A new SFr 87m ($US 87.7m) tram link between the Swiss city of Basle and the French town of St Louis in Alsace was officially opened on December 9 after two years of construction, reviving a cross-border tram service which closed around 60 years ago.
SWISS light rail operators Baselland Transport (BLT) and Zürich-based Limmatttalbahn have issued a joint tender for the supply of 18 metre-gauge LRVs with the contract set to include up to eight options.
SWISS Port Railway (HBSAG), which operates two River Rhine ports in Basle, one of the most important junctions on the Rotterdam - Genoa TEN-T rail corridor, opened a new railway control centre in Kleinhünigen on July 3.
SIEMENS announced on February 16 that DB Regio has ordered 39 EMUs to operate on its Rhine Valley rail network in southwest Germany from 2020.
GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Zugbus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee and Swiss Federal Railways’ (SBB) German subsidiary SBB Deutschland have been awarded the tender for regional passenger train services of the ‘Aulendorfer Kreuz’ regional network by the public transport authorities of the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the Bavarian Railway Company (BEG).
SWISS Federal Railways’ freight subsidiary SBB Cargo plans to introduce a synchronised timetable for its single wagonload traffic sector at the timetable change on December 11, with up to three daily shifts at its main marshalling yards instead of just one.
Momentum appears to be building for the establishment of a tri-national S-Bahn centred on Basle, Switzerland. However, as Anitra Green reports, the project still needs to overcome several hurdles.
GERMAN infrastructure manager DB Network is planning to upgrade the 3.1km line on Swiss territory between the German border and the bridge across the River Rhine in Basle at a cost €273m.
SWITZERLAND's Federal Office of Transport (BAV) has granted Basle Transport Authority (BVB) planning permission for the Swiss section of the cross-border extension of tram Line 3 to Saint Louis in France.
BASLE Transport Authority (BVB) celebrated the opening of the city's first light rail link into Germany on December 14 with a day of free rides on the northern extension of Line 8 from Kleinhüningen to Weil-am-Rhein in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
