Swiss Federal Railways - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swiss Federal Railways (short: SBB, German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses (CFF), Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere (FFS), Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras (VFS)) is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is also called SBB CFF FFS. The company was founded in 1902.
The company headquarters is in Bern.
In the Zurich-Bern-Basel triangle, travel times between the cities is under one hour.
SBB also operates international EuroCity and EuroNight trains in Switzerland.
Trains
[change | change source]SBB currently owns 15 Trains that are in service.
EC and IC operated trains
[change | change source]Name | Top Speed |
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SBB Giruno | 250 km/h |
Astoro | 250 km/h |
Other websites
[change | change source]- The SBB website (in German)
- The SBB website (in English)
- The SBB cargo website Archived 2004-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
- The CityNightLine website Archived 2004-08-24 at the Wayback Machine