With passenger traffic having topped one million passengers a day for the first time and the railfreight sector back in profit after decades of losses, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) appears to be on a roll.
TRIAL operations have begun on Zürich's new Durchmesserlinie (DML) cross-city link, which is due to open on June 15, with a total of 60 test trains passing through the new Löwenstrasse station beneath Zürich's existing main station over the weekend of April 12-13.
RHAETIAN Railway (RhB), Switzerland's largest independently-owned railway, saw a 2.9% increase in passenger traffic last year, according to the company's annual results, which also show freight performance remains below expectations.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has completed a five-year project to renovate its fleet of 232 EuroCity passenger coaches at a cost of SFr 160m.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has placed an order worth over SFr 50m ($US 56.9m) for 485 new freight wagons from Žos Trnava, Slovakia.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) saw its profits fall by 43.6% last year to SFr 238.2m ($US 269m) as operating expenses climbed 4.3% to SFr 8bn, mainly due to an increase in track access charges and additional expenditure on network maintenance.
AN INTERNATIONAL group set up to promote the development of an S-Bahn network encircling Lake Constance has called on the governments of Switzerland, Austria, and Germany to invest in track-doubling and electrification in order to make the project a reality.
AFTER four years in the red, Swiss railfreight operator BLS Cargo announced on March 18 that it recorded a profit of SFr 1.5m ($US 1.7m) in 2013.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has become the sixth European railway infrastructure manager to join the European partnership for railway energy settlement (Eress), a non-profit group which has been set up to implement accurate metering and billing of traction energy consumption.
BOMBARDIER's F140 AC LM 'Last Mile' electro-diesel locomotive entered service with Swiss railfreight operator BLS Cargo on March 6, when one of the class 187 locomotives was used to haul new multiple units from the Stadler plant at Bussnang to a non-electrified freight terminal in Visp.