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April 9, 2020 | Financial

Passenger numbers up for BLS in 2019, as BLS Cargo faces tough 2020

SWITZERLAND’s second-largest operator BLS carried 67.7 million passengers on its rail and bus services in 2019, 1.7 million more than in 2018, the company’s annual results show.

April 3, 2020 | Freight

Freight train accident kills driver in southwest Germany

THE driver of an SBB Cargo International freight train is dead and several lorry drivers are injured after a locomotive hauling a rolling road service collided with a concrete bridge section at Auggen on the Karlsruhe - Basle main line, about 20km north of Basle, at around 19.30 on April 2.

August 22, 2019 | Main line

SBB and BLS reach compromise on inter-city concessions

THE Swiss Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications announced on August 22 that the BLS and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) have reached a compromise agreement on the operation of the country’s inter-city network.

July 8, 2019 | Main line

SBB suspends inter-city appeal following talks with BLS

SWISS Federal Railways’ (SBB) has announced it has asked the Federal Administrative Court to suspend its appeal against the Swiss Federal Transport Office’s (BAV) allocation of inter-city concessions after weeks of discussions with BLS.

May 10, 2019 | Main line

BLS pauses plan to take on Swiss inter-city services

SWITZERLAND’s second-largest railway BLS announced on May 9 that it will not take over the operation of two inter-city routes it was awarded in June 2018 by the Swiss Transport Office (BAV) following a ruling by the Federal Administrative Court.

April 17, 2019 | Financial

BLS declares loss in 2018 despite revenue increase

BLS, Switzerland’s second largest railway, reported positive operational results across all four sectors in 2018, but still ended the year with a loss.

April 2, 2019 | Freight

BLS Cargo achieves strong revenue and profit growth

SWISS rail freight operator BLS Cargo achieved a 15.8% increase in revenue last year to SFr 235m ($US 235m) compared with SFr 203m in 2017, while profit rose by SFr 1.9m to SFr 5.4m.

March 4, 2019 | Signalling

Smartrail 4.0 - a smarter way to boost capacity

Finding ways of boosting traffic on an intensively-used network sounds like a challenging task, but Switzerland’s new Smartrail 4.0 traffic management system aims to achieve exactly that, reports Anitra Green.

November 26, 2018 | Signalling

Stadler to install Guardia ETCS Level 2 on BLS Flirt fleet

STADLER will install its Guardia ETCS Level 2 system developed with the AngelStar joint venture on the new fleet of Flirt trains to be delivered to Swiss operator BLS, the first major deployment of the system in Switzerland.

September 26, 2018 | Financial

Encouraging first-half growth for BLS

SWISS rail company BLS earned operating revenue of SFr 553.9m ($US 572m) in the first half of this year, 7.5% more than the SFr 515.4m earnings from the same period last year.

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