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    Thurbo – “Die Regionalbahn”. From Konstanz to St Gallen



    Thurbo – “Die Regionalbahn”. From Konstanz to St Gallen

    It’s time for a short hop from Konstanz (DE) to St Gallen (CH) on a rather wet Monday morning in March. But the fun part is that we’ll get to try out the area’s local trains that are provided by Thurbo “Die Regionalbahn”.

    Thurbo is operated by SBB, with support from the local canton government of Thurgau (hence the name). The service is provided by a fleet of Stadler GTW EMUs in a rather fetching white livery and so we get the chance to give one of them a go.

    Departure: Konstanz, Germany
    Destination: St Gallen, Switzerland
    Distance: 36 km / 22 miles
    Duration: 35 mins
    Average speed: 62 km/h 44 mph

    Example cost: Adult advance single booked from the UK on TrainLine
    1st Class: €37,50 / £32.20
    2nd Class: €21,50 / £18.40

    Date of Travel: March 2024
    Operator: Thurbo by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS)
    Motive power: RABe 526 GTW 2/8 electric multiple unit
    Manufacturer: Stadler
    Entered service: 2003-2013

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    22 Comments

    1. @tomcarr1358 on

      Good to see. It's a bit late to remind you of the library at St. Gallen. Add the Zeppelin to your list if ever you are on the other side of the lake at Friedrichshafen

    2. @johncrwarner on

      We did a ferry over the Bodensee
      (we like boats and trains)
      to Lindau – seeing a Zeppelin flying
      on the way.
      Then took a local train from Lindau
      via Breganz then into Switzerland
      changing in St Gallen
      named after an Irish saint St Gall
      (with the double l making the vowel short)
      The Physician Galen is pronounced as you said
      but Gallen is a short a sound.

      We took a tram to Appenzell
      (in Cheese country)
      and there were some weird rack and pinion parts
      to get this light rail / tram over the hills.

    3. @michaellaudahn on

      Please try to stay near the original pronunciation, if you will. Like St Gallen: Your bid at 0:56 was near perfect. Why did you then revise your decision, to henceforth get it wrong?

    4. @enricomonti156 on

      I went to Bodensee, but in Bregenz and in Lindau. The latter is so beautiful and you can travel there by train, making it the only lake island served by a railway in Europe

    5. @ampersand. on

      Well, that was very damp – hope it wasn`t horribly cold as well. Lovely architecture shots (as always) and what very jolly seating on that little train. More public transport should be bright and cheerful like that. Thanks for the Monday treat.

    6. @Fan652w on

      Interesting video. But to put it mildly, I was extremely disappointed that you showed us almost nothing of the public transport paradise which exists OUTSIDE St Gallen station. This heaven-on-earth includes tram-trains running Appenzell to Trogen which have a first class compartment at the Trogen end!; double-articulated in-motion-charging battery-electric trolleybuses; and the double deck buses used by Postbus on some quite scenic out-of-town routes. The double-deck buses are built by a firm called Dennis-Alexander…. (And whenever I visit Switzerland I always visit St Gallen city to ride on all these forms of transport using my Swiss Travel Pass.)

    8. @jeremiahreilly9739 on

      Fun to watch this pleasant little ride. Sorry to see you deal with so much rain. Here in Basel has been mostly sunny with a bit of spotty rain or overcast. I hope you plan a return trip to Switzerland. There are so many other beautiful rides which make travelling through Switzerland as much a joy as being in Switzerland. (Some pronunciation quibbles: St. Gallen = Sankt Gallen; Palazzo Vecchio = Palazzo Vehk-ki-o; Wittenbach = Vittenbach—or close enough.)

    9. @Korschtal on

      I often catch the Karlsruhe trains from Offenburg when visiting family so It's interesting seeing this from an outside perspective, although it's a shame that the weather didn't help. I hope you enjoyed this lovely region anyway…

    16. @rachelehrenberg9231 on

      You boys literally passed my home when you went through the Rosenberg tunnel. And by the way. In English it is perfectly ok to say St. GAL-IN as you did initially. GALL-IN is not even close to either the English or Dialect pronunciation. That is all.

    20. @keithparker5125 on

      You really need to make a video about Lindau – the new Reutin station is served by DB (Germany), OeBB (Austria) and SBB (Switzerland) with both local and intercity trains. I holiday there every year because it is so central (Munich and Zurich are only 2 hours away and Innsbruck can be reached in 3 hours). All 3 countries are within a 30 minute train ride ( a fourth, Lichtenstein takes a little longer via Feldkirch) and you get an amazing deal when staying there – guests in Lindau hotels get a free pass on local buses and trains on the northern shore of the Bodensee for the duration of their stay). An ideal train trip is a journey around the lake on the Guertelbahn from Lindau to Konstanz via Friedrichshafen and Radolfzell, returning to Lindau via Romanshorn, Rorschach, St. Margrethen, and Bregenz).

    22. @Slithermotion on

      Ok…
      So switzerland has borders on the lake.
      Austria has no borders and sees the lake as a common shared commodity.
      Germany is the only country that has no clear definition except for it‘s bay areas.

      Tom scotts video was a bit misleading presenting only the german view and even left out the bit where they also claim certain parts of the lake.

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