Am 05.11.2020 um 21:54 schrieb main@SwissRail.groups.io Notification:

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the main@SwissRail.groups.io group.
* /Timetables/2021e120.pdf
<https://SwissRail.groups.io/g/main/files/Timetables/2021e120.pdf>

Graphic timetable of MOB can be downloaded from here:
<https://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/fileadmin/fap_pdf_graphic_tt/2021/GMOB.pdf>

Am 05.11.2020 um 21:13 schrieb Markus:

Furthermore I can also confirm, that MGB 106 is still in the state of
being converted and that it will remain in this state still for some time.
Finally I can also confirm, that MGB 105 entered Bellinzuona workshop as
well, where it will be repaired and then converted as well. It can be
expected, that it will stay in the state of being converted for quite
some time. So, pleas be patient.

It seems that not everybody is familiar with this project...

MGB contracted SBB workshop Bellinzona to convert 9 of its HGe 4/4 II from thyristor control with dc motors to GTO thyristor control with ac three-phase motors. At the same time the mechanical part is renovated.

Markus

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the main@SwissRail.groups.io group.

• /Timetables/2021e120.pdf

By: Guerbetaler

Description:
2021 timetable project for MOB containing postponed gauge changing trains

11356 and 11358 are back out

91 85 4475 425-5 CH-BLSC works number 22896

In another years long field of patience I can confirm that still more patience is needed. The starting date of 13 June 2021 for the MOB gauge changing trains Montreux - Interlaken has been postponed. CORONA delayed bogie delivery and reduced patronage so that an opening is not expected before Dec 2022.

The planned timetable has been published under 120 on
<http://www.fahrplanentwurf.ch>
and was already online on sbb.ch but has now vanished. The trains would have departed from Montreux at ..35 and would have train numbers 4064, 4068 etc.

The 2021 graphic timetable contains trains at ..35 with train numbers
2708F, 2710F, 2712F etc. It seems that MOB thinks of offering fast trains at peak times. Nothing else has been published so far.

Markus, Gürbetal

Am 05.11.2020 um 20:33 schrieb David Prior via groups.io:

I’ve not read anything about this for many months : can anyone
confirm the status of this conversion ?

I can confirm that it is in the state of being converted and will remain in this state for quite some time. You have to be very, very, very patient.

Furthermore I can also confirm, that MGB 106 is still in the state of being converted and that it will remain in this state still for some time.

Finally I can also confirm, that MGB 105 entered Bellinzuona workshop as well, where it will be repaired and then converted as well. It can be expected, that it will stay in the state of being converted for quite some time. So, pleas be patient.

:-)

Markus

I’ve not read anything about this for many months : can anyone confirm the status of this conversion ?
e.g. Is there any planned date for it to be in traffic, or does the deluge of Capricorns mean it’s no longer needed (this week 3121 appears on rosters for the first time) ?

Where exactly the new 4-track section will start ('...vom nördlichen Rheinufer in Basel.).

<https://map.geo.admin.ch/?lang=en&bgLayer=ch.swisstopo.swissimage&E=2613200&N=1267615&zoom=12&crosshair=marker>

"Die Strecke findet ihre Fortsetzung Richtung Süden über die 2. Rheinbrücke in Basel, deren Bau im Oktober 2012 abgeschlossen wurde."

Length is only 3.1 km, of which about 2/3 lay within Basel Bad Bf., between Rhein and Wiese river. Another km is between Wiese bridge and the frontier.

Markus

4002 entered service today (line 11)

I already did. It has not yet been posted into the comment section as of a few days ago.

Regards

Mike C

Here are the photos that I had managed to find:

http://home.datacomm.ch/eisenbahn.info/re66/rebild09a.jpg
http://home.datacomm.ch/eisenbahn.info/re66/rebild10a.jpg
As well as this report, which also includes a report on the later collision in Osogna (1986):
http://home.datacomm.ch/eisenbahn.info/re66/ungluecksfaelle.pdf

Regards

Mike C

Am 03.11.2020 um 22:50 schrieb Guerbetaler:

The Swiss fire brigade journal published the photo attached on its title
page of the August 1980 issue.

Another photo from that journal shows the other side.

Markus

The Swiss fire brigade journal published the photo attached on its title page of the August 1980 issue. 11629 rolled against 11630 at the head of an oil train in Muttenz. Obviously 11629 hadn't been duly parked and secured.

Markus

If the chalk marking was 11605 it would be a different matter but '605' means nothing necessarily. So who's going to post the comment in Railpictures...?

There is another photo taken the same day which clearly shows 11629 in the shops, so that would suggest that it has to be 11630 in stripped down state in the photo from the original post:
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/752691/

11629 was the locomotive that 11630 collided with as it was pulling an oil train in Basel harbour.

This photo shows a pair of Re 6/6 cab enclosures, of which at least one probably ended up in the rebuilt 11630:
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/752722/

Regards

Mike C

... and most assuredly of interest, I would say (well, subject to travel restrictions one day being lifted!).

Thanks for sharing
Mick

Am 02.11.2020 um 22:32 schrieb David Prior via groups.io:

in folder RhB. [...] (Apologies if this is not the optimal folder

Perfect place! If anybody has doubts as to where he might upload interesting stuff, don't hesitate to contact the moderators at
<mailto:SwissRail+owner@groups.io>

Markus