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Re 460, one of the principal locomotives used on InterCity lines in Switzerland. As part of the Rail 2000 project, a new line capable of 200 km/h (120 mph) was built and put into service at the end of 2004 in order to reduce the journey time between the stations of Bern and Olten to less than half an hour and from Bern. in Zurich in less than ...
Urban rail transit in Switzerland includes trams and light rail in several cities, commuter rail systems centered around cities (known as S-Bahn), a single, small metro system and funiculars. Plans for a rapid transit in Zurich , Switzerland's largest city, were discontinued after a referendum.
Swiss Federal Railways (German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB; [b] French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, CFF; [c] Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere, FFS [d]) [1] is the national railway company of Switzerland. The company, founded in 1902, is headquartered in Bern. [8]
Services are operated by SBB GmbH, Swiss Federal Railways' German subsidiary, and Thurbo. Regional railway services in the city of Schaffhausen and other nearby towns are complemented by services of Zürich S-Bahn ( S9 , S12 , S24 , S29 , S33 ), St. Gallen S-Bahn ( S1 ), the Seehas (S6), and RB30 of Basel S-Bahn . [ 2 ]
This is a list of the busiest railway stations in Switzerland, loosely based on statistics and data received on the year of 2014. In this list, all stations can be considered as major stations or hubs, as well as stations serving major cities, large towns, or in some occasions, airports.
The December 2004 timetable change saw major expansions of the Bern S-Bahn concept. This was partly enabled by infrastructure improvements carried out under the Rail 2000 program. The three RBS lines were formally incorporated into the network, SBB transferred the operation of the S1 and S3 to the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn (BLS).
The St. Gallen S-Bahn (German: S-Bahn St. Gallen) is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail in Eastern Switzerland and neighbouring areas. The network connects stations in the Swiss cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Glarus, Grisons, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Zürich, as well as a few stations in Austria (Bregenz, Vorarlberg) and Germany (Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg ...
Bern railway station (German: Bahnhof Bern) serves the municipality of Bern, the federal city of Switzerland.Opened progressively between 1858 and 1860, and rebuilt several times since then, it lies on the Olten–Bern and the Lausanne–Bern lines (together forming the line known as the Mittellandlinie in German) and is near the end of the Lötschberg line.