Trains
- Scope
- Every railway station
- Transport modes
- S-Bahn, regional and long-distance trains
Platforms, train categories and delays where they are reported. Boards that trains dominate wear the blue station board.
Switzerland coverage guide
Swiss departures on an iPhone widget
PT Widgets turns every stop in Switzerland into a departure board on your iPhone—trains, trams, buses, boats and mountain railways alike. Departures follow the national timetable, with delays wherever they are reported, on displays drawn after the real station boards and city stop signs.
Independent app; not affiliated with the transport operators named on this page.
- Coverage
- Every stop in Switzerland
- Real time
- Timetable + reported delays
- Look-ahead
- Up to 2 hours
Operators & coverage
What the Swiss coverage includes
Switzerland is covered nationwide: every stop in the national timetable is available, from city tram stops to lake piers and mountain stations. Departures follow the timetable, real time is added wherever a delay or cancellation is reported, and notices about disruptions or construction work at the station or on its lines appear on the board.
Trams and buses
- Scope
- Every stop in the national timetable
- Transport modes
- City and regional trams and buses, PostBus included
City stops in Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne and St. Gallen wear their own LED sign, Geneva's a white stop screen.
Boats and mountain railways
- Scope
- Wherever the timetable lists them
- Transport modes
- Lake boats, funiculars and cable cars
Boats and mountain lifts appear like any other departure, so a widget can show the next boat or cable car.
Switzerland coverage guide
Swiss displays, drawn dot by dot
The railway station board
Boards that trains dominate wear a blue station board with category tiles, platforms, remarks and the trilingual heading “Abfahrt Départ Partenza”.
City signs for five networks
Stops of the Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne and St. Gallen city networks wear their own LED signs, drawn dot by dot in the lettering the real signs use. Geneva's city stops get a white stop screen.
Forecast or timetable at a glance
As on the real city signs, a reported time ends in a bold minute mark and a timetable time in a thin one, so you can tell a tracked departure from a planned one.
Picked automatically
PT Widgets picks the sign that fits the departures you see: a board of mostly trains gets the station board, a Zurich tram stop the Zurich sign. With Pro you can choose any design for a station yourself.
Useful Swiss setup choices
Read the timetable mark
Swiss real time arrives as delays for the trips that report one. A departure without a report keeps its timetable time, and a board on which no departure is tracked shows a “Timetable” badge instead of the real-time one.
Filters keep working after the December change
Switzerland changes its timetable every December. A widget filtered to one direction recognises it by the destination shown, so it keeps working in the new timetable year without setting it up again.
Destinations without the town
The city signs leave the stop's own town off a destination, as the real signs do: at a Zurich stop, “Zürich, Bellevue” reads “Bellevue”. VoiceOver still reads the full name.
Switzerland coverage boundaries
- Real time appears only for trips with a reported delay or cancellation; all other departures show their timetable time and are marked as such.
- PT Widgets does not offer line disruption alerts for Switzerland yet; service notices appear on the boards only.
- Stops outside Switzerland are not included, even where Swiss trains or buses serve them, and Liechtenstein's buses are not covered yet.
- The board shows departures up to two hours ahead; it is not a journey planner or a full timetable.
- PT Widgets is independent and not affiliated with any Swiss transport company or with opentransportdata.swiss, whose open data it uses. The designs are PT Widgets' own drawings and carry no operator logos.
Switzerland coverage guide
Set up a Swiss departure widget
Search with the town and the stop name—Swiss stops are named “Town, Stop”—then filter busy interchanges to your lines and directions.
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Save the stop or board in PT Widgets
Search for a station, open its departure board, and add it to your favourites. You can also create a combined board when several nearby stops belong to the same journey.
- 02
Add PT Widgets from the iOS widget gallery
Touch and hold an empty area of the Home Screen, choose Add Widget, search for PT Widgets, pick a size, and place it where it is useful at a glance.
- 03
Choose the source and presentation
Touch and hold the placed widget, choose Edit Widget, then select a fixed favourite or automatic-by-location mode. Filters and display design can be changed per widget.
- 04
Check freshness before relying on a departure
The countdown keeps moving between updates. Refresh when needed and check the real-time or stale-data indicator before leaving.
Real app captures
A look inside the current app
Saved boards, the station monitor and widget management work the same way for Swiss stations; the design follows the station you choose.
Captured from the current app using representative sample departures.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Which Swiss cities are supported?
Coverage is nationwide: every stop in the Swiss national timetable can be searched and saved, from city tram stops to mountain railways and lake boats. Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne and St. Gallen also get their own city display designs.
Does the Swiss widget show delays?
Yes, wherever a delay is reported. The countdown then uses the expected time; a departure without a report keeps its timetable time and is marked as such.
Can I get disruption alerts in Switzerland?
Not yet. Service notices appear on Swiss boards, but line disruption alerts are currently available for Vienna and Linz only.
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