Swiss railway company BLS now estimates that renovation works in the Lötschberg tunnel will cost 180 million Swiss franc (183,4 million euro). This represents a cost overrun of 75 million franc over the original 2018...Read more
Local Swiss operator Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn earlier on Monday began using its first new Stadler Orion multiple units. The trains run run on the Alpine network operated by Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, a division of the...Read more
SBB has begun breaking apart and removing a 500-tonne boulder on the face of the Ross mountain. Inspections back in April revealed that the giant piece of rock was at risk of coming off the...Read more
Stadler and local Swiss operator Pilatus Bahnen have marked the start of operations of new rolling stock on the Pilatus Railway, the steepest rack railway for passengers in the world, near the city of Lucerne....Read more
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...Read more
To create more capacity for rail traffic in Switzerland, especially in the Bern area, SBB plans several major infrastructure works, made public this week. Centerpiece is a 1.7-kilometre tunnel west of the city center., and...Read more
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) will be implementing timetable changes across Switzerland in December 2023 and 2024. Timetable adjustments are also planned for 2025 in certain regions. Further adjustments will also be made to minimise the...Read more
Swiss railway manager SBB will renovate the Hauenstein base tunnel starting this summer after two postponements. Repairing the tunnel vault, renewing tracks and cables and improving drainage should guarantee safe, trouble-free rail operations in the...Read more
Swiss parliament member Matthias Aebische is calling on the Federal Council to examine with France and Great Britain how a direct Basel-London daily train connection can be created.Read more
The French and Swiss state railways SNCF and SBB have renewed their cooperation agreement until 2027. The TGV Lyria cross-border services will thus continue running for at least another five years.Read more
Cargo Sous Terrain (CST), the Swiss company working on underground rail freight transport, will start tunnel boring-related activities for the first time. Test drilling and geophysical measurements of the subsoil along the first section of...Read more
Destined for the city centres and suburbs of North East England, new Stadler-built metro trains have been spotted in the Swiss Alps. The trains are at the start of their long journey to acceptance and...Read more
Swiss railway operator SBB will be working to renovate and upgrade its fleet of 19 Astoro train sets in the coming five years. The first train arrived at the Bellinzona maintenance centre on Monday, having...Read more
SBB’s train station in Basel will gain an additional platform and a temporary overpass as part of a 180-million franc expansion project (182,7 million euros). The works, which will begin in January, are necessary in...Read more
A new train service with the name GoldenPass Express starts service this week in Switzerland. The train features a novelty: it switches from metric to standard gauge, as the first in the world. Read more