SBB train on the railway between Zurich and Winterthur (Photo: Nick Augusteijn)

Major Swiss rail upgrade project underway in the Zurich area

SBB train on the railway between Zurich and Winterthur (Photo: Nick Augusteijn)

SBB plans to expand the railway between Zurich and the German border, on behalf of the Swiss federal government. The planned infrastructure upgrades of the major Zurich-Winterthur MehrSpur project will eliminate the current bottleneck in the railway network. This 2.9-billion Swiss francs (2.98 billion euro) project is the largest project in the federal government’s 2035 extension phase.

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Author: Emma Dailey

Emma Dailey is an editor at RailTech.com and RailTech.be.

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