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The Swiss Federal Railways rail network is totally electrified. Its last non-electrified railway line ( Etzwilen–Singen ) was closed to regular traffic in 2004 and it is now a heritage railway. The metre gauge Brünigbahn was SBB's only non-standard gauge line, until it was out-sourced and merged with the Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn to form ...
The SBB RABDe 500, also known as the ICN, [a] is a Swiss high speed passenger EMU, which was introduced in 2000, in time for Expo.02 held in western Switzerland in 2002. Its maximum speed is 200 km/h (125 mph), and it employs tilting technology, which allows it to travel through curvy routes faster than non-tilting trains.
The series was introduced as part of the Rail 2000 project, a massive project to modernise and improve the capacity of Switzerland's railways. [2]Upon their entry into service in the early 1990s, they replaced the Ae 3/6 I [], Ae 4/7, and Re 4/4 I [] series units, and displaced many of the Re 4/4 II series into lesser duties.
At Andermatt, the line connects with the former Schöllenenbahn to Göschenen on the standard gauge Gotthard Railway of Swiss Federal Railways. Brig in the canton of Valais is a rail junction with standard gauge lines of Swiss Federal Railways and BLS. It sits at the north end of the Simplon Tunnel on the Milan–Lausanne line and Milan–Bern ...
The Bière–Apples–Morges Railway (BAM) or Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges, located in Switzerland, is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway with a total length of almost 30 kilometres (19 mi) which links the towns in its name and from a junction at Apples to the village of L’Isle.
The train is named after the Aare and Linth rivers, which it follows/crosses on its journey. Aare Linth is operated by SOB in cooperation with SBB CFF FFS; it runs entirely on the Swiss Federal Railways network. Stadler "Traverso" trainsets operate on this InterRegio line except during rush hour, when higher-capacity rolling stock of SBB CFF ...
The Ae 4/7 was a universal locomotive of the Swiss Federal Railways, employing the so-called Buchli drive. Because of this drive construction, invented by Jakob Buchli, it was one of the longest-lasting Swiss locomotives. It was in regular use for 70 years, from the 1920s into the 1990s, hauling freight and passenger trains all over Switzerland.
Appearing monthly since 1978, the SER is written by correspondents (some writing anonymously) in rail transport companies, in the industry and in government. [1] Each issue consists of four parts: reports from Switzerland, reports from other European countries, international reports and a number of articles covering current topics on one or two ...