Switzerland


By Frédéric de Kemmeter – Railway signalling and freelance copywriter
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SnälltågetSwiss diesels locomotives resold in Sweden?
17/12/2021 – According to online magazine Järnvägar.nu, a large number of Swiss diesel locomotives may end up in Sweden in a few years. The company Nordic Re-Finance would have started negotiations with the Swiss state railway company SBB. Nordic Re-Finance has already signed a contract to bring 26 Danish ME diesel locomotives back to Sweden, to be used in Sweden and Norway by Railcare…

Alp_TransitCrossing the Alps: for Switzerland, the job is done!
08/31/2020 – The opening of the Ceneri Tunnel on Friday, 4 September marks the end of the major works of Alpine crossings in Switzerland. Mission accomplished for this country, which is not a member of the European Union, while the other two neighboring countries are still busy with major works. The Ceneri Tunnel is the last major engineering structure of the NRLA infrastructure programme that Switzerland started in 1998. The New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA) is…

Thurbo_1_Bahnfrend_wikiJoint tendering in Switzerland to renew regional trains
05/18/2020 – How to lead significant savings? By joint tendering. This is what SBB and its subsidiaries Thurbo and RegionAlps do. Incidentally, we can measure how Switzerland operates its regional train services by involving its cantons. SBB, Thurbo and RegionAlps issued a call for tenders this Monday for 194 single-deck S-Bahn trains. These trains are intended to replace the existing…

LEX_05_Hupac, a giant of intermodal transport
03/20/2020 – How a small Swiss company became a giant in intermodal rail transport. Hupac, a great success story. Hupac AG is a Swiss group of companies active in intermodal rail freight transport. The name was derived from the german acronym « Huckepack » (piggyback in english), to retain only the contracted name « Hupac ». The headquarters are located in the border town of Chiasso in the…

LEX_05_Switzerland : Léman Express officially inaugurated
– 12/13/2019 – The Leman Express (LEX), a cross-border commuters service around Geneva, will be fully operational this December 15, 2019, at 5:05 am. The Léman Express was born from a major issue in the Geneva region: cross-border commuters traffic. Geneva (205,000 inhabitants) is not only a very international city, but it is also border with France. If we take into account the regional…