Peter’s work will be familiar to regular viewers/readers of the blog for his contribution of his railway images and more recently his bus images.
For the last 6 months he has provided all the railway images that have appeared on the blog and a good number before that.
Whilst all of his images so far have been of UK railways, there was a time when he spent many holidays in Switzerland recording the ‘Scene’ there.
I thought that some of those images might be of interest to a wider audience so here goes.
Switzerland has a wide mixture of railways from the the State and Canton funded large operators down to the small private railways that sometimes have only one vehicle.
Further variety is provided by much wider use of narrow gauge lines than in the UK.
The main operator is the state funded SBB. (Swiss State Railways).
With Switzerland being a multi lingual country, the same wording is used in French, CFF (Chemin de Fer Federal) and Italian FFS (Ferrovia Federale Svizzera).
Mainly standard gauge, the company owns one metre gauge line.
Into the late 20th. Century, it was still possible to see elderly electric locos working on the system.
Swiss class Ae 4/7, SBB-CFF-FFS No. 11025. Electric locomotive built by SLM, and SAAS on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SLM: ‘Schweizerische Locomotiv und Maschinenfabrik’, SAAS: ‘Societe Anonyme des Ateliers de Secheron’.
Built 1927-1934.
Class size 127 units.
The 4/7 indicates 4 driving axles plus 3 carrying axles.
Pictured at St Gallen 31/7/92.
Swiss class Re 4/4ii SBB-CFF-FFS No. 11215. Bo-Bo Electric locomotive
built by SLM, BBC, MFO and SAAS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SLM: ‘Schweizerische Locomotiv und Maschinenfabrik’, BBC: Brown Boveri & Cie and MFO: Maschinen Fabrik Oerlikon and SAAS ‘Societe Anonyme des Ateliers de Secheron’.
Built 1964 1967-1985.
Class size, 277 units.
Pictured at Luzern 28/7/1994.
Swiss class Re 4/4i SBB-CFF-FFS No. 10020. Bo-Bo Electric locomotive built by SLM, BBC, MFO and SAAS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SLM: ‘Schweizerische Locomotiv und Maschinenfabrik’, BBC: Brown Boveri & Cie and MFO: Maschinen Fabrik Oerlikon and SAAS ‘Societe Anonyme des Ateliers de Secheron’.
Built 1946-1948 and 1952-1953
Class size, 26 units in the first batch and 24 units in the second.
Picture at Lausanne 25/7/88.
Swiss class Ae 6/6, SBB-CFF-FFS No. 11408 ‘Solothurn’. Co-Co Electric locomotive built by SLM, BBC, MFO
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SLM: ‘Schweizerische Locomotiv und Maschinenfabrik’, BBC: Brown Boveri & Cie and MFO: Maschinen Fabrik Oerlikon.
The first 2 were built in 1952-53
Series production was built 1955-1966.
Class size, 120 units.
Generally used on heavy trains particularly over the steeply graded Gotthard and Simplon lines into Italy.
Pictured on 19/9/90.at Erstfeld at the Northern end of the Gotthard where there is a depot.
Swiss class 460 SBB-CFF-FFS No. 460-112-6 ‘Thurtal’. Bo-Bo Electric locomotive built by SLM and ABB
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SLM: ‘Schweizerische Locomotiv und Maschinenfabrik’, ABB: Asea Brown Boveri
Built 1991-1996.
Class size, 121.
Pictured at Luzern -/10/2010.
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