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Locomotive used by the Swiss Northern Railway (1868 photograph) The construction and operation of Swiss railways during the 19th century was carried out by private railways. The first internal line (known as the Spanisch Brötli Bahn) was a 16 km (9.9 mi) line opened from Zürich to Baden in 1847, operated by the Swiss Northern Railway. By 1860 ...
In each scale, the whole of Switzerland was covered. In 1979, with the issuance of the last 1:25,000 scale sheet, the work was completed. The map sheets have been produced in several different versions: topographic maps, tourist maps, special maps (for aerospace, geology, etc.). They are now also available on electronic media. The topographic ...
The Swiss railway network The Swiss road network. Switzerland has a dense network of roads and railways. The Swiss public transport network has a total length of 24,500 kilometres and has more than 2600 stations and stops. The crossing of the Alps is an important route for European transportation, as the Alps separate Northern Europe from ...
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rail: Swiss Federal Railways Olten–Lausanne line [7] [8] Great St Bernard Tunnel: 5.798: road: Grenchenberg Tunnel: 8.578: rail: BLS AG Grenchenberg line [9] [10] Gubrist Tunnel: 3.273: road: A1 motorway: Hauenstein Base Tunnel: 8.134: rail: Swiss Federal Railways Hauenstein line: Hauenstein Summit Tunnel: 2.495: rail: Swiss Federal Railways ...
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Switzerland has an extensive collection of narrow-gauge railways, almost all of which are metre gauge and electrified with different voltages. Most lines have at least one interchange station with the standard gauge Swiss Federal Railways or Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway .
The Schynige Platte Railway This is a list of heritage railways in Switzerland . For convenience, the list includes any pre-World War II railway in the large sense of the term (either adhesion railway , rack railway or funicular ) currently operated with at least several original or historical carriages.