Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) MCP Server

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answering

Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Swiss trains and public transport: live connections and departures. Official data, free, no key.

Uptime history 5 days of history

5 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

412 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add transit-switzerland --transport http https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ch-rail

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ch-rail

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.transit-switzerland]
url = "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ch-rail"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "transit-switzerland": {
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ch-rail"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "transit-switzerland": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ch-rail"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

station

ch_find_station

Finds the exact Swiss station or stop names matching a word (German, French or Italian names). Use when: a place name is ambiguous or misspelled. Example: {"query":"Lausanne"}

ch_station_departures

Next departures (train, bus, tram) from one Swiss station or stop: time, line, destination, platform, live delay. Use when: someone is at (or going to) a Swiss station and wants the next departures. Example: {"station":"Bern"}

connections

ch_connections

Journeys between two places in Switzerland by train, bus, tram or boat (SBB/CFF/FFS, PostBus and all Swiss operators): departure and arrival times, platforms, transfers, live delays. Use when: someone needs to travel by public transport in Switzerland (e.g. Zürich to Geneva). Example: {"from":"Zürich HB","to":"Genève"}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://faceabot.com/tools-mcp/ch-rail	streamable-http	answering	389 ms	0 min ago

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Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ch_connections, ch_find_station, ch_station_departures. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 412 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF)?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) need an API key?

No. Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF) completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Faceabot Transit Switzerland (SBB/CFF)?

It answers our handshake in 412 ms on average, which is faster than 34% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.