Health warning - Don't play the linked video unless you have half an hour to sit mesmerized by high quality moving images of stunning heritage electric trains in stunning scenery! https://www.youtube.

ZVV/ VBZ today announced an order for 70 Bombardier Flexity 2 trams for delivery from 2018 http://mobile2.tagesanzeiger.ch/articles/573af28cab5c371886000001 (German) [Non-text portions of this message

My son has seen an black Re 620 hauling à cargo train near Winterthur. Front windows had golden frameworks instead aluminium ones. A big swiss flag on the side, circled with leaves. The side was marke

The Rigibahnen company has published in its shareholder letter a drawing of new articulated EMUs that should be ordered from Stadler. It seems that there is still a debate about the number of EMUs to

The Appenzellerbahn line from St Gallen towards Gais will be diverted to a new formation from next Monday, 25th October. This is nearer to the SBB Goods station. Indeed a new halt GÜTERBAHNHOF will op

Schweizer Eisenbahn Revie reports that from 12.12.2021 ALL IC1 (St Gallen to Geneva Airport) trains will be 502 units. There will be 9 diagrams each consisting of two units

180 182 183 185 192 170 179 spare at Kandersteg I had 185 down as withdrawn so a bit of a Brucie bonus

I will be returning to Switzerland for train photography in the middle of October after missing last year. I am looking for some interesting narrow gauge trains that can be taken on one day, Zürich ro

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help? I'm off to the Rhätische Bahn next week, and I'm quite well gened up on RhB stuff. What I don't know anything about is the standard gauge where it mixes from Landqu

11129 11131 11140 are now stored at Balsthal, why nobody seems to know, all three are currently not permitted to run. The following locos went for scrap yesterday (Kaiseraugst): 11363 11369 421 375 42

The rules for overhauls ("Revisionen") are mileage based but the vehicle must have one at least every six years or after 6 years a techincal inspection ("Technische Kontrolle") to ensure it is still s

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RhB intend that all will be withdrawn by this time next year, with one preserved by the company. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a report on the RhB today including their reported travelling on 705

SBB have started the process to acquire new single deck EMU sets for regional trains to be delivered 2025-2035 These are intended to replace 114 NPZ Domino, 15 RABe 520, 110 THURBO GTW units plus 82 F

The usual monthly summary of diagrams for the remaining RhB Ge6/6ii for Sept has been uploaded tonight to the files area, folder “RhB”. Remarkably, given indications they would not last the summer, at

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 06:25 PM, Martin Baumann wrote: > > The football coaches are 50 85 21-73 501 to 532. These are normally kept for > match special trains but I have seen them in service trains >

By 2028 SZU want to run every 15 minutes off peak and every 7 1/2 minutes at peak times on the Sihltal LIne. This will require doubling three sections including Brunau to Manegg. Research has shown th

Can anyone confirm whether the AB’s Ge 4/4 lok, number 1, has any passenger work or is purely infrastructure / freight ? It seems to be one of those things rarely reported, if ever. Thanks, David

MGB has recently repainted Uah 2893, which transports fuel from Visp to Zermatt, in red. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MGB_Zisterenenwagen_2893_20210912E048.jpg Markus, Gürbetal

SBB have ten Hybrid locos on order from Alstom.They have been leasing the type from Südleasing since 2017 and it has been operated by both SBB Cargo Deutschland and SBB Cargo in Swtizerland. The H3 is