Swiss railways keep breaking passenger traffic records

Passengers are flocking to the Swiss railways. After setting a record in the first quarter, the railways also achieved a new second-quarter record in 2024. Between April and June, they recorded 5.78 billion passenger-kilometres. +Sign up to get the most important news from Switzerland directly in your inbox This represents a growth of 2.5% compared to the same quarter of the previous year, as announced by the Association of Public Transport (APT) on Tuesday. In addition to equalling the record for a second quarter, the railways also recorded the second-highest passenger-kilometres ever measured in their history. The record is held by the third quarter of 2023 with 5.79 billion passenger-kilometres. With an increase of 1.4% to 2.41 million train-path kilometres, train performance has broken the record set in the first quarter of 2024. The APT has identified the summer holiday season as the reason for the new records. Rail freight transport, on the other hand, continued to weaken.