Rode the Lausanne metro two days ago, and watched the pneumatic tyres in operation...

AOMC BDe 4/4 512 513 514 have been sold to the Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium who are building their own metre gauge line: https://www.facebook.com/JardinDesMondes/

Marcus: For some reason all of the Flickr links in my previous message were repeated. Would you be able to erase the duplicates? Thank you, John

I am presuming that by Thurbo, you actually mean the introduction of the Stadler Flirt and Kiss type trainsets, the first of which was the new trainsets for the Seetal line and was followed by the

Markus, thanks for the information about the IC Bt. I did not mean that they were converted from Bpm EC that had already been operational. I meant that the conversion was at the design level and

Thanks Mike: You were right about the FLIRT vs the Thurbo. Please note that I am very ignorant of coach types and numbering. I do remember way back seeing some white/orange Swiss Express coaches that

On the same day, they will add a headboard to all Allegras: "I am also a locomotive"

Am 19.06.2016 um 07:37 schrieb tudoryork: Of course. No other date is possible, as you correctly assume! Markus, Gürbetal

Am 19.06.2016 um 03:57 schrieb csipromo@... [SwissRail]: Bt EW III were rebuilt 1986/87. Green driving trailers appeared about the same time with Re 4/4 II. At that time there were still many Dt

Are there any link to the official info / press release? thnx & regards toma

Will these headboards be in use by next April please? Bernard

1. Red locomotives appear 2. Ae 4/7's begin to fade away 3. Re 460's appear 4. Rect. headlamps and angled front handrails appear AFAIR the first locomotives with the rectangular headlights

Thank you Markus! John

Am 18.06.2016 um 23:49 schrieb jlovda@... [SwissRail]: Re 4/4" 11178 15.11.1983 1992 1992-96 11178 came with rectangular headlamps, handrails only later (for UIC-cable) 2005 withdrawn (SBB)

I have been looking at my slides and images of Swiss trains lately and I am mentally trying to date some of the bigger visual changes I've seen since my first trip in 1983. I know some were gradual

MGB B 2285, an SIG type I coach, was torn apart in a push-pull consist in the Matter valley some days ago. It seems that the aluminium of these coaches has suffered over the years. ZB had to take the

Am 18.06.2016 um 22:19 schrieb mark31ellis@... [SwissRail]: I think RhB will put headboards on the Ge 4/4 II indicating "I'm a motor coach" in order to reduce the number of loco hauled

Does any body know when the first of these units will enter service, also, when will we see complete elimination of loco hauled passenger services other than Chur-St Moritz ? Presumably the Vereina

16 and 17.07 23 and 24.07 (and later 26 and 27.11) between 0630 and 2130 Reduced service between Basel and Olten/Zürich. One casualty is the Gotthard IR trains which will terminate/start at

No trains and no bus replacement on the following dates due to the Tour de France being in the area: (Perhaps a reaction to what happened with the TGV last year