THIRTEEN years after launching its first rolling road service across the Alps, Swiss intermodal operator RAlpin carried its millionth lorry on February 28.
VOTERS in Switzerland have approved by a majority of 62% the so-called Faif project to invest SFr 6.4bn ($US 7.1bn) in maintaining and upgrading the national rail network.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) confirmed on January 31 that the delivery of a fleet of 59 long-distance trains from Bombardier will be delayed by two years.
SWITZERLAND will provide €120m towards gauge enhancement works on the Luino Ranzo – Gallarate/Novara line in northern Italy under an agreement signed in Berne on January 28 by Swiss federal councilor for transport Mrs Doris Leuthard, and Italian transport minister Mr Maurizio Lupi.
LOHR Industrie, France, has rolled out a prototype of a new low-floor intermodal wagon designed to carry semitrailers with a corner height of 4m on routes where this has previously not been possible.
APPENZELL Railways (AB), Switzerland, has awarded Stadler a contract worth around SFr 60m ($US 66m) to supply seven Tango low-floor LRVs.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has completed a SFr 37m ($US 40.8m) project to roll out two new traction energy management systems across its 3087km electrified network.
REGIONAL train services across a large area of eastern Switzerland were stepped up on December 15 with a major expansion of the St Gallen S-Bahn network.
SWISS transport minister Mrs Doris Leuthard launched the first official test train into the 57km Gotthard Base Tunnel on December 16, marking the 900-day countdown to the completion of the project, which is scheduled for December 2016.
GERMAN Rail's (DB) long-distance passenger division, DB Fernverkehr, has issued a call for tenders to fit European Train Control System (ETCS) to its ICE1 fleet of high-speed trains.