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. Gover

[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 holds

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 t

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 know

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.

On January 1st, 1999 open access to the Swiss rail network 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

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 (Brünig: L

In November 1999 22km of new line, mainly in Tunnel was added to the network (RhB Vereina), bringing the total in meter gauge to 1583km. Markus Giger

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

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 i

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

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

Gr�tzi the list, My name is Ari and I'm a student from the city of Geneva. I used to have some trains and I'm always in admiration in front the St-Gothard model in the Luzern transport museum� TRA

Dear Markus, I took what I posted from standard news in a book about Switzerland printed in 1999. Sorry for the imprecisions whether they hurt you, it was only general informations that had the qualit

Please do not post personal answers to the list but to the person concerned. The e-mail adress of this person is always given in the header of the message. Now the personal thing, sorry, but as it was

Hello, this is Ari again. I simply explain to the members why it was written what I posted. The list is not moderated�Ok I won't post anything in the future, because I'll leave the list, I didn't re

Ari won't read it, but this is the text I copied from the site he mentioned: Our coaches run mainly towards neighbouring France as well as more distant destinations. With Eurolines we also make connec

ONElist, the company that has hosted SwissRail, merged several months ago with a similar company called eGroups. Since then, those lists hosted on the old eGroups system have been moved to the superio

SBB plans to buy 18 GTW 2/6 for the Seetalbahn (Lake Valley Railway of Switzerland), a line having its rails mostly alongside the road. The GTW 2/6 would also be used on other lines in the canton of A