SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) unveiled its new Twindexx Express IR 200 long-distance EMU at Bombardier's Villeneuve plant in western Switzerland on June 8.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) increased its group net profit by 56.6% in 2014 to SFr 373m ($US 259.6m) with growth in all sectors.

FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) is to test the Erex IT energy management and billing system on 50 of its freight locomotives developed by the Eress consortium of five European infrastructure managers and one railway.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has named the winners of contracts worth a total of SFr 136m ($US 144m) for tracklaying services over the next 5-10 years.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has exercised an option worth SFr 120m ($US 128.8m) with Alstom for four additional ETR 610 Pendolino tilting EMUs.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) announced on November 19 that it has agreed a revised delivery schedule with Bombardier for a fleet of 59 eight-car Twindexx Express IR 200 long-distance trains ordered four years ago, which will now enter service more than three years later than originally envisaged.

Siemens and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) are currently introducing a new interlocking architecture which incorporates the latest in communications technology. Reto Wagner, head of electronic interlockings and track vacancy detection systems at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), and Peter Hefti product lifecycle manager, Siemens Switzerland, outline Sinet.

In preparation for the start of test operations of the complete tunnel system in autumn 2015, over 650 test runs were carried out on a 13km section of the Gotthard base tunnel in a six-month pilot scheme which ended in June. Anitra Green reports from Switzerland on progress to date.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) published its first half results on September 1, revealing a 3% rise in daily passenger traffic, which increased to 1.002 million, and 27% year-on-year growth in freight traffic, which reached 7.6 billion net tonne-km.