I have noticed an advert on the SBB Historic website for a railtour on 1 August with the RAe TEE from Bern to Lugano. Unfortunately my German is not good...
Two years after merger, all passenger vehicles are painted to the new design and operation has been reorganized with Bahn 2000 timetable (trains from Zürich...
Perhaps the link to this picture might also be interesting for the Lausanne enthusiasts among you: http://www.bahnarchiv.ch/ph_rsimg002.asp?IPTC_FileName=18 ...
The Zurcher Museumsbahn has acquired the steam train in Bouveret and agreed about assistance in selling (at a symbolic price!) the remaining three former "SBB...
Not quite off topic, but instructive. Yesterday I went to photograph the local Bundeswehr locomotive. It was engaged in shredding (Häcksling) activities well...
OOps - send got actvitated before I had finished - try again. Not quite off topic, but I admit only just relevant. Yesterday I went to photograph the local...
Richard Bowen wrote:
> The SBB locomotives were a pair of 482s northbound with 481.002 dead
> at the tail and 481.022 southbound.
481 (ex MThB) is not...
Hi ... I think these is meaning for works belong the railway line. For better composting it is somethimes need to shredder the wood. A pic of a little shredder...
Yes indeed the term shredding is used on at least one preserved railway in Britain to describe the process of turning the trimmed branches or shrubs into...
... Re 481 001 thru 006 exist. They have only two pantographs but for the rest they are hard to distinguish from Re 482. Was it one of these? Re 482 022-1 Re...
Hi, In a local paper I read about the proposal to close the route from Sissach to Olten due to lack of patronage. Also the proposal by the Winterthur...
Greetings, I'm looking for photos of the Rheinfelden station, preferably from 30 years ago but photos of the station as it appears today would be fine. I ...
... This is a never ending story. Train services have always been fragile. I believe that passenger services were only restored in recent years after a period...
J.J. McVeigh wrote:
> I believe that there are some pictures in the second grouping at
> <http://www.seilbahn-nostalgie.ch/geschichte.html> that may be
>...
I case anyone still doesn't appreciate the history of the line under discussion. We are talking about the 'old' Hauenstein route, which was the original main...
... under ... believe ... I acknowledge the fact that the history of the Sissach - Läufelfingen - Olten line has been one full of threats of closure ever...
Malcolm Hardy-Randall wrote:
> .... However, what intrigued
> me was the proposal to convert the route into a steam operated line
> with regular services....
gordonwis wrote:
> The line was traditionally identifiable
> in the Swiss Kursbuch by being the line shown as 'Olten -
> Laufelfingen - Sissach'.
And...
... proposition ... It ... Of course this type of proposal depends very much on getting the money. Winterthur is not exactly bedded on roses and some external ...
We are talking about the 'old' Hauenstein route, which ... believe ... Hauenstein ... Robert Stephenson, together with his associate Swinburne, indeed wrote a...
... Mar ... Hoooray! :) thanks for the heads up, out of interest theres is a reference to telling where the loc is, and wondered how you find out. I have been...
I learned, that two (of the three) former SBB-Leichtstahlwagen will be taken over by a (to be founded) club and will be based at Lyss. The third coach, being...
According to SBB Info there is no more supplement on Tageskarte zum Halbtaxabo and Tageskarte Gemeinde in peak traffic of MatterhornGotthardBahn. Urs...
Monitors with information on all the trains leaving from or arriving in big Swiss stations have become quite common. They allow you to display a free text, e....
Off topic slightly I know but when we visit Switzerland in a three weeks time, we want to ride and photograph Basle's last trolleybus route (31?). It's the...
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