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  2. Swiss Federal Railways - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Rail transport in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. List of railway companies in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    The following is a complete list of all 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge railway companies which operate routes on Swiss territory. It also includes routes of foreign railway companies (e.g. Deutsche Bahn), but not routes of Swiss companies in neighbouring countries.

  5. My, how cheap these Swiss trains are. Or are they? - AOL

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    To minimise the risk of the latter, I have made test bookings through Trainline in the UK and a US-based Swiss rail site. They came up with fares from Zurich to Winterthur equivalent to £12.50 ...

  6. Transport in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Key Swiss rail tunnel damaged by derailment won't fully ... - AOL

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    The Swiss federal railway operator, known by its German-language acronym SBB, said the damage from the Aug. 10 derailment in the Gotthard tunnel, Switzerland’s main north-south rail thoroughfare ...

  8. High-speed rail in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    The first stage of the Rail 2000 project finished in 2005, included a new high-speed rail track between Bern and Olten with an operating speed of 200 km/h (125 mph).. The second stage of Rail 2000, still in project, includes line upgrades in the Valais canton (200 km/h (125 mph)) and between Biel and Solothurn (also 200 km/h (125 mph)).

  9. History of rail transport in Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    In 1833 the Grand Duchy of Baden developed plans for a railway connecting the cities Mainz and Frankfurt with Basel and onwards to Chur and Northern Italy. [1] The first line in Switzerland, the extension of the French Strasbourg–Basel Railway (French: Chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle) from Mulhouse to Basel, reached a temporary station outside Basel's walls on 15 June 1844 and the ...

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