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Swiss Federal Railways facts for kids

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Re 450 100-3 zwischen Winterthur - Zürich
Re 450 between Winterthur and Zurich is one of the most important trains using in S-Bahn Zurich

Swiss Federal Railways (short: SBB, German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses (CFF), Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere (FFS), Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras (VFS)) is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is also called SBB CFF FFS. The company was founded in 1902.

The company headquarters is in Bern.

In the Zurich-Bern-Basel triangle, travel times between the cities is under one hour.

SBB also operates international EuroCity and EuroNight trains in Switzerland.

Images for kids

  • Correspondance of trains at Geneva

    Example of integrated timetables between inter-regional and regional services on the Swiss network. The two trains are programmed to meet in the hub of Geneva at 15:30, sharing a platform, to minimise transfer times.

  • BahnhofsuhrZuerich RZ

    Swiss railway clock

  • Inside train

    The inside of an IC 2000 train

  • Sbb cff ffs

    A SBB CFF FFS train

  • InterCity-Neigezug zwischen Winterthur - Zürich

    ICN between Zurich and Winterthur

  • Map Languages CH

    Distribution of Languages in Switzerland

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Ferrocarriles Federales Suizos para niños

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