Found on another site: I take it this is restricted in some way to local inhabitants and would not be available for tourists? From '24 Heures' newspaper: LES...
... It is indeed restricted to local inhabitants. What happens is many local communities in Switzerland, just like some companies, buy these yearly passes...
Only political communities are allowed to buy one (or more) ticketbook(s) of Tageskarte Gemeinde. Each comunity decides itself about - the price (about 35 CHF)...
Gordon One or two Cantons or villages used to do something like this. I do not think it was restricted to residents only, but residents might get priority. We...
The question was " Does Basel have a SNCF ticket office? The answer is Yes or it did last time I was there. ( it may have got moved during the extensive re...
<<> ... quick answer: no>> They do have ticket machines. They are only in French and would not accept my Canadian issued credit cards. Regards Michael Taylor ...
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:04:22 -0500, Michael Taylor in Canada ... Could these ticket machines be used to obtain tickets bought on the SNCF website? Krist -- ...
... (...) ... Hello, I got the report that the brown SOB-Ae476 012 was at Samstagern yesterday. It would be interesting to know if this loco has been replaced...
I was reading an article about rails used by US railroads today and it got me thinking about those used by SBB. Here in the US the current standard is 141 RE...
Hi John, I think a lot of rail comes from Austria (Donawitz), or at least used to. This may no longer be the case, don't know for sure. Martin, Germany....
Hi All Am new to this group and have been lurking awhile, reading the archive. but today when went for my daily dose of SBB webcam, it wasnt there. I have...
... Trains normally run on the left, but many lines are now signalled for bi-directional running, so you will see trains on either tracks, and I must admit the...
John I can't speak for the SBB, but the RhB gets all it's rail from the VOEST Plant in Donawitz, Austria. This has been so for at least since the late 1960s. ...
... According to the MySwitzerland.com site, specifically the webcam, there's a message which says, "Unfortunately the webcam is currently not operating. We...
... The last ... service. Not only that , but the I seem to remember the amusing scene of the last web picture before it went for service was a picture showing...
... wrote: [snip] ... Thanks John and others for your replies. Yes when I saw it on a video I thought I must be seeing things.. is this to get more capacity on...
... wasnt ... to ... Today I visited the site of the webcam. It seems it went down because of a lot of spam. This is what it says: SORRY! Aber wegen...
The latest Swiss timetable gives the distance of this trip as 164KM. I assume there are fairly severe speed limits at both ends of the trip. Can anyone advise...
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:21:24 -0000, its_all_downhill ... Don't forget, when looking at the pictures from the locomotive mounted webcam, that quite often you're...
The highspeed line is only Mattstetten-Rothrist (near Berne and near Olten), but even there the planned speed of 200 kmh cannot be reached as signalisation in...
Bit too quick with the send key there. I meant to add that more in the increased capacity line is the ability for a freight to overtake a local passenger while...
... landscape... Agreed, but then the writer would/should have made clear...-:)) ISA ________________________________________________________________________ ...