SNCF Geodis subsidiary Viia successfully operated a test train on Switzerland's Gotthard line on October 24 as part of its Transhelvetica project to carry semi-trailers with a 4m corner height across the Alps.
A CEREMONY was held in Basle on October 22 to mark the opening of the city's second railway bridge across the river Rhine.
TWO leading providers of rail technology services, Switzerland's Sersa Group in and Rhomberg Rail Holding, Austria, have announced plans to merge.
As a small, mountainous country with numerous restrictions on lorry movements, Switzerland depends heavily on rail for domestic freight. Anitra Green looks at the special concepts that have emerged to optimise short-distance railfreight operations.
The semi-trailer market offers a huge growth potential for European intermodal operators providing height restrictions on key transalpine corridors can be overcome. Anitra Green reports on a technical innovation that could provide an answer.
SNCF Geodis subsidiary Viia formally presented its Viia Transhelvetica project for the transalpine transport of semi-trailers via the Gotthard line to the Swiss Federal Transport Office (BAV) in Bern on August 14.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) today unveiled the first of 60 modernised coaches, which are being upgraded as part of a drive to accommodate traffic growth.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has placed a €200m order with Alstom for an additional eight ETR 610 Pendolino tilting emus. The order is an option from a contract for seven trains signed in March 2004 by Alstom and Cisalpino, the now defunct joint venture between Trenitalia and SBB.
TWO ETCS balises were ceremonially installed at Airolo on the Gotthard line on Friday 13, marking the start of a five-and-a-half year programme to install balises at 11,000 locations covering the entire Swiss mainline network.
Following the successful introduction of a scheduled intermodal shuttle between Zürich Dietikon and Lausanne Renen at the beginning of this year, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) railfreight subsidiary SBB Cargo has announced plans to develop a national network of intermodal shuttles.