The second railway company of the country, the BLS is target of a takeover by SBB, fully owned by the confederation. SBB wants to buy stock from the canton of Berne, who holds a majority in BLS.

[second revised posting] The second railway company of the country, the BLS is target of a takeover by SBB, fully owned by the confederation. SBB wants to buy stock from the canton of Berne, who

I have for sale: two SBB 2-10-0 Elephants, still in box. one SBB AE 6/6 electric, with power from overheads or tracks. Still in box. Please contact: jack@... thanks.

Hello, Welcome to the SwissRail list. I just returned from winter holidays, so please allow me a few words. Our list is still new, so only few messges come in. If you do not know to tell interesting

Does anyone know why RIGHT-hand running is used through Herisau station instead of the normal Swiss LEFT-hand? This is consistent with all trains, regardless of track occupancy. Also, does anyone

Keith Ballinger asked: The reason for right-hand running is quite simple: Main traffic direction out of Herisau is towards St. Gallen. As BT wants to offer a good service, the idea was, that the

On January 1st, 1999 open access to the Swiss railnetwork was introduced. For the German network this was done even earlier.But until now, a Swiss company can not go to Germany and a German company

According to todays "Bund" newspaper, it was early in the morning of Thursday that the first freight train with BLS locomotive arrived in Chiasso. The train consisted of Re 4/4 189 and only nine

Well, allow me the following explanations: Outside Amerika, nobody would easily understand, what a "2-10-0 Elephant" is. I counted and found out, that it must be a C 5/6, or more generally, a 1'E. The

I haveheard rumours of some merger between the MThB, SOB, and BT. Is there any truthto this? Also, I believe that the MThB now runs regularly on BT tracks - whichroute is this on? Regards,

A little administrative thing: Please do not repeat the wholemessage you are answering on or asking on. Just take the important part anddelete the rest. Otherwise we would have each message twice or

Snip...... New MThB "GTW 2/6" (ABe 2/6) trains for the "Seelinie" are on contractual basis maintained in Herisau by BT. As most MThB rolling stock is fitted with german

Keith asked: I thought the GTW 2/6 on "Seelinie" was the Stadler diesel unit. Iremember one being in St. Gallen for the celebrations in 1997. Is there anelectric version running to Herisau? Do the

Attached are the schedules for the RhB's new Engadine Star May 28 to October 15, 2000. John Fleck

Some Statistic about the Swiss Rail network: 3658km standard gauge 1435mm, of which 2908km SBB 2km narrow gauge 1200mm (Rheineck -Walzenhausen) 1561km meter gauge 1000mm, of which 74km SBB

In November 1999 22km of new line, mainly in Tunnel was addedto the network (RhB Vereina), bringing the total in meter gauge to1583km. Markus Giger

There are messages telling that Reisebüro Mittelthurgau (RMT)would like to sell their rail equipment, as it was nearly impsooible to fullycover costs of operation and maintenance. The five

As newspapers told, BLS will order 6 more NINA(Niederflur-Nahverkehrszüge = low floor short distance trains) to be added tothe existing 8 ABe 4/8 525 001-008. It was said that thougts were made

From our member John Fleck I got this message: I'm sending this to you to show how differently ourCanadian Government treats our passenger train service compared to yourwonderful SBB!! If you would

Regionalverkehr Mittelland (RM) is expected to order 8 GTW 2/6in the near future. They would be standard gauge and 15000V 16.7Hz as those ofMThB. Markus Giger