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SBB Historic is a foundation aiming at preserving historical documents and artefacts from the history of Swiss railway transportation. It was founded by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 2001 and it is based in
Shortly after it was founded in 1902, the Swiss Federal Railways planned to build a railway museum in order to make the existing historically valuable vehicles and other railway artefacts accessible to the public. After lengthy discussions, a small railway museum was opened in 1918 in the service building of the Zurich freight yard on Hohlstrasse. As the interest for a national transport museum became apparent in the 1950s, the SBB participated in the foundation of the
Official website
{{Coord, 47.4754, 8.2059, type:landmark_region:CH, display=title Swiss Federal Railways Heritage railways in Switzerland
SBB Historic is a foundation aiming at preserving historical documents and artefacts from the history of Swiss railway transportation. It was founded by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 2001 and it is based in Windisch
Windisch may refer to:
* Windisch (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
* Windisch, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Aargau
* Windisch (ethnonym), German word Wends for Slavs
* Windisch Kamnitz, German name of Srbská Ka ...
.
The Foundation's services essentially include:
*A library containing over 30,000 mediums/documents and 300 journals on the subject of railways
*Visits to the archives
*Various events and exhibitions (for instance at the Gotthard Base Tunnel
, rm, Tunnel da basa dal Sogn Gottard
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, image_size = 250
, caption = Turnout at Faido multifunction station
, line = Gotthard Line
, location = Switzerland (Uri, Grisons and ...
inauguration in 2016)
*Trips on historic rolling stock
History
Shortly after it was founded in 1902, the Swiss Federal Railways planned to build a railway museum in order to make the existing historically valuable vehicles and other railway artefacts accessible to the public. After lengthy discussions, a small railway museum was opened in 1918 in the service building of the Zurich freight yard on Hohlstrasse. As the interest for a national transport museum became apparent in the 1950s, the SBB participated in the foundation of the Swiss Museum of Transport
The Swiss Museum of Transport or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (literally "Transportation House of Switzerland") in Lucerne opened in July 1959 and exhibits all forms of transport including trains, automobiles, ships and aircraft as well as communicati ...
, which was finally inaugurated in Lucerne
Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic German, High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other languages: gsw, Lozärn, label=Lucerne German; it, Lucerna ; rm, Lucerna . is a city in central Switzerland, in the Languages of Switzerland, German-speaking po ...
in 1959.
The maintenance of the functionality of the vehicles was mainly the responsibility of the main railway workshops and locomotive depots of the SBB. There the locomotives and wagons were maintained by the workshop staff and the train drivers, in some cases through voluntary work.
The transformation of the Swiss Federal Railways into a stock corporation in 1999 initiated a far-reaching restructuring process. In the course of concentrating on core competencies and cost optimization, SBB established the private law foundation "Historisches Erbe der SBB", commonly referred as to "SBB Historic" in English, in 2001.
In 2015, SBB Historic moved from Bern into the building of the former SBB material warehouse on the south side of Brugg
, neighboring_municipalities = Gebenstorf, Habsburg, Hausen, Holderbank, Lupfig, Riniken, Rüfenach, Schinznach, Untersiggenthal, Villigen, Villnachern, Veltheim, Windisch
, twintowns = Rottweil (Germany)
, website ...
train station.
See also
*List of stock used by Swiss Federal Railways
The followling is an incomplete list of locomotives and multiple units used by the Swiss Federal Railways.
Steam locomotives
Steam railcars
Electric locomotives
Electric trainsets
Electric railcars
Diesel locomotives
Diesel ...
(includes historic rolling stock)
*List of heritage railways and funiculars in Switzerland
This is a list of heritage railways in Switzerland. For convenience, the list includes any pre-World War II railway in the large sense of the term (either adhesion railway, rack railway or funicular) currently operated with at least several origi ...
References
External links
*Official website
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