Many of the 33 people injured on Monday when a train engine collided with carriages at Andermatt station were schoolchildren, police and media reports said.
Rail services were disrupted for several hours in the Interlaken region of canton Bern after a train hit a car stuck on a crossing point on Tuesday afternoon.
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.
The total number of deaths from public transport accidents in Switzerland shot up to 41 in 2014, an increase of 11 from the previous year, official figures released on Tuesday show.
UPDATE: The rail line linking Lucerne and the canton of Ticino via the Gotthard tunnel was closed on Wednesday morning following the collision of two construction trains that left one man dead and one injured, police said.
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.
Neuchâtel cantonal authorities are investigating the death of a 75-year-old man who was struck by a regional passenger train while cycling in a level crossing on Monday.
Five passengers were seriously injured when a landslide derailed a train in a mountainous area of the canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland on Wednesday, following heavy rain in the region.
Media in Israel have identified the three Israelis who died on Monday when a Zentralbahn train crashed into a minibus at a level crossing in the canton of Nidwalden.
(UPDATE) Three Israeli tourists died and five others were seriously injured on Monday morning when a passenger train collided with a minibus in the canton of Nidwalden in central Switzerland, cantonal police said.
A 17-year-old Swiss au pair who died in a bizarre subway accident in Madrid, Spain last year was at the controls of the train when it crashed, a media report says.
An unidentified motorist died late Wednesday when a train coming from Italy slammed into the driver’s car after it strayed onto railway tracks in the canton of Valais.
A crane fell onto a Swiss passenger train entering a Zurich station Saturday, causing massive material damage but miraculously leaving only one person slightly injured, police said Saturday.
Fribourg cantonal police issued an appeal on Monday for witnesses following the death of an elderly expat at the train station in Romont, a small town northeast of Lausanne.
<p>Swiss experts have warned that a bear that first appeared in the Lower Engadine region, may become more dangerous after it was hit by train on Monday evening travelling from Scuol to Samedan. </p>
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