SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) published its 2015 annual results on March 18, confirming a group net profit of SFr 246m ($US 254m), 34.1% down from the previous year, despite recording a 1.4% increase in operating revenues, which rose to SFr 8.8bn.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held in the Swiss canton of Aargau on March 9 to mark the start of major construction works on the new Bözberg railway tunnel.
SWISS railfreight operator BLS Cargo reported an 11% increase in traffic last year with a total of 18,225 trains operated compared with 16,486 in 2014.
SWITZERLAND's Federal Office of Transport (BAV) published a report on January 14 detailing the reasons behind the deterioration in the condition of the country's standard-gauge infrastructure and outlining potential solutions to the problem.
ALPTRANSIT Gotthard has carried out a series of test runs in the Gotthard base tunnel with a 1500m-long freight train in preparation for the opening of the 57km tunnel later this year.
PROPOSALS to construct a metre-gauge line linking Switzerland's Zentralbahn (ZB) and the Matterhorn Gotthard Railway (MGB) via a tunnel beneath the Grimsel Pass were unveiled in Berne on February 4.
SWITZERLAND's largest private railway BLS has awarded IG Valbt, a consortium of Swiss engineering companies led by SRP Ingenieur, a contract to plan to the extension of double-track in the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has exercised an SFr 38m ($US 37.3m) option with a German consortium of Windhoff and Dräger Safety for three additional self-propelled firefighting and rescue trains (LRZs), which will be delivered by the end of 2018.
The Gotthard base tunnel is due to be handed over by the construction company to the operator on June 1 in readiness for the start of operations in December. Anitra Green looks at some of the issues involved with Renzo Simoni of AlpTransit and Peter Jedelhauser of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).
The final breakthrough of the western bore of Switzerland's 15.4km Ceneri base tunnel was achieved at noon on January 21, with a deviation of only 2cm horizontally and 1cm vertically.
