Railroads of
Switzerland

1. Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen SBB
   Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses CFF
   Le Ferrovie federali svizzere FFS
   Swiss State Railways.
   
   
2. Centovalli Railway
   Railway connecting Locarno (Gotthard line) in Switzerland to Domodossola /Simplon line) in Italy
   
   
3. zb Die Zentralbahn
   Commuter rail line connecting Luzern - Interlaken & Engelberg
   
   
4. FLP - Ferrovie Luganesi
   The Ferrovia Lugano-Ponte Tresa (FLP) Railway runs 12km from Lugano to Ponte Tresa.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
7. Le Chemin de Fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher
   Commuter rail line
   
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
   
9. WAB - The Wengernalp Railway (Switzerland)
   Die Wengernalpbahn, the world's longest continuous cogwheel railway, connects Lauterbrunnen, Kleine Scheidegg and Grindelwald.
   At peak periods, additional trains can be put into operation following at short intervals behind the scheduled train, allowing capacity to be optimised according to demand. This demands an extremely flexible organization procedure and of course enormous care and attention with regard to dispatching trains. Trains do not travel directly from Lauterbrunnen over to Grindelwald. For safety reasons, regulations state that the electrified railcar must always be positioned at the lower end of the train, and so train compositions do not usually cross Kleine Scheidegg. However, a triangular junction specially built into the mountainside at Kleine Scheidegg allows the train to be turned if necessary so that it can also be used on the other side of the pass. The busiest stretch of railway runs from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen and this is also used to transport goods to traffic-free Wengen. The original railway tracks still run parallel to the new tracks on part of this stretch. However since the introduction of the latest freight locomotives - which travel as fast as passenger trains - they are seldom used.
   
   
10. 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.
    
    
11. BLS AG
    BLS AG is a Swiss railway company created by the 2006 merger of BLS Lötschbergbahn and Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG. Since the merger, BLS has been the exclusive operator of the standard gauge part of the S-Bahn Bern. This includes open access services over Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and STB Sensetalbahn tracks. Since December 2007 BLS offers a new RegioExpress service over the old Lötschberg route while most SBB and Cisalpino, InterCity, and EuroCity trains use the new Lötschberg tunnel.
    
    
12. Region Alpes
    Railroad of 146 km connecting St-Gingolph to Brigue via Entremont.
    
    
    
13. Thurbo
    Regional swiss railway
    
    
    
14. 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.
    
    
    
15. 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.
    
    

  
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