Railroads of
Switzerland

1. Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen SBB
   Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses CFF
   Le Ferrovie federali svizzere FFS
   Swiss State Railways.
   
   
2. CJ - Chemins de fer du Jura
   The network of the Railroads of the Jura (CJ) is in the North-West of Switzerland. It essentially serves the plateau of the Frank-Mountains and the Porrentruy section - Bonfol en Ajoie. Porrentruy, Glovelier, Tavannes and La Chaux-de-Fonds constitute the stations of access to the network of the CJ.
   
   
   
3. SOB - Südostbahn
   South Tirol railways
   
   
   
4. Glacier Express
   Travel on the famous Swiss mountain railways from St.Moritz to Zermatt and vice versa or from Piz Bernina to the Matterhorn. A 7 1/2 hour railway journey across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp. Pass at 2’033 metres in altitude. A panoramic trip through the Alps in the heart of Switzerland. The Glacier Express travels a beautiful route between the sights of the Graubünden holiday region, central Switzerland, including Lake Lucerne and Lucerne itself, the sunny Valais region with its glacier landscape, and the beautiful regions of the South.
   
   
5. FLP - Ferrovie Luganesi
   The Ferrovia Lugano-Ponte Tresa (FLP) Railway runs 12km from Lugano to Ponte Tresa.
   
   
6. MBC - Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay
   The Bière–Apples–Morges Railway (BAM) or Chemin de fer Bière-Apples-Morges, is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway with a total length of almost 30 kilometres (19 mi) which links the towns in its name and from a junction at Apples to the village of L’Isle. The company was renamed to Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay (MBC) to express its other activities, mainly in local and regional bus services.
   
   
   
7. RHB - The Rhaetian Railway
   Rhätische Bahn - Ferrovia Retica - Viafier Retica, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland. the RhB operates all the railway lines of the Swiss canton of Grisons, except for the line from Sargans to the cantonal capital, Chur, which are operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), as well as the line from Disentis/Mustér to the Oberalp Pass and further on to Andermatt, Uri, which is operated by Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB). The Rhaetian Railway serves a number of major tourist destinations, such as St. Moritz and Davos. One of the RhB lines, the Bernina Railway, crosses the Bernina Pass at 2,253 metres (7,392 ft) above sea level and runs down to Tirano, Lombardy in Italy.
   
   
8. Centovalli Railway
   Railway connecting Locarno (Gotthard line) in Switzerland to Domodossola /Simplon line) in Italy
   
   
9. BOB - Bernese Oberland Railway (Switzerland)
   The Bernese Oberland Railway (BOB) connects Interlaken, (Interlaken Ost railway station) with Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen. Two train compositions are usually coupled together to travel to Zweilütschinen where they are then split. One train travels to Grindelwald, the other to Lauterbrunnen.
   
   
10. Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn
    Zurich commuter rail line
    
    
    
11. NStCM - Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez Railway
    The Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez Railway, French: Chemin de fer Nyon–Saint-Cergue–Morez, is a narrow gauge railway in western Switzerland which nowadays operates between Nyon, on the northern shore of Lake Geneva and the French border at La Cure, the La Cure–Morez section having closed in 1958.
    
    
    
12. Schynige Platte Railway (Switzerland)
    The Schynige Platte Railway climbs 1420 metres over a distance of 7.255 km, on its journey from Wilderswil up to Schynige Platte, famous as one of the best vantage points in the whole region.
    
    
13. Jungfrau Railway
    The Jungfrau Railway, the pioneer of all mountain railways, began operating an all-year-round service from Kleine Scheidegg to the Jungfraujoch in 1912. The mountain terminus is the Jungfraujoch, altitude 3454 metres, where two underground station halls house Europe's highest altitude railway station.
    
    
14. Le Chemin de Fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher
    Commuter rail line
    
    
    
15. Region Alpes
    Railroad of 146 km connecting St-Gingolph to Brigue via Entremont.
    
    
    

  
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