A renowned violinist has been left devastated after his cherished violin, worth more than 1.5 million francs ($1.47m), was stolen on a train passing through Geneva last week.
A Swiss politician has said that MPs should only receive a second-class rail pass instead of a first-class pass in order to reduce the burden on the federal budget.
A couple suffered every parent’s nightmare on Tuesday when they were left standing on a train platform as their train departed without them – with their newborn baby on board.
Local officials have searched a Liechtenstein home belonging to the attacker who started a fire on a Swiss train and stabbed passengers near Salez station on Saturday, police said on Monday.
Should there be tighter security on Swiss trains? That’s the question that is preoccupying the country after an assailant set fire to a train carriage and stabbed passengers at Salez on Saturday afternoon.
A man who witnessed the stabbing and fire attack on a passenger train in eastern Switzerland on Saturday has spoken of his experience, as police say the motive for the attack is still unclear.
Police have launched “extensive investigations” after a train crashed into a tourist bus on Friday night in Interlaken, in the canton of Bern, injuring 17.
Swiss federal railways (SBB) is warning passengers to expect delays and cancellations to France-bound services over the next few days due to a mass rail strike by French rail workers.
Train travellers buying tickets at Zurich SBB station are being warned to watch out for a new scam in operation at several automatic ticket machines in the city.
Testing of the new Gotthard base tunnel, set to become the world’s longest tunnel when it opens next year, will start in October, the construction firm has confirmed.
Work is set to begin in May next year on a 130-million-franc ($134-million) streetcar line in the city of Zurich after voters approved funding from the canton.
A photo showing Swiss President Didier Burkhalter waiting for a train at Neuchâtel station, alone and without bodyguards, made waves on Twitter on Thursday, receiving 800 retweets around the world.
Efforts remained underway on Thursday to retrieve one of the carriages of a passenger train that derailed in eastern Switzerland following a landslide injuring 11 people, five seriously.
Swiss authorities are being investigated for the alleged mistreatment of a pregnant Syrian refugee passing through Switzerland whose baby was subsequently stillborn.
At 2pm on Friday train drivers across the country sounded their horns in remembrance of their 24-year-old colleague who died in Monday’s collision of two trains.
