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Some sold to Classic Rail 8: Re 4/4 II: 11101–11349 Re 420 101–349 1964–1983 249+1 234 140 4700 2007– 12 units sold to BLS Re 4/4 II: 11350–11397 3: Re 421 371–397 1984–1985 27 26 140 4700 Re 4/4 III: 11350–11370 Re 430 350–370 1968, 1971 1+20 21 125 4700 Some in use at SOB: Re 4/4 IV: 10101–10104 Re 440 5: 1982 4 0 160 4960 ...
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 ...
The Swiss classification system was created by the Swiss federal railways department, and applied originally to the rolling stock of private railways, operating under government concessions. In 1902, when the Swiss Federal Railways was founded as a government railway, that new railway also became bound by the system.
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Railway coaches of Switzerland ... Tram vehicles of Switzerland (5 P) Pages in category "Rolling stock of Switzerland"
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock . Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
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.
It used to be a government institution, but since 1999 it has been a special stock corporation whose shares are held by the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss cantons. It is currently the largest rail and transport company of Switzerland; it operates on most standard gauge lines of the Swiss network.
The transformation of the Swiss Federal Railways into a stock corporation in 1999 initiated a far-reaching restructuring process. In the course of concentrating on core competencies and cost optimization, SBB established the private law foundation "Historisches Erbe der SBB", commonly referred as to "SBB Historic" in English, in 2001.