As newspapers told, BLS will order 6 more NINA
(Niederflur-Nahverkehrszüge = low floor short distance trains) to be added to
the existing 8 ABe 4/8 525 001-008. It was said that thougts were made to
include toilets as the working range of these trains was widened (against first
plannings) with their use on "S-Bahn Bern" (they now usually run S5 Bern -
Neuchâtel, S51Bern - Bümpliz Nord/Rosshäusern, S55 Bern - Murten and on weekends
and in the evening S2 Schwarzenburg - Bern - Langnau). The 6 trainsets would
replace the remaining two-car ABDe 4/8 751-54 and the Be 4/4
761-62.
BLS tries to place its order together with MO (Martigny -
Orsières), which wants to buy 2 shortened trains (Be 4/6), and perhaps other
railway companies. Nothing was said whether fianancement for the trainsets was
secured.
