux.
It seems like many of the non direct and pretty much all of the direct routes are not currently available on Trenitalia or not available for purchase on SBB on May 17th. I was aware of the service change due to the derailment on the Gotthard line but this specific set “lack of availability” looks to be specific to the week starting on May 17th.
My question is whether this is an anticipatory hold on these days to confirm the schedule due to work on some part of the line (which is what I think I have discovered from SBB although the dates don’t exactly match). Which, might mean that direct trains might be available closer to the date? Or, if this means what we see is what there will likely be, which is fine, but we’d need to adjust our plans a bit to allow for a somewhat later arrival into Montreux…..since the only options seem to be later in the evening.
Anyway, thanks so much for any insight! And, I have benefited from reading comments and questions from others so thank you for that too.