Federal authorities have backed down from a decision ordering Swiss Federal Railways to remove some of the tactile floor lines installed to guide the blind in Zurich’s underground train station.
Advocates for the blind are crying foul after federal officials ordered the removal of certain tactile guide paths in Zurich’s new underground train station.
Users of Swiss trains are bracing for new schedules starting this weekend as the 2016 timetable kicks in, marking the most sweeping changes in more than a decade.
Regional rail traffic was expected to remain disrupted until Monday noon on the Gotthard railway following a rockslide on the trans-Alpine line linking northern Switzerland to the southern canton of Ticino.
In a bid to improve punctuality, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has launched a pilot project where long-distance trains arriving at a station do not wait for connecting trains.
Shopping for supermarket items by smartphone and picking them up at the train station half an hour later is now possible under a pilot project introduced on Tuesday in the Zurich region.
Police in the canton of Saint Gallen on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old British man for assaulting a conductor after being thrown off a train for not having a ticket.
Train manufacturer Bombardier and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) on Monday unveiled a model of the new double-decker passenger trains the state-owned rail operator ordered five years ago for two billion francs ($2.15 billion).
The new timetable for Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) to be introduced in December represents the biggest change in the network’s schedule in more than a decade, the state-owned rail operator said on Tuesday.
Reporting on suicides committed by people jumping in front of a train is a taboo subject in Switzerland but Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) this week opened a public debate in a bid to reduce the death toll.
Five hundred passengers from an Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) train were evacuated on Sunday afternoon after a landslide in the canton of Fribourg cut rail traffic between Bern and Lausanne.
Switzerland’s rail system remains the best in Europe when considering a range of measures to evaluate performance, a report issued by a management consultant on Tuesday said.
Passenger rail traffic will remain disrupted for several days on the Lausanne-Yverdon route in the canton of Vaud following the derailment of a freight train carrying hazardous goods at the weekend, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said on Sunday.
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) pledged on Thursday not to raise train fares this year following positive results for 2014 with higher ridership and increased profit.
A collision between two Swiss trains northwest of Zurich on February 20th that injured six people was caused by a regional train (S-Bahn) that failed to respect a stop signal, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said on Friday.
UPDATED: Two trains slammed into each other in the Swiss town of Rafz, northwest of Zurich, early on Friday, leaving passengers injured and train carriages upturned, police and media said.
An environmental mobility association is petitioning Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and the federal Transport Minister Doris Leuthard to restore overnight trains to international destinations.
The Gotthard base tunnel, the longest train tunnel in the world, is on track to open in exactly two years, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) announced on Thursday.
An investigation is under way after seven cows were killed following a collision with a Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) passenger train in the canton of Glaris.
