List of railway companies in Switzerland
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The following is a list of railway companies which operate routes on Swiss territory.


Standard gauge

The following is a complete list of all railway companies which operate routes on Swiss territory. It also includes routes of foreign railway companies (e.g. Deutsche Bahn), but not routes of Swiss companies in neighbouring countries. Not included are railway companies which do not operate their own routes (e.g.
Cisalpino Cisalpino AG () was a railway company, referred to as CIS in timetables, operating international trains between Switzerland and Italy connecting Basel, Schaffhausen, Zürich, Geneva, Milan, Venice, Trieste, Livorno, and Florence. The company ...
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Hupac Hupac is a railway company in Switzerland. Hupac's Shuttle Net has 110 intermodal trains per day across Europe. Hupac also offers a rolling highway from Basel to Lugano. In 2009, volumes carried fell by 13.5%, to 607,284 road shipments; but pro ...
or the former Lokoop) as well as operators of short connecting goods lines. If there is no abbreviation shown, it means that this company always appears with its full name.


Companies in operation today (standard gauge)


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Tramways

* BLT
Baselland Transport Baselland Transport AG (BLT) is a Swiss public transport operator in the cantons of Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Solothurn and in France. The BLT was founded in 1974, and is owned by the Canton of Basel-Land, located to the south of the city. It ...
AG (Basel) * BVB
Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) is a public transport operator in the Switzerland, Swiss city of Basel, and is wholly owned by canton of Basel-Stadt, which consists of city of Basel and the municipalities of Bettingen and Riehen. The BVB was f ...
(Basel) * RiT Riffelalptram (Zermatt) * SVB BERNMOBIL Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern (Bern) * TN
Transports publics du littoral neuchatelois Transports may refer to: * Military transport aircraft * a Ministry of Transport * Dow Jones Transportation Average * ''The Transports'', a folk ballad opera written by Peter Bellamy See also

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(Neuchâtel) * TPG
Transports Publics Genevois Geneva Public Transport (french: Transports publics genevois, TPG) operates most of the public transportation system in canton of Geneva, Switzerland, including the city of Geneva. The agency's head office is in Grand-Lancy, Lancy. The TPG ...
(Geneva)


Closed or merged

* ABB Altstätten-Berneck-Bahn (later ''RhStB'') * AF Strassenbahn Altdorf-Flüelen (closed 26 March 1951) * CBV Tramway Chillon-Byron-Villeneuve (later ''VMCV'') * ESZ Elektrische Strassenbahnen im Kanton Zug (closed 21 May 1955) * MRA Trambahn Meiringen-Reichenbach-Aareschlucht (closed 16 September 1956) * RhStB Rheintalische Strassenbahn (later ''RhV'') * RhV Rheintalische Verkehrsbetriebe (closed 2 June 1973) * SSS Strassenbahn Schwyz-Seewen (later ''SStB'') * SStB Schwyzer Strassenbahnen (closed 15 December 1963) * StrStM Strassenbahn St. Moritz (closed 18 September 1932) * SchSt Schaffhauser Strassenbahn (closed 6 March 1970) * StSS Strassenbahn Schaffhausen-Schleitheim (closed 1 October 1964) * StSt Strassenbahn Stansstad-Stans (closed) * StStW Städtische Strassenbahn Winterthur (closed 2 November 1951) * STI Steffisburg-Thun-Interlaken (closed 31 May 1958) * STL Tramway Locarno (closed 30 April 1960) * SVB Spiezer Verbindungsbahn (closed 25 September 1960) * (TB) Tramway Bellavista (closed 31 October 1913) * TC Tramway de La Chaux-de-Fonds (closed 15 June 1950) * TEL Tram Lugano (closed 17 December 1959) * TEM Tram Mendrisio (closed 31 December 1950) * TF Tramway de Fribourg (closed 1 April 1965) * TL Tramways lausannois (closed 6 January 1964) * TP Tramway-funiculaire Trait-Planches (closed 11 November 1912) * TrB Tramway de Bienne/Biel (closed 9 December 1948) * TrL Tram Luzern (closed 11 November 1961) * TrMB Tramway Martigny-Bourg (closed 31 December 1956) * TStG Trambahn der Stadt St. Gallen (closed 1 October 1957) * UOeB Uster-Oetwil-Bahn (closed 10 January 1949) * VMC Tramway Vevey-Montreux-Chillon (later ''VMCV'') * VMCV
Tramway Vevey-Montreux-Chillon-Villeneuve Tramway may refer to: * Tramway (industrial), a lightly laid railway for uses such as logging or mining * A tram transport system (public transport vehicles running on rails) ** The tracks which trams run on (also a section of reserved track for t ...
(closed 19 January 1958) * WMB Wetzikon-Meilen-Bahn (closed 13 May 1950) * ZBB Zuger Berg- und Strassenbahn (closed 10 May 1959)


See also

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Rail transport in Switzerland The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-alp freight system. This is made necessary by strong regulations ...
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History of rail transport in Switzerland :''This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series.'' The construction and operation of Swiss railways during the 19th century was carried out by private railways. The first internal line was a 16 km line opened from Z ...
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List of railway companies This is an incomplete list of the world's railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. This list includes companies operating both now and in the past. In some countries, the railway operating bodies are not compani ...
* Mountain railways in Switzerland * Rack railways in Switzerland


References


External links


Jane's World Railways
(hard copy) {{DEFAULTSORT:Railway Companies In Switzerland
Companies A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared go ...
Switzerland
Railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...