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SBB GmbH, also known as SBB Deutschland, is a railway company that operates services in Germany and the cantons of Basel-City and Schaffhausen in Switzerland. It is a subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways , the state railway company of Switzerland .
Services are operated by SBB GmbH, Swiss Federal Railways' German subsidiary, and Thurbo. Regional railway services in the city of Schaffhausen and other nearby towns are complemented by services of Zürich S-Bahn ( S9 , S12 , S24 , S29 , S33 ), St. Gallen S-Bahn ( S1 ), the Seehas (S6), and RB30 of Basel S-Bahn . [ 2 ]
The company is commonly referred to by the initials of its three official names (in German, French, Italian) – defined by federal law SR/RS 742.31 (SBBG/LCFF/LFFS) Art. 2 §1 [1] – either as SBB CFF FFS, or used separately. The official English abbreviation is SBB.
The InterCity, abbreviated IC, is a category of mainline train services in Switzerland operated by Swiss Federal Railways, connecting the country's major cities, the range of services (in Switzerland) of which is located between InterRegio (IR) (inter-regional) and EuroCity (EC).
SBB GmbH, SBB's German subsidiary, also operates a regional line, named the Seehas, and one line of Basel S-Bahn entirely on German territory close to the Swiss border. France. There are a few railway lines crossing the France–Switzerland border, the most-frequented ones being the Lyon–Geneva railway and the Strasbourg–Basel railway lines.
The SBB RAe 4/8 Red Arrow crossing the Feuerthalen Rhine bridge [] in April 2018. Whilst based on the design of the earlier single car Red Arrows, the double Red Arrow Re 4/8 301 was built exclusively for use on charter trains, and is capable of speeds up to 150 kilometres per hour (93 mph).
The S-Bahn is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), its German subsidiary SBB GmbH, the German DB, and the French SNCF Voyageurs. The responsible transport authorities are the Swiss cantons of Basel-City , Basel-Country , Aargau , Solothurn , Jura ; the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the French region of Grand Est .
Bern railway station (German: Bahnhof Bern) serves the municipality of Bern, the federal city of Switzerland.Opened progressively between 1858 and 1860, and rebuilt several times since then, it lies on the Olten–Bern and the Lausanne–Bern lines (together forming the line known as the Mittellandlinie in German) and is near the end of the Lötschberg line.