On 14 November and 1 December 2016, in readiness for the introduction of full services with the 2017 timetable, SBB held what it described as two "Focus Days“, running trains to the latter timetable on the Gotthard Base Tunnel line. These were the first times the tunnel had been used so intensively, and demonstrated that the GBT line is even more reliable than the rest of the SBB network - all trains ran to schedule.
On 1 December 2016 BLS’s TRAXX 187 008, on hire from Railpool, leaves the southern portal of the GBT.
Photo: Peider Trippi