THE first Stadler RABe 501 Giruno inter-city EMU for Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) began dynamic testing at the VUZ Velim test centre in the Czech Republic on July 24.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Southeastern Railway (SOB), Switzerland’s third largest railway, for the operation of two of its long-distance services under a co-branding arrangement.

TRAVELLERS in Switzerland will soon be able to access the entire public transport system using electronic tickets distributed via a new smartphone app with payment taken at the conclusion of the journey under the post-price ticketing (PPT) system.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has become the 11th member of Europe’s Eulynx Initiative which was formed in 2014 by railways and infrastructure managers to standardise signalling architecture and interfaces.

IRJ at IAF 2017, Münster: Harsco is showing its first electro-diesel bi-mode vehicle at the International Exhibition for Track Technology (IAF) in Münster.

STADLER presented the first of 29 Giruno 250km/h electric trains to Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) at a ceremony in Bussnang on May 18 attended by the president of the Swiss Confederation, Ms Doris Leuthard, and the CEO of SBB Mr Andreas Meyer.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) announced on May 3 that it is planning to invest around SFr 300m ($US 303m) in the mid-life refurbishment of its fleet of 341 IC2000 double-deck inter-city coaches, which were originally supplied by a consortium of Bombardier and Alstom between1997 and 2004.

SWITZERLAND’s second-largest railway BLS says it is still pushing for a concession to operate long-distance services beyond its own network, despite the recent failure of talks with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) on the future of domestic inter-city services.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) can look back on a successful year in 2016 with records in several areas: passenger journeys rose by 3.5% to 1.25 million per day, total freight traffic was up by 9.9% to 16.6 billion tonne-km, and the network was more intensively used than ever before.

THE CEO of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) Mr Andreas Meyer and the president of French National Railways (SNCF) Mr Guillaume Pepy signed an agreement in Paris on March 9 regarding the joint operation of cross-border regional passenger services in the Geneva area.