Bike transport on the train.
Well planned, relaxed travelling.
The routes along the Zentralbahn offer charming landscapes that are ideal for exploring by bike. To ensure smooth transport, it is important to plan your journey by bike carefully.
The routes along the Zentralbahn offer charming landscapes that are ideal for exploring by bike. To ensure smooth transport, it is important to plan your journey by bike carefully.
Plan your bike transport
To be able to take a bike with you, you must be able to load and unload it independently and place it in the holders provided.
Please note the following information:
- Self-loading of bikes applies on all Zentralbahn lines. No bicycle reservations can be made.
- Depending on the volume of traffic, especially in good weather, there may be bottlenecks in transport capacity for self-loading bikes on certain routes.
- Special bikes that are longer than 2 metres - i.e. tandems, recumbent bikes and cargo bikes - can only be transported if there is sufficient space. Transport is not guaranteed.
- Vehicles with combustion engines (e.g. mopeds), tricycle tandems, multi-seater recumbent bicycles, personal transporters (e.g. segways) and electric scooters are excluded from transport.
- For safety reasons and due to the door dimensions of most trains, bicycle trailers may only be transported with a maximum width of 80 cm.
Bike tickets
If you want to take your bike with you on Zentralbahn trains, you can buy one of the tickets listed here. For all other routes, the regulations of the respective transport companies apply.
- Reduced-fee bike route ticket: For short distances, you can buy a bike route ticket for your bike.
- Bike day pass: For longer journeys, buy a bike day pass for CHF 15.00 This is also available as a bike multi-day pass for 6 freely selectable days for CHF 90.00.
- Bike Pass: If you regularly travel by bike, the Bike Pass is a practical solution for CHF 260.00 per year. It is integrated into your SwissPass.
The range of tickets for bicycles is available on the SBB website, in the SBB Mobile App, at the Zentralbahn travel centre or from Zentralbahn Railservice on +41 58 668 68 00.
Bike as hand luggage
The following types of bike do not require a ticket:
- Foldable folding bikes
- Bike trailer
- Bikes of children under 6 years and children between 6 and 15 years with a junior card
- Shopping trolley (also with bike coupling)
- E-scooters with a maximum wheel diameter of 30cm (or smaller than 12 inches)
- Bicycles packed in carrier bag with front wheel removed