SBB Saturday 18th Couple of 421s viewed whilst passing through Zürich: 421 394 EC195 421 383 IC486 RhB Seen in service between 18th to 20th were: 611/12/13/15/16/17/18/21/22/23/24/25/26/30/31 641/642/

MÁV Historic have bought the following A 50 85 18-35 712-6 A 50 85 18-35 713-4 A 50 85 18-35 714-2 A 50 85 18-35 716-7 A 50 85 18-35 717-5 B 50 85 20-35 721-3 B 50 85 20-35 725-4 B 50 85 20-35 729-6 B

The EWI/II and Re 4/4 II set has been replaced by an 8 piece Re 460 push-pull set. This means the only EWI/EWII sets remaining in traffic are the short sets in Basel used at peak hours.

I recently added a few SNCB Rilns cars to my model collection. My question is not about the models, but about the type of consist/train that this type of cars might be found in on Swiss rails. If anyb

ASm Be 4/8 114 has hit a lorry and derailed near Aarwangen Schloss. Two people have been injured. The Bern Kanton Police are quoted as saying the barriers were working correctly: https://www.blick.ch/

The assimilation has begun. The following are now booked for bombardier rubbish: 704 05:19 ex Zürich 713 08:32 ex Geneva Airport 722 13:25 ex St Gallen 731 17:32 ex Geneva Airport 736 21:32 ex Zürich

A friend asked a question on another forum "Is anybody aware of a book on Rhatische Bahn (RhB) and its railway network, especially the routes we see in TS (Albula, Bernina, Arosa..) in English? I coul

I am trying to determine the best day of the week to photograph freight trains in the Basel area. Am I correct in assuming that disregarding holidays and disturbances, the number of trains is normally

Please forgive the amateur query, but does anyone have loco diagrams for the MGB please? Failing that is there any kind of summary of MGB hauled turns or a helpful site (like the Reisezuege site) list

Recently I saw a post about the old practice (ended in 1960) in the U.K. of having "slip coaches" on some trains to save station time. The slip coach would be a carriage on the end of the train which

A posting to a German forum quotes an SBB Kiss as having arrived at Singen on IC488, returning on IC485 today, 04/07. I do hope that is is a total one-off and not a sign of things to come. Whilst here

I saw this photo on FLICKR today. Is the big word "Cargo" being removed from all Re6/6's? https://www.flickr.com/photos/112648581@N02/50064782006/ John

Tram-Museum Zürich have just updated their Facebook cover photograph to show "Our two Mirage trams on museum line 21, Sunday June 28., 2020" (or in the original "Unsere beiden Mirage-Trams auf der Mus

11135 plus EWI/EWII pushpull worked 2071 12:37 Basel SBB-Zürich Flughafen today as rubbish 502 009 failed at Basel SBB

002 009 010 on the La Chaux de Fonds circuit today

The first Capricorns (RTZ) will start commercial service tomorrow. Markus, Gürbetal

A number of years ago, I was copied with a list of Swiss Train codes that provided useful details of each train category for the types of train in operation at that time. For example, National Freight

I have, for the time being, blocked the possibility to edit messsages. This is to avoid that the same message is sent three or more times. Please reread, think and then click. Thank you! Markus, group

I haven't researched it so this is just guesswork, but I bet one proposal was a tunnel from the Wimmis area under Spiez station exiting below Faulensee station - where the lie of the land would provid

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