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    SBB announces ICN tilting train modernisation plan

    2020-02-24T15:40:00Z

    Source: SBB SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways has announced plans to undertake the SFr400m mid-life refurbishment of its 44 ICN tilting inter-city trainsets in 2021-29. The work to ensure a further 20 years of operation of the RABDe 500 fleet will incorporate elements from the IC2000 modernisation programme. ...

  • BVZ Chief Executive Fernando Lehner said acquiring new and faster vehicles to replace life-expired rolling stock up to 57 years old formed an important part of the operator’s strategy to develop Gornergrat as a top mountain for national and international
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    Popular Landscape Railway In Switzerland rack EMUs ordered

    2019-12-20T12:07:00Z

    SWITZERLAND: Metre-gauge railway group BVZ Holding has awarded Stadler a SFr45m contract to supply five two-car Abt rack EMUs for use on its 9·4 km Gornergrat mountain railway from 2021. The units will be branded Polaris, derived from POpular LAndscape Railway In Switzerland. The follows the ...

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    Completion of Bahn 2000 infrastructure development in 2004 has raised passenger traffic, with follow-up Bahn 2030 launched in 2009. Alpine base tunnels aim at freight transit modal shift.