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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 Solothurn–Moutier railway line is a 22 kilometre-long standard-gauge line in Switzerland, connecting Solothurn via the Weissenstein Tunnel to Moutier in the Bernese Jura. At the start of operations in 1908, the Emmentalbahn (Emmental Railway) took over operations of the line, which was owned by the Solothurn-Münster-Bahn (Solothurn ...
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 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.
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 IC 2000 is a double-deck push-pull train in Switzerland and is run by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) as part of its InterCity service. Top speed is 200 km/h. Top speed is 200 km/h. The train set can be composed of up to 10 coaches and provides close to 1,000 seats, according to SBB.
A consortium of Swiss and Australian companies (SLM, BBC, and Comeng [5]) provided the rolling stock, overhead wiring, sub-stations, communications and signalling. The 5.9 kilometre line opened from Bullocks Flat to Perisher on 26 July 1987 with the entire line opened through to Blue Cow on 31 March 1988.
Walzenhausen railway station (German: Bahnhof Walzenhausen) is a railway station in Walzenhausen, in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. It is the upper terminus of the Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain rack railway line of Appenzell Railways .