SWITZERLAND

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(this is just a small selection - more standard gauge images here)

 

2005

  Thun

6 June 2005

SBB Cargo Am 843 (a MAK 1700 series loco) shunts the freight sidings at Thun station.

2004

  Approaching Ostermundigen

14 May 2004

The tracks are humming as a lash-up of Re 460s on a heavy freight thunders through Wankdorffeld en route to Thun.

2003

  Kerzers

23 March 2003

Steam special pulls into Kerzers as more modern motive power waits for the right away. The signal box in the background dates from 1896 and was the oldest example still operating in Switzerland, becoming a museum after its closure in 2004.

2002

  Geneve

19 September 2002

Re 460 in advertising livery Flugzug departing Geneva main station at the rear of its train bound for Geneva Airport. Who would have thought that an advertising livery on a locomotive would be the last you'd see of Swissair...

2001

  Bern Hauptbahnhof

April 2001

An Re 4/4 in traditional BLS brown livery waits at Berne main station for a connecting train to Interlaken.

2000

  Huttwil

13 August 2000

One of the 5 Re 436 (Re 4/4) owned by the private railway company Regionalverkehr Mittelland RM (absorbed into the BLS in 2006), showing off its colourful livery (drawn up by the well-known designer Colani) while laying over at Huttwil depot.

1999

  Stettlen

October 1999

Multiple unit in Swisscom advertising livery leaving Stettlen on the narrow-gauge RBS line from Worb to Bern.

1997

  Flamatt

8 February 1997

Driver's eye view from the control panels of RBDe 4/4 EMU no. 29-35 918 stopping at Flamatt with the 15:24 local service from Fribourg to Bern, while another RBDe 4/4 is approaching the station.


Photos are (c) Adrian Wymann
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